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Pigeon Shooting; With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those Who Participate in the Sport of Pigeon Shooting

Albert William Money

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...there is the time occupied in making up the mind as to the direction the bird is traveling; then the time occupied in pulling the triggers, the time it takes for the hammer to fall on the striker, for the striker to ignite the primer, the primer to ignite the powder, the gas to form, the charge of shot to get under way and reach the muzzle. All this time the bird has been speeding on; but if your hand and eye are true, you have been swinging your gun with him and covering him, and now, if you give the right amount of lead, you will see him fall to your shot; only be sure that at the moment you press the trigger you do not stop your gun, and so lose your lead. Swing cannot, of course, affect the shot after it has once left the muzzle, but when you are pressing the trigger it has not yet done so, and many more shooters than know it themselves do stop the gun as they press the trigger. Chapter XI. Loading Ammunition for Pigeon Shooting. We will now come to the most important question of shell loading. You may be a magnificent shot, and have the best gun in the world, but if your shells are badly loaded, you will do no really good shooting. All nitro powders require a strong, hot flash to explode them properly. This can be obtained with an ordinary shell which is not intended for use with nitro powder, by putting in a small pinch of fine black powder first, as a priming, and then loading the same as in any other shell especially made for nitro powder, but a shell made especially for nitro powder with a strong primer should always be preferred. All guns are chambered at the breech to take a shell of a special length; but it is now customary to so gradually slope off the shoulder of this chamber, and taper it into the barrel proper, that a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pigeon Shooting; With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those Who Participate in the Sport of Pigeon Shooting. To get started finding Pigeon Shooting; With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those Who Participate in the Sport of Pigeon Shooting, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...there is the time occupied in making up the mind as to the direction the bird is traveling; then the time occupied in pulling the triggers, the time it takes for the hammer to fall on the striker, for the striker to ignite the primer, the primer to ignite the powder, the gas to form, the charge of shot to get under way and reach the muzzle. All this time the bird has been speeding on; but if your hand and eye are true, you have been swinging your gun with him and covering him, and now, if you give the right amount of lead, you will see him fall to your shot; only be sure that at the moment you press the trigger you do not stop your gun, and so lose your lead. Swing cannot, of course, affect the shot after it has once left the muzzle, but when you are pressing the trigger it has not yet done so, and many more shooters than know it themselves do stop the gun as they press the trigger. Chapter XI. Loading Ammunition for Pigeon Shooting. We will now come to the most important question of shell loading. You may be a magnificent shot, and have the best gun in the world, but if your shells are badly loaded, you will do no really good shooting. All nitro powders require a strong, hot flash to explode them properly. This can be obtained with an ordinary shell which is not intended for use with nitro powder, by putting in a small pinch of fine black powder first, as a priming, and then loading the same as in any other shell especially made for nitro powder, but a shell made especially for nitro powder with a strong primer should always be preferred. All guns are chambered at the breech to take a shell of a special length; but it is now customary to so gradually slope off the shoulder of this chamber, and taper it into the barrel proper, that a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pigeon Shooting; With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those Who Participate in the Sport of Pigeon Shooting. To get started finding Pigeon Shooting; With Instructions for Beginners and Suggestions for Those Who Participate in the Sport of Pigeon Shooting, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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