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

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 130

• Blake Rifle Book #3
• New York, New York
• (London at Bland and Sons, Paris at American Arms and Cairo at Lawrence &Mayo, Manton in Calcutta, Hollis in Bombay)
• Grades and prices
• Guns made by John Henry Blake
• Introduction
• Innovations make it the chosen rifle
• Charging, Positive Movement, Light recoil
• Description of the Systems
• Cut-off Magazine, Bolt Action, Easy cleaning
• Advantages of the Blake Rifle
• Cylindrical packet of cartridges
• Uniform Balance
• Variety of Ammunition
• Accuracy
• Simplicity
• Easy removal of Jams
• Easy to make replacement parts
• Ammunition
• Cartridge Price List
• Picture of Cartridges, Nomenclature
• Antelope Grade Hunting rifle
• Specifications
• About the Prong Horn Antelope
• Caribou Grade Hunting Rifle
• Specifications the Blake Caribou
• About the Caribou or American Reindeer
• Elk Grade
• Specifications Elk Blake Hunting Rifle
• The Blake Sporting Rifle with Lyman Sights
• The double English Express
• Deer Grade Blake Rifle with Specifications
• Moose Grade Blake Rifle
• Grizzly Grade and Tiger Grade Double English express
• Lion Grade Double English Hammerless Express
• Bison Grade and Rhino Grade Hammerless Express
• Elephant Grade Repeater or double English
• Reloading implements Ideal
• The Blake Rifle Model 1903
• Sights by Lyman
• Blake Ring Target
• The Blake Wolf Target
• Animal Targets
• Velocity of Cartridges and Trajectory
• The Blake Carbine
• The Blake .400 with 30 inch barrel
• New York State Tests of 1896
• By John Henry Blake
• Improved guns in Raw hands by the New York Recorder may 1896
• Factory in Rochester in the Spanish American War
• The Blake Infantry Rifle and Knife Bayonet
• The Power of Blake Rifles
• The Revolver department
• S & W Hammerless .38
• Colt New Pocket and Automatic Pocket, Sporting, Military
• Mauser Automatics and Carbines
• H & R Hammerless and New Model Premier
• Remington Single Shot Rifle
• Stevens Crack Shot for Boys
• Covers and Cases
• Rifles, Remarks on their Historical Development by F. N. Maude
• The Tower Musket from the Niagara Frontier
• The Mannlicher Rifle
• The Henry Rifle and Kentucky Deer Rifle
• Turkish Calvary Blunderbuss
• Famous Rifles
• Halles, Pauly, Minie, Spencer, Henry, Whitworth, Synder, Remington
• Sharps, Gortoff, Berdan, Maynard, Laidleys Rifle, Burnsides, Roberts,
• Prussian Needle Gun, French Chassepot, Peabody
• The Springfield Rifle Buffington Sights
• The Spanish Mauser
• French LeBel Rifle
• Krag Jorgensen
• The Daudeteau Rifle
• Japan Arisaka Rifle
• Russian 3 line Rifle
• Infantry Rifles of the Nations 1904