Walsh, J. H. (″Stonehenge”).

The Modern Sportsman’s Gun and Rifle; including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles and Revolvers. In two Volumes. Volume II only: The Sporting Rifle, Match Rifle and Revolver.

First Ediiton. London, Horace Cox, “The Field” Office, 1884. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XVI, 584 pages. With 203 illustrations. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Original Edition of this classic in its original green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament. Some stronger signs of external wear. Hinges internally a little weak and starting to separate. Including the Errata – Leaf.

[Ray Riling’s Bibliography “Guns and Shooting” – No. 1114: The Modern Sportsman’s Gund and Rifle. Volume I – Game and Wildfowl Guns. Volume II – The Sporting Rifle, Match Rifle and Revolver. Riling writes: “The first Volume was written after the author had served for nearly a quarter of a century as Editor of the “Field” and with the benefit of W.W.Greener’s “The Gun and its Development” at hand. The author regards the advantage but states, “but it must be borne in mind that men actively engaged in business like Mr.Greener, have so concentrated their attention on their own improvements that they overlook what others are doing around them”. The author apologizes in the preface to Vol. II for the long delay in preparing his material for the press, and thus causing the second volume to be held back two years. More accuracy and precision of detail then in the author’s “The Shot-Gun and Sporting Rifle”]

Chapters in this volume include for example: Dr.Macleod’s New Smooth-bore Cylindrical Bullet / Constitution of the Sporting Rifle / Definitions of Express Rifle / What is a sporting Range / Rifling Machines / Theory of Projectiles / The Drop of the Bullet / Causes that Influence the Flight of the Bullet / Production of Motion by Combustion of Powder / The Trajectory of the Bullet / Recoil / Estimation of Recoil / Effect of Different Charges on Recoil / The “Jump” / Influence of the Wind / Large-Bore Rifles for Elephant Shooting / Single Sporting Rifles other than Rook Rifles / Rook and Rabbit Rifles / Ammunition for Sporting Rifles / The Manufacture of Solid Drawn Cartridge Shells / The Mechanical Construction of the Sporting Rifle and its Ammunition / Modern Rifled Pistols / Revolvers / Webley’s Improved Government Pattern Revolver / Non-Revolving Pistols / Charles Lancaster’s Patent Four-Barrel Breech-loading Hammerless Pistol / The Saloon Pistol / The Deringer / The Match or Target Rifle and its Ammunition / History of the Modern Target Rifle / The Whitworth Rifle / The Service Rifle and its Ammunition / The New Martini-Enfield / The Modern Military Breechloading Rifle / The Farquharson-Metford by Gibbs / The Deeley-Edge-Metford by Westley-Richards and Co. / The rigby-Banks M.B.L.Rifle / Management of the Target Rifle etc. etc.

• Keywords: Field Sports · Game · Hunting · Hunting and Shooting Collection · Library & Collection Building · Shooting
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 27878AB