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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX VIII A SELECT CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BIFLE The Art of Deer Stalking, Scrope; London, 1847. Improved American Rifles, Chapman; New York, 1848. Manual of Rifling and Rifle Sights, Bury; London, 1864. Shot Gun and Sporting Rifle, Walsh; London, 1882. Notes on the New Service Rifle, Halford; London, 1888. Modern American Rifles, Gould; Boston, 1892. Big Game Shooting; Badminton Library; London, 1894. Modem Rifle Shooting, Tippins; London, 1895. Notes on the Rifle, Freemantle; London, 1896. Through Equatorial Africa, Foa; London, 1898. Le Fusil a Repetition Mauser; Liege, 1900. The Book of the Rifle, Freemantle; London, 1901. Modern Rifle Shooting, Hudson; Wilmington, Del., 1903. Military Small Arms and Ammunition; London, 1894, 1904. The Reason Why of Rifle Shooting, Davidson; Wilmington, Del., 1908. The Bullet's Flight, Mann; New York, 1909. Sporting Firearms, Kephart; New York, 1912. Small Arms Firing Manual; Washington, 1918. Marine Corps Score Book, Harlee; Philadelphia, 1914. Modern Rifle Exterior Ballistics, Bevis and Donovan; Butte, Mont., 1917. Small Arms Instructor's Manual; New York, 1918. The American Rifle, Whelen; New York, 1918. INDEX Action, automatic, inaccu-racy of, 39--bolt and eccentric posi-tion of cartridge, 45----cartridge tilting in, 45 efficacy of, in Mauser gun, 40----in sand and ice tests, 46 speed of, 44--classes of, 39--concentric, experiments in, 40--cut-off in, for field work, 41--homogeneity of, and the barrel, 44--lever, repeaters, cart-ridge position in, 45----speed of, 44--Mauser, 41----weakness of, 41--positive safety, need for, 46--screw-grip underlever, illustration, facing, 16 in heavy rifles, 46--snap top-lever, illustra-tion, facing, 16 Action, Springfield, weak-ness of, 41 magazine rifle, '03, 43--t...
