Modern Breech-Loaders 1871

W. Greener

• Publisher: Carpenter Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781445503585, 9781445504773
• eBook ISBN: 9781447484141

Written by the author of the famous The Gun and Its Development. Over 100 illustrations. The detailed contents cover a wide range of subjects: Central Fire Guns - Breech Loading Shotguns - The Bacon, Horsley, Wesson, Allen and Abbey Breech Loaders - Gun Powder - Spherical Ball Rifles - Cartridges for Express Rifles - Explosive Shells - The Snider Bullet - Rifling - Breech Loading Revolvers and Double Barrel Pistols - Smith and Wesson revolver - Colts Revolvers - Military Rifles and Cartridges - The Westley Richards Rifle - Trajectories - Cartridges for Military Breech Loading Small Arms etc. Many of the earliest gun books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction of The Breech-Loading System
• The Turn-over Breech-action
• Jeffries’ Side-motion Breech-action
• Dougal’s Lockfast Breech-action
• The Self Half-cocking Breech-loader
• Powell’s Patent Snap-action
• Central-Fire Guns
• Strikers or Exploding-pins for Central-fire Guns
• Rebounding Locks
• Self-acting Needles or Strikers for Central-fire Guns
• Greener’s Self-acting Strikers
• Shooting of Breech-loading Shot-guns
• Concentrators
• Converting Muzzle-loaders into Breech-loaders
• Converting Muzzle-loading Rifles into Breech-loaders
• The Bacon Breech-loader
• The Horsley Breech-loader
• The Wesson American Breech-loader
• The Allen Breech-loader
• The Abbey Breech-loader
• The Side-lever Snap-action Breech-loader
• The Bore and Length of Barrels best adapted for Shot-guns
• The Best Material for Gun-barrels
• Gunpowder
• Table of Composition of different Gunpowders
• The Manufacture of Gunpowder
• Gun-cotton
• Trial of Gun-cotton against Gunpowder
• Schultze’s Sawdust Powder and Pyro-pulver
• Trial of Schultze’s Sawdust Powder against Black Gunpowder
• The New Pebble Gunpowder
• The New Explosive Dynamite
• Gale’s Method of Rendering Gunpowder Non-explosive
• The Parachute Shell
• Breech-loading Ball-guns
• Large-bore Ball-guns for Elephant-shooting
• The Origin of Rifling
• Spherical-ball Rifles for Large Game
• The best kind of Grooving for Spherical-ball Rifles
• The Accuracy of Double Rifles
• The Loading of Cartridges for Double Rifles
• The Weight of Double Rifles
• Double Rifle, 577-bore, for Snider Cartridge, on the Lefaucheux Principle
• Single Sporting Snider
• Sporting Rifles, 500 (or Half-inch) Bore
• The Express Rifle, 450-bore
• The Westley-Richards Single Express Rifle
• Express Rifle for Large-game Shooting
• Large-bore Express Rifles Impracticable
• Cartridges for Express Rifles
• Remarks on the Accuracy and Trajectory of Express Rifles
• The Advantages of the Express Rifle
• Steel Barrels for Small-bore Rifles
• Double Rifle with Snap-actions
• Experiments with Explosive Shells
• To Load the Express Cartridges
• Explosive Shells
• The Explosive Compound for Shells
• Sights for Sporting Rifles
• Breech-loading Pea-rifles
• The (American) Maynard Sporting Rifle
• Rifling for Small-bore Rifles
• The Snider Bullet and Rifling
• Steel Chambers for Breech-loaders
• How to Select or Order a Gun
• The Cost of different Breech-loading Guns, Rifles, and Revolvers
• Breech-Loading Revolvers and Double-Barrel Pistols
• The Smith and Wesson (American) Revolver
• The Central-fire Revolver, 450-bore
• The Irish Constabulary Revolver
• Adams’ Patent Central-fire Breech-loading Revolver
• The Shooting of Adams’ And Colt’s Revolvers
• Colt’s Improved Metallic-cartridge Revolver
• The Galand and Somerville Patent Self-extracting Revolver
• The Thomas Patent Revolver
• The Pertuiset Shell
• Military Breech-Loading Rifles and Cartridges
• The Prussian Needle-gun
• Sharp’s Breech-loading Carbine
• Green’s Breech-loading Carbine
• Westley-Richards’ Capping Breech-loader
• The Mont-Storm Breech-loader
• The Snider Breech-loader
• The Braendlin-Albini Breech-loading Rifle
• The Fosberry Rifle
• The French Chassepot Rifle
• The Burton Rifle, No. 2
• The Carter-Edwards Breech-loading Rifle
• The Wilson Breech-loading Rifle
• The Kerr Breech-loading Rifle
• The Objections of the Bolt System
• The American Repeating or Magazine Rifles
• The Henry Repeating Rifle
• The Winchester Repeating Rifle
• The Remington Rifle
• The Berdan Russian Rifle
• The Roberts or Converted Springfield Rifle
• The Peabody Breech-loading Rifle
• Report of the Select Committee on Breech-loading Small Arms, 1868, including the Trials of the Martini, the Henry, Westley-Richards, Bacon, Berdan, Carter-Edwards, Kerr, Money-Walker, and Wilson Breech-loading Rifles
• Full Description of the Martini Breech-action
• The Martini-Henry Arms and Ammunition issued for Trial, 1869
• The Westley-Richards Military Breech-loading Rifle
• The Henry Breech-loading Rifle
• The Burton Breech-loader, No. 1
• The Comblain Breech-loader, No. 2
• The Soper Breech-loader
• The Austrian Werndl Breech-loader
• The Bayonet
• The Shooting of Military Breech-loaders
• The Shooting at Wimbledon, 1870
• Experiments to ascertain the Fall of Projectiles with Military Rifles
• Rapidity of Fire with Breech-loaders
• Cartridges for Military Breech-loading Small Arms
• The Solid Brass-drawn Berdan Cartridge
• Percussion Caps and Cartridges not Dangerous in Transit
• The American Gatling Gun
• The Mitrailleuse
• Notes