Description
Schuetzen was basically the late 19th-century equivalent of today’s Free Rifle competition. Guns could be of any configuration as long as they were non-bolt-action single shot designs.
An interesting account of how and why the National Rifle Association was formed, and its participation in the international matches, bringing the Schuetzen Rifle into America. There are accounts of various tournaments through the years, news items and scores from old journals. Included are short histories of the rifles in existence at this time such as Ballard, Stevens, Winchester, Sharps, and Maynard, to name a few, plus special sections on sights, loading, bullets and lubricants. Soft bound, 5-1/2 x 8-3/8″, with 121 well illustrated pages.
The Table of Contents includes the following:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Early Days of the Single Shot Rifle
- Chapter 2 The Quest for Accuracy
- Chapter 3 News Items and Scores from Old Journals
- Chapter 4 A Short History of the Stevens Arms Company
- Chapter 5 Early Stevens Rifles
- Chapter 6 Stevens Rifles of the Golden Age
- Chapter 7 Remington Rifles 1870-1907
- Chapter 8 Ballard Rifles
- Chapter 9 The Maynard Rifle 1873-1882
- Chapter 10 Sharps Rifles
- Chapter 11 The Winchester Single Shot Rifle
- Chapter 12 Some Gunsmiths of Colorado
- Chapter 13 Frank and George Freund
- Chapter 14 George Shalck
- Chapter 15 Harry M. Pope
- Chapter 16 A.O. Zischang
- Chapter 17 Adolph O. Niedner
- Chapter 18 W.Milton Farrow
- Chapter 19 Telescopic Sights for Single Shot Rifles
- Chapter 20 Hints on Loading the Single Shot Rifle
- Chapter 21 Lead Bullets and Lubricants
- Chapter 22 Paper Patch Bullets
- Chapter 23 Whitney Arms
- Chapter 24 Peabody – Martini
- Chapter 25 German Eagle Target
- Chapter 26 Items of Interest
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
Softcover, 5 ½ x 8 3/8, 121 pages, well illustrated.
