Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries - Edited with an Introduction

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The Diary Of Colonel Peter Hawker 1802 1853 Volume 1 written by Peter Hawker and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories. Some big guns gained almost cult status. Irish Tom was made as a muzzle-loading punt-gun. It was bought from an Irish market gunner in the early 1930s by Stanley Duncan. He had it converted to a breech-loader by Greener and started using it in 1936. When Duncan had finished with the gun he sold it to actor James Robertson Justice. It was rediscovered and restored in the 1980s and given to BASC to display at its HQ. 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 Colonel Hawker S Shooting Diaries 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 1931 with Shooting categories. The Diary Of Colonel Peter Hawker 1802 1853 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 1893 with Fowling categories.

Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth So the punt gun shown in an earlier TGS Outdoors video was either Hawkers, or there`s a 50% chance it was his. Most punt-guns are crude, single-barrel devices; ironmongery rather than fine gunmaking. They have to endure frequent dousing in salt water and the rigours of being hauled in and out of the sea in rough weather by tired men with cold hands. Willmott-Dixon, William ("Thormanby") (2007) [1901]. Read, Tony (ed.). Kings Of The Trigger: Biographical Sketches Of Four Famous Sportsmen (Reprinted.). Alcester: Read Country Books. ISBN 978-1-406-78745-0. 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 gun was converted, by WAGBI (Wildfowlers’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland, now BASC) founder Stanley Duncan, into two single-barrel guns in the mid-20th century. He cited insufficient wildfowl numbers to justify double discharges in British waters. Hawker is best known today for his published works on the sports of shooting, wildfowling and fishing. Hawker published his “Advice to Young Sportsmen” in 1814, a popular work having nine imprints in his lifetime with the latest paper edition printed in 1975. Forty years after Hawker's death an Australian book reviewer states that "Probably no book on the subject of sport ever enjoyed so wide or so long sustained a popularity as the "Instructions to Young Sportsmen". [6] Hawker kept a regular diary (published in abridged form) which contains observations of pre and post-Napoleonic Europe, wildfowling, game-bird shooting and details of hunting techniques and conditions prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th Century. His diary, printed in two volumes, was also a popular work with the last paper edition printed in 1988. Holland & Holland first notes the manufacture of a punt-gun in 1872 and thereafter made several, improving on the design each time. A typical Holland & Holland punt-gun of the 1880s was the London, which was a single-barrel breechloading gun, 8½ft long, weighing 100lb and of 1½in bore. 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.) 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]

Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting, Colonel Peter Hawker, 1910. [5] Colonel Peter Hawker (24 November 1786 – 7 August 1853) [1] was a celebrated diarist and author, and a shooting sportsman accounted one of the "great shots" of the 19th century. [2] His sporting exploits were widely followed and on occasion considered worth reporting in The Times. [3] Early life [ edit ] Hawker kept a regular diary which contains observations of Europe before and after the Napoleonic period and of wild-fowling, game-bird shooting and detailed hunting techniques and conditions prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His diary, printed in an abridged form in two volumes, became a popular work. The most recent paper edition appeared in 1988. Hawker also published an originally anonymous memoir of the Peninsula War. [6] Revisionist views [ edit ]Hawker, Peter (1810). Journal of a Regimental Officer During the Recent Campaign in Portugal and Spain under Lord Viscount Wellington. London: J. Johnson. urn:oclc:record:1043301211 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier diaryofcolonelpe01hawk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7hq40d4f Lccn 16022525 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Openlibrary_edition The fact that your associate wants to keep information to himself is a bit of a pity but I can understand it as my brother researches the story of soldiers killed in WW 1 and feels the same way. I often wonder what the sales figures would be for a book on Hawker considering that all his books are now in the public domain . Someone may be able to make a phd thesis out of it but just how much interest modern shooters would have in it is questionable. I just had my curiosity raised by Sir Ralph Payne Gallweys statement that he could have produced more books from the original manuscripts and remarks in his diary like the ordnance used some of my ideas in the Enfield P53 but unwisely not all of them - you just want to known what he was referring to . Hawker spent a considerable amount of time at his London residence and at Longparish House in the Test valley, whilst a cottage in Keyhaven served as a base for his wildfowling exploits.