111 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice photocopy. Printed on high quality 24# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 111

• Ideal Hand Book For Shooters #14
• New Haven, Connecticut
• Preface
• Note to Shooters
• To the Trade
• Kicked like a steer
• How to prepare your own ammunition
• Expansion of Shells
• Resizing and crimping
• The Fit of Bullets
• Casting Bullets
• Express and mushroom Bullets
• Lubrication
• The Ideal Lubricator and Sizer
• How Moulds are made
• Primers
• Shot Range, Armory and Gallery Practice
• The .32 Ideal cartridge
• Everlasting Shells
• Smokeless Powders
• A lead bullet for quick Twist Rifles
• Why a quick twist rifle?
• Drachm Measures
• Model 1899 Loading Machine
• Universal Powder Measure NO 1 and 2 and 3 and 4
• Straightline Re and decapper
• Round Ball for shotguns
• Hot Doughnuts
• Ideal No 1 and 4 Moulds
• Ideal No. 6 Moulds
• Wood Handled Moulds
• Wad cutter
• Dipper, Resizing tools
• Ideal Pocket Loader
• Ideal Pocket Closer
• Ideal Pocket sets complete
• Diamond Crimper
• Ideal #2 and #3 and # 5 and # 8
• Cartridge Tool
• Special List the Ideal Adjustable Mould
• Headless shells us the Ideal #10 Special
• Ideal Bullet Seater
• Kake Kutter
• Model 1899 Loading Machine
• Tools for Paper Shot Shells
• Crimpers, #1, 2, and 3
• Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon 1885
• St. Denis/Paris France
• Descriptions and Illustrations of the Systems
• As Designed for Naval Service, Field Artillery and Flank Defense
• Together with
• Firing Tables, Proving Ground Tests and Official Reports
• As Determined by the Government Firing Grounds of Gavre, Soeburyness, Sany Hok. Pola, Spzia, Helder, Gopenhagen, St. Petersbury and Portsmouth
• By Lieut. Edward Very
• Printed for Private Circulation
• Well Illustrated
• The Development of Machine Guns
• The Different System
• Distinctive Features of the Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon
• Dismounting and Mounting
• Directions for the Care and Cleaning
• Description of the Cartridge, Projectiles and Fuses
• Mounts for the 37mm Naval Gun and 47mm and 53mm and the 37mm Field Gun
• Mounts for the 40mm Flank Defense Gun
• Firing Tables
• Penetration
• Torpedo Boat Experiments
• The Naval Gun in Action at Callao, Sfax, Foo-Chow
• Comparison of the Hotchkiss and Nordenfeldt Guns
• Conclusions of the English Naval Committee in 1881
• Penetration
• Experience with the 47mmm Naval Gun
• Report of the Ordnance Boards, Officers, Brigadier General Miles, the Brazilian Minister
• Theory of the Development
• Official Test
• Weights and Measurements