Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property |
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Author:
| Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-48200-4 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $27.90 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to be large enough to give you fair time when you see the swinging object pass. All this I am aware will be ridiculed by some, perhaps by many, but which you need not mind, since you must recollect that, at Target Cottage, I followed that course to make some very steady game shots, nay, even to break, of...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to be large enough to give you fair time when you see the swinging object pass. All this I am aware will be ridiculed by some, perhaps by many, but which you need not mind, since you must recollect that, at Target Cottage, I followed that course to make some very steady game shots, nay, even to break, of bad and sadly fixed habits, some old shots, such as never before could discover what caused their falling off in shooting. You may also remember that I not only suspended small garden-pots by cords, that had small sticks ( toggles, as sailors call them, ) at the ends, and which were passed through the holes of the pot, to swing them from a great height, whilst another thin string reached to a distant servant, who caused the swing to have sudden breaks and changes, such as made it as difficult as to shoot at snipes, and birds playing similar vagaries, and as this practice took place with loaded guns, that we used to count how many pellets each garden-pot had been struck by, these having been coloured for such ends, and the marks being paintedover after every fire, similarly to the artificial birds of my velocity machine here, and which some of the best shots, who first inspected it with smiles, soon found to give them, and very unexpectedly, a heavy task; one, they liberally acknowledged afterwards, as deserving praise instead of ridicule, for they were not aware that several papers had been well received, which many years before I had written, and which appeared in different periodicals, upon this kind of initiation into game-shooting: open to this remark, however, that something important is still left to be accomplished, I mean the overcoming of the surprise which all young sportsmen feel at first at the rising of game; as also the suppressing of the anxiety and flurry oc..