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NOTE: We sell reprints of old gun manuals and catalogs. We do NOT sell GUNS. We do NOT sell gun PARTS. We do NOT offer gun VALUES. WE do NOT represent any gun MAKERS or gun SELLERS.

The Story of the Guns 1864

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The Story of the Guns 1864

337 pages, about 11" x 8", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice original. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Illustrated. This is a history of firearms and cannons.

We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

  • Story of the Guns 1864
  • By Sir Emerson Tennent
  • Armstrong Gun is extraordinary
  • Broken Shot
  • Brown Bess
  • Bursting of the 68 Pounder in 1859
  • Cannons
  • Capt Blakeley’s Gun
  • Comparison of the Enfield and the Whitworth
  • Defects in the Old ordnance
  • Delvigne Rifle
  • Duke of Wellington
  • Early Patents
  • Enfield Bullet
  • First Rifled Cannons
  • Guns of Britten, Thomas and Jeffery
  • Lord Hardinge and Mr. Whitworth
  • Mr. Brunel’s Musket
  • Napoleon III
  • Opinion of the Times and Sunday Review
  • Rifle Gallery at Manchester
  • Rifling explained
  • Sir William Armstrong
  • State of firearms in the Russian and Indian Wars
  • Striping and Jamming
  • The Lancaster Gun
  • The Rifled Musket
  • Tug Boat Trusty
  • Whitworth begins manufacturing
  • Windage

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