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Curtis’s & Harvey Ammunition 1889 Notes on Shooting

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Curtis Harvey 1889

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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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