CONTENTS INCLUDE:

• By The United States Cartridge Company-1892
• Discovery and Principles of a Rifle. – Rifles of the Present. – Material for Rifle Barrels
• Manufacture of Rifle Barrels. – Boring – – Straightening. – Rifling. – Leading and Chambering
• Forgings. – Additional work on Barrels – Stocking
• Rifle Sights. – Front Open Sights
• Rifle Sights. – Rear Open Sights and Rear Peep Sights
• Combination Rifle Sights
• Target Sights for Rifles
• Telescope Rifle Sights.
• Hunting Rifles. – Single Shot and Repeating Rifles
• Target Rifles, – Rifles for Off-hand and
• Rest Target Shooting
• Military Rifles
• Pocket Rifles
• Positions in Rifle Shooting
• Aiming, Sighting, Holding, and Firing
• Trajectories of Rile Bullets
• What it is possible to do with a Rifle
• The Manipulation and Care of Rifles
• The Proper and the Absurd Use of the Rifle.
• Constructing a Rifle Range. – Laying out a Range. – Arrangement of the Butts and Pits. – Systems for Marking Shots
• Targets used by American Riflemen
• Preparing Rifle Ammunition
• The Art of Bullet Making
• Modern Machinery for Manufacturing Rifles
• Round Bullets in Modern Rifles.
• RULES GOVERNING RIFLE SHOOTING

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