Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries - Edited with an Introduction

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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 1970 with Shooting categories. Continental Europeans took part in punt-gunning much as the British did and many examples of French-made punt-guns exist. Hawker, Peter (1810). Journal of a Regimental Officer During the Recent Campaign in Portugal and Spain under Lord Viscount Wellington. London: J. Johnson. It`s taken a mate of mine some twenty five years of badgering to get a look at some of the UK located copies of the original documents. Hawker is best known today for his published works on the sporting activities of shooting, wildfowling and fishing. Hawker published his "Advice to Young Sportsmen" in 1814, a popular work with nine impressions in his lifetime, the latest paper edition appearing in 1975. Forty years after Hawker's death, an Australian book reviewer stated, "Probably no book on the subject of sport ever enjoyed so wide or so long sustained a popularity as the Instructions to Young Sportsmen". [5]

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 I`m doing some other research into Hawkers original diaries which is very slow going since, in later life, his handwriting was almost illegible. Why Shoot Coot?)...to regard them as quarry seems an outmoded idea, belonging more properly to the era of Peter Hawker and his contemporaries of 150 years ago who's principle of "If it moves, shoot it" has happily long died out." The Times, Saturday, Feb 5, 1966; pg. 11; Issue 56548; col C Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Canonical name Hawker, Peter Birthdate 1786-11-24 Date of death 1853-08-07 Gender male Nationality United Kingdom Birthplace London, England, UK Occupations diarist

A History of Firearms: From Earliest Times to 1914 By W. Y. Carman, 1955, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, londonP74 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.

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 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. 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.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. 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 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.

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.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).