Game Guns and Rifles: Percussion to Hammerless Ejector in Britain

Akehurst, Richard

Language: English

Published by Sportsmans Pr, 1992

0948253614 / 9780948253614

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The Sportsman's Press. London. (1969) 1992 reprint. 8vo (160 x 242mm). Ppxiv,178. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Dark red boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in unclipped dust-wrapper. An authoritative and readable account of "one of the most inventive periods in British gunmaking, from 1830 to 1900". Chapters include: Percussion cap guns; Percussion cap rifles; gunmaking in the percussion era; The pinfire breech-loader; The centre-fire hammer gun; Centre-fire hammerless guns, ejectors and single-triggers; Shooting , 1860 to 1900; Breech-loading game rifles; Gunmaking in the breech-loading era up to 1900; gunmakers of the period; The shooting of muzzle and early breech-loaders.

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Title
Game Guns and Rifles: Percussion to Hammerless Ejector in Britain
Author
Akehurst, Richard
Publisher
Sportsmans Pr
Publication year
1992
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0948253614
ISBN 13
9780948253614
Edition
1st Edition

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