Download or read book Big Game Shooting A Few Notes On Rifles And Ammunition written by H. W. H. and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early handbook is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A concise look at rifles and ammunition that will prove of great interest to the hunting and shooting enthusiast. Extensively illustrated with black and white diagrams and drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Big Game Shooting by C Phillipps Wolley with contributions by R Heber Percy A Pike A C Heber Percy W A Baillie Groham Sir H Pottinger bart the Earl of Kilmorey A Chapman W J Buck and St George Littledale With illustrations by Charles Whymper and from photographs written by Clive Phillipps-Wolley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Game Rifles and Cartridges written by Elmer Keith and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic includes the following chapters: I. Big Game Rifles and Cartridges II. Long Range Stalking Rifles III. Combination or All Around Rifles, Suitable for Both Timber and Long Range Shooting IV. Double Barreled Rifles. V. Iron Sights for Hunting VI. Hunting Scopes and Mounts VII. Hunting Rifle Stocks
Download or read book The Big game Rifle written by Jack O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gun Notes written by Elmer Keith and published by Safari Press. This book was released on 2002-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1961 till the early 1980s Elmer Keith was a regular contributor to Guns & Ammo magazine, with a monthly column entitled "Gun Notes." Here are the most interesting writings from his long writing career at Guns & Ammo magazine. This book is entirely devoted to pistols, revolvers, bolt-action and double rifles, shotguns, ammunition, loads, bullets, and accessories. Keith was one of the country's most knowledgeable experts on big-bore calibers, and this book has a wealth of information based on his lifelong experience with just about every imaginable sporting arm. In addition, the book contains letters from Elmer Keith to Truman Fowler, who was the publisher of Keith's Safari book; it also contains the correspondence from Fowler (a well-known big-bore advocate) to Jack O'Connor, who took exception to much of what Keith and Fowler recommended. This is more than highly entertaining reading -- the pages of the correspondence literally sizzle under your fingertips! Gun Notes is illustrated with photos from the Guns & Ammo files. Keith wrote ten books, in all, on hunting and firearms and was an absolute believer in big-bore rifles with heavy bullets. Over this issue, he and Jack O'Connor, another well-known sports writer and contemporary of Keith's, had a bitter running feud for years. Keith was also instrumental in the development of the .44 Magnum, .41 Magnum, and .338 Magnum cartridges as well as numerous other firearm and ballistic innovations. He was one of America's best shots with rifle, handgun, and shotgun. Keith was, perhaps, best known for his articles that appeared in numerous magazines from before World War II until the early 1980s. Book jacket.
Download or read book Hunting with the Twenty Two written by Charles Singer Landis and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect rifle for hunting small game and varmints in settled and semi-settled agricultural and grazing districts should be quiet, safe to shoot there and inexpensive; and, owing to the small size of the vital areas of most of such game, should be superlatively accurate. Its bullet should, whenever possible, either expand and remain in the game, or destroy itself completely upon impact with earth, sod, stones or rock. It should kill well, yet not cause needless mangling or suffering. The .22 caliber rifle, both in the rim fire and in the flatter-shooting center fire, gives the least report, throws the lightest and smallest projectile, is among the most accurate of all calibers, and is the least expensive to shoot. In the .22 long rifle caliber, it is also the easiest to supply with factory ammunition, which can be purchased at nearly any village hardware store. In center fire, it is cheap to reload, has very light recoil, and causes but little annoyance to farmers and stock raisers. In Eastern farming or estate country, the .22 caliber, both rim and center fire, is the quietest and yet the most effective of all our rifle calibers for either field or woods hunting of small game. In short, from the thoroughly practical standpoint of being usable where any sort of rifled firearm may be shot, it has more advantages and fewer disadvantages than any other caliber. Further, the use of a .22 caliber rifle in the field or in the forests is much like the use of a 20 gauge shotgun on quail or a fine fly rod to dangle dry flies before trout or small mouth black bass. It is the equipment of the man of appreciation and discernment who wishes to develop and depend upon skill rather than upon force and smashing power. After all, most of us go hunting for sport. We wish to enjoy ourselves to the full while gunning, consequently we do not wish to be stopped, neither do most of us wish to annoy landowners. Nevertheless, we need a weapon of precision, great mechanical refinement, X-ring accuracy, and yet