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Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon 1885 Catalog

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Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon 1885 Catalog

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 20# 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