@article{595451, recid = {595451}, author = {Magné de Marolles,}, title = {An essay on shooting containing the various methods of forging, boring and dressing gun barrels, practised in France, Spain, and England, and the different Proofs of Barrels employed in those Countries; with Remarks-An Investigation of the Causes of Recoil, and of Bursting; with Proposals for preventing or remedying Them-An Inquiry into the Effects of the Length, Bore, and Charge, upon the Range, &c. of the Piece-Remarks on the Properties and Action of Gunpowder, and upon the Articles of Shot, Wadding, &c. &c. - Instructions for attaining the Art of Shooting-The Methods of training Pointers-And a short Description of the Game of this Country, as connected with the Amusement of Shooting. The whole interspersed with summary Observations on the various Subjects of the Sport. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand,}, address = {London :}, pages = {xxix,[3],313,[1]p. ;}, year = {1791}, note = {Anonymous. By Gervais François Magné de Marolles.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/595451}, }