which is of a type which appeals to those who have substituted skill and ability in hunting and shooting for the 30" killing pattern of the 12 gauge shotgun. The real story of what has been done, can be done, and what you can do if properly equipped and instructed and shooting a splendidly accurate, properly sighted, precision-built .22 caliber rifle in field and forest has never been adequately told in a book exclusively devoted to hunting and shooting small game and varmints with .22 caliber rifles. The author went into this as much as space permitted in 1931 in “.22 Caliber Rifle Shooting,” but that work is now out of print, the issue having become exhausted. This book, by text and illustration, covers the subject. It is in no part a work of fiction. The shooting related in this book actually occurred. It tells you exactly how to hunt successfully, and to shoot each common variety of North American small game and varmints, where to find them, how to locate and hunt them, and gives numerous examples of rifles and cartridges which produced unusual results. For the youth or the man with his first .22 caliber rifle, for the small bore target shot who has enjoyed only one-half of an experience with a .22 rifle (the remaining half to be found afield), and for the crank rifleman, reloader, small bore ballistics shark and experimenter, this book is a must. Read this work in the spirit in which it was written, that of sportsmen writing one to another; of old timers in the game of field shooting giving their experiences, their hunting lore, their ammunition developments, their misses and their long range hits. This is the book for any small game and varmint hunter who has a rifle and wants to use it more successfully. If you can read this work without learning anything about hunting with the small caliber rifle, you certainly know game shooting with the .22 rifle. May it bring you many happy days in the field.
Download or read book Big Game Shooting V2 1905 written by Horace Gordon Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Big Game Shooting written by Clive Phillipps-Wolley and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1894 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rifle written by Stephen Riggs Truesdell and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hunting Rifle on Game At Rest On the Move and Long Range Shooting written by Theodore S. Van Dyke and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Download or read book Rifles and Shotguns written by Warren Hastings Miller and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Buffalo written by Steven Rinella and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo’s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a “bone charcoal” plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
Download or read book Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Game Shooting Africa and Northern America written by Clive Phillipps-Wolley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Rifles Cartridges written by John Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences and opinions of a professional ivory hunter with some thirty years of continuous living in the African Bush--who has used all of the various calibers and most of the suitable cartridges, and with them killed the many species of big game found on the continent of Africa.
Download or read book Big Game Shooting written by Clive Phillipps-Wolley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Game Shooting is a book full of both fascinating tales and practical advice on a kind of hunting that has gone quite seriously out of fashion. This is both a collection of stories about hunting big game and an instructional on topics of interest to the avid marksman. The book is separated into chapters, of which Clive Phillipps-Wolley has authored four, with guest contributors responsible for the remaining sections. Chapters vary in terms of scope, with some examining a single breed of game and others more broadly discussing a topic of interest to the hunting community. Specific topics detailed including arctic hunting, the stag of the Alps, the Scandinavian elk, the large game of Spain and Portugal, and several others. The book transitions to a series of instructional chapters that focus on setting up camps and transportation, selecting rifles and ammunition, and hints on preservation and taxidermy. The title is concluded by a detailed appendix. Big Game Shooting is a work that will appeal to the hunting enthusiast. The first-hand accounts of hunting expeditions that form the largest section of the book are entertaining and educational. The instructional chapters can be read both practically and as a text illuminating the history of hunting practices. While Clive Phillipps-Wolley receives credit as the primary author, all of the included writers provide meaningful contributions to the work. While the practice of shooting big game is less than highly regarded among environmentally concious individuals much of this advice will also help those "hunting" with a camera. The tales of hunting expeditions are entertaining, and the advice provided practical. Big Game Shooting is a worthwhile read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
