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.
We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer.
This reprint of the 1889 Curtis’s & Harvey ammunition manual delivers factory-produced guidance on sporting gunpowder and ballistics from a prominent British powder manufacturer. Restored and digitally enhanced, it is printed on high-quality, acid-free paper.
Manual contents include:
- Instructions on black vs. patent gunpowder and modern manufacturing methods
- Ballistics: combustion, range, recoil, and kickback analysis
- Measuring and tabulating pressures in sporting guns
- Effects of shot, wads, and powder moisture on performance
- Loading procedures: black powder loading, velocity control, and safe charge levels
- Tables of loads, shot sizes and weights, and powder charge measurements
- Information on pressures for different loads and card for Curtis & Harvey cartridge warmer
Best suited for:
- Historians researching 19th-century British ammunition and ballistics
- Reloaders and collectors seeking period technical guidance
- Firearms educators studying black powder performance and safety
- Enthusiasts interested in original source ballistics and loading tables
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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