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Curtis & Harvey Ammunition 1889 Notes on Shooting
59 pages, about 8" X 5.5", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a photocopy. Printed on high quality 24# 97 bright acid free paper. Chapter 3 is missing but the page count above and index below are correct.
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Partial Contents List Below:
Curtis & Harvey Ammunition 1889 Notes on Shooting $9.95
Contents Include:
Instructions for the Use of Sporting Gunpowder, Black and Patent
Written by "An old Manufacturer"
Modern Gunpowder and its Manufacturing
Combustion and Range
Pressures in Sporting Guns
Measuring Pressures
Tables of Pressures
Trials and their Results
Recoil and Kick
Brown Powder Pressures
Influence of Shot on Pressures
Influence of Wads on Pressures
Influence of Moisture on Pressures
How to Load With Black Powder
Overloading and Smoke
How to Obtain a Given Velocity
Small Charges
Wads
Hard and Soft Shot
Best Size of Shot
Systematic Loading
Table of Loads
Weight of Powder Charges in Drachms and Grains
Shot Sizes and Weghts
Curtis and Harvey Improved Cartridge Warmer
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