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Author: Ronald S. Gabriel
Publisher: Krause Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780873496797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresenting the culmination of 30 years of research, this book catalogues the 125-year developmental history of the 410 handgun in both Britain and the United States. Coverage includes makers such as Browning, Ithaca, Winchester, Boss, Holland & Holland, Purdey and others.
Author: Terry Wieland
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2008-12-16
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0892728434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative guide to British-made shotguns looks at individual makers, their products, and the selling points of particular guns. In some cases Wieland also notes negative points or product limitations. While the book will be welcomed by gun collectors worldwide, it is particularly useful to those who are curious about British makers whose production was or is substantial enough that their guns would have crossed the pond into North America.
Author: Vic Venters
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2010-11-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0892729821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGun Craft examines today's artisanally made guns, as well as the craftsmen who make them. In it, the author takes the reader into the workshops and factories of the world's best gunmakers, making their sometimes-arcane craft skills accessible and relevant to anyone who shoots, owns or collects fine guns. Each chapter explores a separate topic; each has been chosen, however, to provide readers with a unified insight into the complicated task of making hand-made guns in both Europe and the United States.
Author: DONALD. HOLTS AUCTIONEERS. DALLAS
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Published: 2018-10-25
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781846892912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the nineteenth century there were thousands of British gunmakers plying their trade the length and breadth of the land building all qualities of gun and rifle. Gunmakers have dwindled to a very small number today but the nature of the trade has changed from volume production to exclusive best guns only. British gunmakers have embraced the new technology on offer and by using a combination of CNC machining and new steels allied to traditional gunmaking skills, they are building superb quality guns and rifles to the highest standards. Unlike their competitors, British guns are not entirely built by machine and there is a large element of hand craftsmanship in every example built. Not content to rest on their historical laurels, they have introduced new designs and brought their creations right up to date for twenty-first century requirements. Guns and rifles are all built to the exact specifications of the customer and no two are alike. Each gun is individually made yet designed to embrace modern requirements such as high pheasants, steel shot and so on. This book shows the great variety of guns and rifles on offer entirely built in Great Britain today and how British gunmakers still continue to lead the world in best quality guns and rifles.
Author: Silvio Calabi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 158667160X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErnest Hemingway is a mythic writer and alpha male. As a hunter and conservationist, he drew greatly from the strong example of Theodore Roosevelt, and he much enjoyed teaching newcomers to shoot and hunt. Including short excerpts from Hemingway's works, these stories of his guns and rifles tell us as much about him as a lifelong, expert hunter and shooter and as a man.
Author: Michael McIntosh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1586671391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this long-awaited book, Michael McIntosh reveals information on Fox guns never before published and offers a fascinating look at the busy life and changing times of the mercurial genius behind them. Ansley H. Fox was an inventor, a professional live-pigeon shooter, entrepreneur, real-estate developer, and manufacturer of everything from automobiles and auto parts to machine guns and munitions. But he is best remembered as a gunmaker who created an American classic and named it "The Finest Gun in the World." In this, the definitive book on Fox, shotgunners of every interest, from bird hunter to advanced collector, will delight in the insight, the technical expertise, the remarkable breadth and depth of research, and the masterfully crafted prose that is the McIntosh trademark.
Author: Henry A. McGhie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-11-20
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1526116022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-10-20
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1782009493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete guide to weapons history, facts, myths and trivia, covering everything you wanted to know, didn't want to know and you don't know you need to know... Gordon Rottman offers a step by step guide through interesting weapon facts and statistics, including a section on ammunition, while breaking apart popular myths and misconceptions. Covering subjects from weapons designations to the longest serving military rifles, where rifles get their names from and everything in between, Osprey is proud to present The Big Book of Gun Trivia.
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 744
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