207 pages, about 11" x 8", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice original lent to us... Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 207

• Hand Book for Hythe - The School of Musketry of the British Army 1860
• By Hans Busk
• A Familiar Explanation of the Laws of Projectiles
• Want of Skill in Musketry
• Choice of a Rifle
• Koster of Nuremberg
• Gathering Twist
• Requisites of a rifle
• The Enfield Rifle
• Jacob Rifle
• Whitworth Rifle
• Weight essential
• Sights
• Trajectories
• Robin's Researches
• Projectiles
• Aiming Drills
• Faggot Butt
• Signal Flags
• History of Weaponry
• Major Nuthall's Swedge
• Cartridges
• Haltzapffel's Stadium
• Porro Teleometer
• Judging Distance
• Archery
• Capt Norton's Elongated Bullets
• New Regulation Minie
• Delvigne System of Expansion
• Gunpowders
• Combustion
• War Office Circulars
• Rifle Ranges and Screens
• Glossary of Terms
• The Rifleman's Knife