. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. The Sliot-Ciim. 767. srANISII I its own against fire-arms lonjj^ after their introduction into armies of Europe. It is stated tinit an Hnjj^lish archer could pierce any armor at two hundred yards distant, except that made of Milan or the best Spanish plate; and the ancient accounts of men in armor havinjj;^ 1)een shot through is confirmed by breast and back plates, in European museums, perforated with arrow-lToles. Indeed, so well
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. The Sliot-Ciim. 767. srANISII I its own against fire-arms lonjj^ after their introduction into armies of Europe. It is stated tinit an Hnjj^lish archer could pierce any armor at two hundred yards distant, except that made of Milan or the best Spanish plate; and the ancient accounts of men in armor havinjj;^ 1)een shot through is confirmed by breast and back plates, in European museums, perforated with arrow-lToles. Indeed, so well did the English appreciate the peculiar excellence of the long-bow as a military arm, that it retained a place in their army even as late as 1627. The wheel-lock hunting arm received improvements in work- manship and in matters of detail, but remained essentially the same for a cent- ury, when, in 1630, the flint-lock was in- vented in Spain. To Spanish artisans are also due great advances in the manu- facture of gun-barrels, in which art they continued to improve so much that those of their best artisan, Nicholas Hiz, of Mad- rid, sold as high as two hundred dollars. The flint-lock fowling-piece held its own during two centuries, during which period it was gradually improved in all its parts,—in the texture and chambering of the barrels, in the locks, and in the general proportions of the gun,—till it reached the zenith of its ex- cellence, about 1H15, "when," says Mr. W. W. (ireener ("The (jun and its Development"), "the renowned Joseph Manton — the king of gun-makers—had so improved and added to its mechanism as to make a first-rate sporting gun veritably an engine; for it is from that word that the term ' gun' is derived. Tht; various im|)rovements to effect self-|)riming and to render the flash-pan water-tight greatly added to the mechanical parts, and a pair of the best pattern flint- locks, well made and finished, were well worth the se
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