Complete Book of Rifles And Shotguns
With a Seven-Lesson Rifle Shooting Course
Published on 18. January 2016
476 pages
978-1-78625-800-7 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to modern sporting rifles and how to use them, cartridges for small, medium and big game, barrels, stocks, sights, scopes, shooting techniques, where to hit them, modern shotguns and how to use them, double, pump, automatic, shotgun stocks, shells, chokes, care of your shotgun, history of sporting rifles and shotguns, complete glossary, PLUS Jack O'Connor's Seven Lesson "e;How to Shoot Course"e;.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PART ONE-THE RIFLE
- CHAPTER ONE-The Origin of Shoulder Arms
- CHAPTER TWO-The Development of Breech Loading
- CHAPTER THREE-The Forerunners of the Modern Rifle
- CHAPTER FOUR-The Basic Facts about Today's Rifle Actions
- CHAPTER FIVE-The Rifle Barrel
- CHAPTER SIX-The Rifle Stock
- CHAPTER SEVEN-How Gunpowder and Early Cartridges Developed
- CHAPTER EIGHT-The Cartridge
- CHAPTER NINE-The Primer: Sparkplug for the Cartridge
- CHAPTER TEN-Bullets for Hunting Game
- CHAPTER ELEVEN-A .22 for the Beginner
- CHAPTER TWELVE-The .24s and .25s
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN-How to Choose Your Deer Rifle
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN-Rifles for Mountain Hunting
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN-The Big-Game Rifle
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN-Iron Sights
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-Telescope Sights
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN-Mounts for Hunting Scopes
- CHAPTER NINETEEN-Seven-Lesson Rifle Shooting Course
- CHAPTER TWENTY-Use a Rest and Hit
- CHAPTER TWENTY ONE-Trajectory: The Bullet's Flight
- CHAPTER TWENTY TWO-The Problem of Wind Allowance
- CHAPTER TWENTY THREE-Placement of Shots for Big Game
- CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR-Slings and Swivels
- PART TWO-THE SHOTGUN
- CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE-Types of Shotguns
- CHAPTER TWENTY SIX-The Shotshell and Its Ballistics
- CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN-Sorting out the Gauges
- CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT-Shotgun Choke and Pattern
- CHAPTER TWENTY NINE-Variable-Choke Devices
- CHAPTER THIRTY-The Shotgun Stock
- CHAPTER THIRTY ONE-How to Hit with the Shotgun
- CHAPTER THIRTY TWO-Clay Target Shooting
- CHAPTER THIRTY THREE-Taking Care of Your Gun
- GLOSSARY OF RIFLE AND SHOTGUN TERMS
