Gun Digest Presents Classic Sporting Rifles
Published on 1. February 2012
208 pages
978-1-4402-3005-9 (ISBN)
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From David Crockett with "Old Betsy" to the mountain men and their Hawkens to the buffalo hunters and their Sharps and Winchester '73s - These are the rifles that fire the imagination of both hunters and historians. Now, Gun Digest presents a unique compilation of articles celebrating these iconic guns. Classic Sporting Rifles, written by a "who's who" of gun writers from the twentieth century, includes stories by Col. Townsend Whelen (a.k.a., Mr. Rifleman), Elmer Keith, Jack O'Connor, Warren Page, Jim Carmichel, and more!
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Gun Digest Presents Classic Sporting Rifles
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03/2012
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Terry Wieland, shooting editor of Gray's Sporting Journal since 1993, is both an award-winning writer and a recognized authority on fine firearms.
In 1971, as a journalist, Wieland made his first trip to Africa to cover the civil war in the Sudan, returned in 1972 to cover the turmoil in Uganda, and again in 1976, covering both the bush war in Rhodesia and the riots in South Africa. He made his first hunting safari in 1990 and has returned a dozen times since, hunting in Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. He has also hunted in Alaska, the Yukon, and throughout North America, as well as in Europe and the United Kingdom.
Since 1985, Wieland has been a full-time freelance writer, specializing in fine firearms, wingshooting, and big-game hunting, and writes for Rifle, Handloader, Shooting Times, and Safari Times as well as for Gray's.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1952 Notes on the Hunting Rifle
- 1946 The Proper Big Game Rifle
- 1951 Choosing the Big Game Rifle
- 1958 The Sheep Rifle
- 1961 World Wide Arsenal
- 1982 Carmichel On Rifles
- 1989 Small Game Centerfires
- 1962 Kentucky Rifle
- 1954 Mountain Men and Mountain Rifles
- 1955 Mountain Men Mountain Rifles
- 1946 Shooting the Muzzle Loading Cap Lock Rifle
- 2004 Evolution of the Modern High Performance Muzzleloader
- 1963 Buffalo!
- 1968 The Sharps Side-Hammer Rifle
- 1979 Alex Henry and his falling Block Rifles
- 1963 John Farquharson's Rifle and its Competitors
- 1953 My Single-Shot Rifles
- 1967 Ruger's Reactionary Rifle -
- 1992 The Gentleman's Companion Rifle
- 1956 The Double Rifle -
- 1958 English Elephant Guns
- 1967 The Deadly Dependable Double
- 1979 The Double Rifle its care and feeding
- 1985 Make Mine a Sidehammer Rifle
- 1965 Lever Action Rifles
- 1988 The Lever and Why it Lasted
- 1980 The Winchester Model 94
- 2003 Selling the American 303
- 1960 Days of the Krag
- 1965 Model 70 Winchesters - Old and New
- 1996 The Big Little Mannlicher-Schoenauer
- 1971 The New Mannlicher Rifles
- Copyright
