BREECH LOADING SINGLE SHOT RIFLE

Ned Henry Roberts

ISBN 10: 0935632425 / ISBN 13: 9780935632422

Published by Wolfe Publishing Co, US, 1987

About this Item

Army green cloth over boards with gilt-debossed particulars to spine and front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light shelf wear, but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping and rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has clean and bright covers with light sunning to spine, previous owner's tape repairs to chips and closed tears at top edge and lower edge, and long tear from lower edge of front cover along spine; large tear to top edge of rear cover but also has previous owner's tape repair. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

Seller Inventory # 62337

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BREECH LOADING SINGLE SHOT RIFLE
• Publisher: Wolfe Publishing Co, US
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935632425
• ISBN 13: 9780935632422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -
• Seller catalogs:
  • Hunting & Guns

About this title

Synopsis

About This Book: A complete and authoritative study of breech-loading single-shot rifles from the early models of Match or Schuetzen Rifles to the 1980's. Cloth over boards with a sewn binding; 333 pp; b&w illustrations throughout. An earlier version of this book was released under a different title in the 1960's. The authors consider this 2nd Edition a "complete rewrite and update."

Table of Contents Highlights: Chapter titles include "Custom Single-Shot Rifles," "Ned Roberts the Early Years," "Iron Sights," "Moulds, Bullets, and Casting," "Hunting Rifles," "Modern Single Shot Rifles," "Loading Tools, Powders, and Loads," "Offhand Shooting and Shooters," "Rest Shooting and Notes Rest Shooters," "Rifle Targets 1875-1925."