Dangerous-Game Rifles
2nd Edition
Published on 15. October 2009
368 pages
978-0-89272-902-9 (ISBN)
Description
The popularity of rifles designed to take big game has never been greater. Terry Wieland, a widely recognized firearms expert, explores in detail the rifles and calibers that are drawing attention. This second edition covers what has changed in the field since the first edition was published-new calibers, new cartridges, new guns, new actions-and includes new material on action and barrel manufacture, tracing the production of a fine, custom-made, big-bore rifle.
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Edition
2nd Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
25,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-89272-902-9 (9780892729029)
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Terry Wieland
Dangerous-Game Rifles
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02/2010
2nd Edition
Down East Books,U.S.
€37.50
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By Terry Wieland
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Genesis
- The Rifle to 1898
- Nitro Express!
- Double Rifles
- The Great English Double
- Holland & Holland
- W.J. Jeffery
- John Rigby & Co.
- Westley Richards
- William Evans
- Britain Past & Present
- The Continental Divide
- Buying New and Used
- Bolt Actions
- The Mauser 98
- The Modern Mauser
- Mauser's Rivals
- A Question of Strength
- Single-Shots and Other Players
- Single-Shot Rifles
- Big-Bore Lever-Actions
- Building a Big-Bore Rifle
- Granite Mountain Arms and the Mauser 98
- The Rifled Barrel
- Stocking the Dangerous-Game Rifle
- The Custom Rifle
- Cartridges & Bullets
- The Perfect Cartridge
- Today's Cartridge Makers
- Smokeless Cartridges for Double Rifles
- Cartridges for Bolt Actions
- From Lead to Jackets
- The Modern Expanding Bullet
- Put to the Test: The Expanding Bullets
- Snake Oil and Pumpkin Balls
- Solids - The Revered "Full Patch"
- Using the Dangerous-Game Rifle
- Loads & Loading
- Accuracy
- Sights & Sighting
- Recoil, Weight, and Balance
- Practice with a Heavy Rifle
- The Shooting School
- Appendices
- Appendix One: Ballistic Tables (Federal, Norma, Kynamco, Westley Richards, Hornady)
- Appendix Two: Accurate Arms 5744 Special Loading Note
- Bibliography
