Description
Curtis’s & Harvey Ammunition 1889 Notes on Shooting
59 pages, about 8″ x 5 1/2″, glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Chapter 3 is missing but the page count above and index below are correct.
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CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- Instructions for the Use of Sporting Gunpowder, Black and Patent
- Written by An old Manufacturer”
- Modern Gunpowder and its Manufacturing
- Combustion and Range
- Pressures in Sporting Guns
- Measuring Pressures
- Tables of Pressures
- Trials and their Results
- Recoil and Kick
- Brown Powder Pressures
- Influence of Shot on Pressures
- Influence of Wads on Pressures
- Influence of Moisture on Pressures
- How to Load With Black Powder
- Overloading and Smoke
- How to Obtain a Given Velocity
- Small Charges
- Wads
- Hard and Soft Shot
- Best Size of Shot
- Systematic Loading
- Table of Loads
- Weight of Powder Charges in Drachms and Grains
- Shot Sizes and Weghts
- Curtis and Harvey Improved Cartridge Warmer
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