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Download or read book Wild Beasts and Their Ways Vol 1 written by Samuel Baker and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago our troops were armed with a smooth-bore musket, and a small force known as the "Rifle Brigade" was the exception to this rule.The military rifle carried a spherical bullet, and, like all others of the period, it necessitated the use of a mallet to strike the ball, which, being a size larger than the bore, required the blow to force it into the rifling of the barrel in order to catch the grooves.Sporting rifles were of various sizes, but they were constructed upon a principle generally accepted, that extreme accuracy could only be obtained by burning a very small charge of powder.The outfit required a small mallet made of hardwood faced with thick buff leather, a powerful loading-rod, a powder-flask, a pouch to contain greased linen or silk patches; another pouch for percussion caps; a third pouch for bullets. In addition to this cumbersome arrangement, a nipple-screw was carried, lest any stoppage might render necessary the extraction of the nipple.
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Download or read book Wild Beasts and Their Ways Vol 1 written by Samuel White Baker and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: ... Although at this distance considerable accuracy could be attained at the target upon a quiet day, it was difficult to shoot with any precision at an unmeasured range owing to the high trajectory of the bullet. Thus for sporting purposes it was absolutely essential that the hunter should be a first-rate judge of distance in order to adjust the sights as required by the occasion. It was accordingly rare to meet with a good rifle-shot fifty years ago. Rifle-shooting was not the amusement sought by Englishmen, although in Switzerland and Germany it was the ordinary pastime. In those countries the match-rifle was immensely heavy, weighing, in many instances, 16 lbs., although the bullet was exceedingly small.The idea of non-recoil was paramount as necessary to ensure accuracy.It will be at once perceived that the rifle was a most inferior weapon, failing through a low velocity, high trajectory, and weakness of penetration....
Download or read book Wild Beasts and Their Ways written by Sir Samuel White Baker and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charge of powder in ordinary use for a No. 16 bore (which carried an ounce spherical ball) was 1 1/2 dram, and the sights were adjusted for a maximum range of 200 yards. Although at this distance considerable accuracy could be attained at the target upon a quiet day, it was difficult to shoot with any precision at an unmeasured range owing to the high trajectory of the bullet. Thus for sporting purposes it was absolutely essential that the hunter should be a first-rate judge of distance in order to adjust the sights as required by the occasion. It was accordingly rare to meet with a good rifle-shot fifty years ago. Rifle-shooting was not the amusement sought by Englishmen, although in Switzerland and Germany it was the ordinary pastime. In those countries the match-rifle was immensely heavy, weighing, in many instances, 16 lbs., although the bullet was exceedingly small.
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Download or read book Wild Beasts and Their Ways Vol 2 written by Samuel W. Baker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Vol. 2: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America When we have been ourselves eye-witnesses of such a change within the short interval of a few years, it becomes easy to comprehend the disappearance of the hippopotamus during the last thousand or fifteen hundred years. This animal, in like manner with the crocodile, would not migrate suddenly to a distant point, but would gradually recede before advancing civilisation, and would disappear from a district by slow degrees that would hardly be appreciated at the time of its retreat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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