Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries - Edited with an Introduction

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Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries - Edited with an Introduction

Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries - Edited with an Introduction

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Archbold, W. A. J. (2005). "Peter Hawker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/12654 . Retrieved 15 July 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) urn:lcp:diaryofcolonelpe0001hawk:epub:9728177c-44ba-435d-9bf0-90953a3adb4f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier diaryofcolonelpe0001hawk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2bschk1vmg Invoice 1652 Isbn 1853670197 urn:oclc:record:1043301211 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier diaryofcolonelpe01hawk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7hq40d4f Lccn 16022525 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Openlibrary_edition

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-07-20 00:01:05 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40604205 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier There are various pictures of some of Hawker's guns in books published over the years. For a time some were in the W Keith Neal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Keith_Neal Carman, W. Y. (2004) [1955]. A History of Firearms: From Earliest Times to 1914 (Reprinted.). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. p.74. ISBN 978-0-486-43390-5.

The Diary Of Colonel Peter Hawker 1802 1853 Scholar S Choice Edition written by Peter Hawker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-19 with categories.

Kings Of The Trigger - Biographical Sketches Of Four Famous Sportsmen: The Rev. W.B. Daniel, Colonel Peter Hawker, Joe Manton and Captain Horatio Ross, by Thormanby, Published 1901, London An image from Hawker's diary captioned 'Return to Keyhaven after a day's gunning, in the winter of 1838'. (The Gun Inn and Hawker's Cottage, externally little changed to this day, can be seen in the centre of the picture). Gentleman punt-gunners brought a bit more sophistication to the guns used. Hawker, active as a shooter during the early to mid-1800s, developed the double punt-gun. Hawker bought a cottage near Lymington and, from there, expanded his interest in wildfowling. Wilkie, G.; Wilkie, T. (1821). "Specification of the Patent granted to Peter Hawker, of Long-Parish House, near Andover, in the County of Hants, Major in the Army; for a Machine, Instrument, or Apparatus to assist in the Attainment of proper Performance on the Piano-Forte, or other keyed Instruments". The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Vol.39. p.266. However, as with most challenges brought about by necessity, the physical exercise, endeavour, hope, elation of success and the frisson of danger made the act of hunting for necessity into a sport. It was a much-loved recreation in the lives of hard-working men.Hawker designed a Breach Loading swivel gun mounted on a four wheeled carriage, a model of which is reportedly on display at the Rotunda, Woolwich [13]

The Diary Of Colonel Peter Hawker written by Peter Hawker and has been published by T L C Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Fowling categories. Hawker designed a breech-loading swivel gun mounted on a four-wheeled carriage, a model of which was reportedly on display at the Rotunda, Woolwich. [11] Hawker also published an (originally anonymous) memoir on the Peninsula War. [7] Revisionist views of Hawker & his works [ ] Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting, Colonel Peter Hawker, 1910. [5] Specification of the Patent granted to Peter Hawker, of Long-Parish House, near Andover, in the County of. Hants, Major in the Army; for a Machine, Instrument, or Apparatus to assist in the Attainment of proper Performance on the Piano-Forte, or other keyed Instruments. Dated November 1, 1820Journal of a regimental officer during the recent campaign in Portugal and Spain under Lord Viscount Wellington, Colonel Peter Hawker, 1910. [4] Colonel Peter Hawker, a 19th century military man, diarist, author, 'sportsman', firearms inventor, amateur musician and artist, was, unfortunately for the local birdlife, closely connected with the Keyhaven and Pennington marshes, for he spent much of his time slaughtering anything and everything that could fly.



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