Description
Improved American Rifle 1848 with Ned Roberts Supplement
- 226 pages, about 8 1/2″ x 6″ 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.
- Fully Illustrated.
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This fully restored reprint of the 1929 Ideal Hand Book No. 28 offers an extensive compendium of shooting knowledge popular among U.S. sportsmen in the late 1920s. Printed on high‑quality 20 lb., 97‑bright acid‑free paper and digitally enhanced for clarity, it includes timeless technical discussion and ballistic data.
Covered topics include:
- Handloading and reloading techniques for rifles and shotguns
- Rifling twist rates and groove diameters for American-made firearms
- Black powder vs. smokeless propellants, bullet jackets, and high-pressure powders
- Bullet casting, bullet lubrication processes, and sizing details
- Comprehensive charging tables for Winchester, Remington, Savage, Krag, Mauser, and more
- Shotgun reloading guidance with accessory recommendations
- Ideal bullets factory loading outfit listings and reference charts
- Tool and parts pricing: lead pots, Lyman sights, molds, and related hardware
Ideal for:
- Reloaders and gunsmiths restoring or handloading vintage firearms
- Historians studying interwar-era propellant trends and ballistic standards
- Collectors seeking period-authentic technical manuals for their reference library
- Shooting instructors and enthusiasts exploring classic ballistic and precision-shooting materials
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- This was originally a limited edition printing by New Roberts who believed very little had changed the rules set down by Chapman. Those ideas he felt needed updating he added at the end.
- Improved American Rifle 1848
- John R. Chapman’s Supplement by Major Ned H. Roberts
- To the Young Marksmen of the United States, This Treatise on Their Favorite Weapon is Humbly Dedicated by their Fellow Marksman, John R. Chapman
- Others writing inadequate on the Subject
- Wesson Rifle improved
- Method of Obtaining the Curve of the line of flight
- Oenetration of Flat ended Picket bullets
- Defence of target shooting as a rational amusement
- Characteriestics of the European, continuental and English Rifles
- Pecularities of the American Rifle
- Description of Wesson’s target rifle
- Different Sights
- Prices of the Wesson Target Rifle
- Description of the 12 inch Wesson Pistol
- Cost of sights made my Mr. James, Utica New York
- Description of moulds, caps, the swedge, starter
- Wooden targets, wind flags
- Requirements for making a good marksman
- Method of calculating variations of sights
- Target shooting in windy weather
- Fair meaning of off-hand
- The Mississippi off-hand doge
- Shooting matches at Syracuse, Sherburne and Tropy
- Recommenditions of Wesson and other makes
- The Causes of error
- Why Dupont and English powders do not perform well
- Theoretic principles upon which Acurate Performance are founded
- Dr. Ure, Robins
- The twist
- Conclusion
