RIFLE AND GUN
Written by L.B. Escritt
Published by MacDonald & Evans Ltd.
in 1953
- Categorised in:
- FIELD SPORTS
- SHOOTING
- FIREARMS
- GUNS
RIFLE AND GUN
Written by L.B. Escritt.
Stock no. 2135664
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
For practice, competition and sport. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 305 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some uneven browning and spotting to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is grubby in places with edge-tears and chips; a little loss.
Front cover
Contents
- Ballistics
- Accuracy
- Gunpowders
- Cartridges For Rifled Arms
- Shotgun Cartridges
- The Parts of a Rifle
- Metallic or Iron Sights
- Telescopic Sights
- Sporting, Target and Military Rifes: Pistols
- Shotguns
- Processes of Manufacture
- The Proving of Guns
- Gunfitting
- Cleaning and Maintenance
- Some Legal Aspects of Shooting
- Accidents, Bursts, etc.
- The National Rifle Associations
- Range Construction and Rifle Club Formation
- Markmanship
- Target Rifleman's Equipment
- Clay Pigeons
- Firearms and Fiction