Wrinkles: Or, Hints to Sportsmen and Travellers on Dress, Equipment, and Camp LifeChatto and Windus, 1874 - 294 páginas |
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Página 194 - When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him ; but maintain a correspondence by letters with those of his acquaintance which are of most worth. And let his travel appear rather in his discourse than in his apparel or gesture ; and in his discourse let him be rather advised in his answers, than forward to tell stories...
Página 147 - It gives him a perfect command over his weapon, and enables the eye and hand to act together, so that the left hand raises the rifle at once to bear upon the object, for the eye to take aim ; and at the same moment the fore-finger of the right hand acts upon the trigger. To establish the natural connection between the eye and the hand, constant practice is required ; and the novice should be accustomed to handle his rifle both with and without the bayonet, being put through all the motions of firing...
Página 220 - The deer, like many other animals, seem to foresee every change of weather: at the approach of a storm they leave the higher hills, and descend to the low grounds ; sometimes even two days before the change takes place. Again, at the approach of a thaw, they leave the low grounds and go to the mountains by a similar anticipation of change. They never perish in...
Página 72 - Breech-loaders ehoot quicker 00 mg< than muzzle-loaders, because there is no long communication (the nipple) between the point of ignition and the charge, the explosion of the cap taking place in the centre of the powder, which is inflamed almost simultaneously ; for it is an error to suppose even that gunpowder explodes instantaneously, as, however rapid its progress, it takes a certain time in travelling from the first grain to the last. Foul very ^' Breech-loaders foul very little...
Página 139 - ... so that in its passage through the barrel it is constrained to turn with the grooves, and thus receives the spinning movement on its longer axis, which not only insures accuracy of flight, but also always keeps its point forward. By the bullet being thus expanded, and so much enlarged as to fit the barrel and grooves tightly, none of the explosive power of the gas engendered by the ignition of the charge is allowed to escape, but the whole propelling force acts upon the projectile.
Página 219 - THERE is no animal more shy or •"*'•" •'• m °- solitary by nature than the stag. He takes alarm from every living thing in the forest; the slightest sound, be it only the fall of a leaf or the scratching of a jungle fowl, will scare and set him off in a moment. Except in certain embarrassed situations, they always run up wind, their great security lying in their extreme keenness of scent, for they can smell a taint in the air at an almost incredible distance.
Página 127 - I have seen some of these inferior guns throw shot pretty fairly to begin with, but, after a short time, they invariably fall off both in strength and regularity of shooting, become shaky, and even dangerous ; for the locks (being made of soft metal, instead of the best tempered steel) begin to wear, and are no longer to be depended upon. It is mistaken policy and false False Policy. economy to purchase any other than a first-class gun, which, with ordinary care, will last longer than half-a-dozen...
Página 227 - Inured to peril, he must never be cast-down or faint of heart ; or he had better not attempt to follow up the spoor of the elephant to his haunts in the dense, deep jungle, where the rays of the sun seldom penetrate, and the woodman's axe was never heard — where the deadliest of fevers lurk in places the most beautiful to the eye ; and where, with the exception of certain times in the year, the air and the water are poisoned by malaria. and impregnated by the exhalations of decayed leaves and decomposed...
Página 192 - None want an excuse. If rich, they go to enjoy, if poor, to retrench; if sick, to recover; if studious, to learn ; if learned, to relax from then: studies.
Página 145 - That the line of sight should be taken along 'the centre of the notch of the back-sight and the top of the fore-sight, which should cover the middle of the mark aimed at.