Description
Modern Breech-Loaders, Sporting & Military- 1871 Greener
- 272 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.
- Fully Illustrated.
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Full-color softcover reprint or PDF download
This reprint of the 1969 Mossberg Owner’s Guide offers factory-endorsed operation and maintenance instructions for Mossberg rifles and shotguns. Digitally restored and printed on acid-free paper, it preserves the practical layout and essential firearm knowledge of the original pocket guide.
Inside this guide:
- Overview of Mossberg’s 1969 model line-up, including bolt-actions and pumps
- Step-by-step operation: loading, safety checkpoints, and trigger usage
- Magazine tube care, choke system explanations, and sight adjustments
- Cleaning, lubrication routines, and storage tips
- Illustrated schematics of internal assemblies and fire-control components
- Recommended ammo and basic troubleshooting techniques
Best suited for:
- Owners and collectors of mid-century Mossberg firearms
- Gunsmiths and technicians needing factory-issued specs and maintenance hints
- Shooting instructors using period-authentic training references
- Enthusiasts building a reference library of classic American rifle and shotgun guides
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- Modern Breechloaders 1871 by W. W. Greener
- Adams Center Fire Revolver
- Advantages of the Express Rifle
- American Gatling Gun
- American Maynard Rifle
- Attaching Steel Lumps
- Ball Guns for Elephants
- Berdan and Roberts Rifles
- Berdan Cartridge
- Best one for Larger Charges
- Breech Loading Revolvers
- Burton Rifle
- Central Fire Guns
- Colts Revolvers
- Comblain Rifle
- Dimensions of Barrels for Duck Hunting
- Double Grip Systems
- Dougals Lockfast
- Ely, Daw, Boxer Ammunition
- Explosive Shells
- Fosberry Rifle
- French Chassepot
- Galand and Somerville Revolvers
- Gales Method
- Greener’s Strikers
- Gun Cotton
- Gunpowder
- Henry Rifle
- Introduction of the Breech Loading System
- Irish Revolvers
- Jeffries
- Kerr and Wilson Rifles
- Lefaucheuxs and cartridges
- Martini Greener Sporting Rifles
- Military Rifles
- Origin of Rifling
- Peabody and Henry Rifles
- Powell’s Patent Snap Action
- Pyro Pulver
- Schultze Sawdust Powder
- Sharps and Greens Carbines
- Shooting at Wimbledon 1870
- Smith and Wesson Revolvers
- Snider Bullet
- Targets
- The Abbey Breech Loaders
- The Allen
- The Bacon
- The Express Rifle
- The Horsley
- Trajectory
- Turnover and Sling Breech Action
- Unserviceable Actions
- Wedgefast
- Westley Richards Double Guns

