USED AMERICAN RIFLE

Description

“Instructions to Young Marksmen in all that Relates to the General Construction, Practical Manipulation, Causes and Liability to Error in Making Accurate Performances, and the Theoretic Principles upon which such Accurate Performances are Founded, as Exhibited in the Improved American Rifle” by John Ratcliffe Chapman. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good condition.

While Chapman recorded the latest improvements in, and the most successful methods of using, the muzzle-loading percussion lock rifles up to 1845, numerous important improvements were made in their fabrication and use between that date and about 1878, when the breech loading rifle had generally supplanted the muzzle loading cap lock rifle. The supplement describes these improvements, the telescopic sights, the methods of using.

Features:

• 544 pages total
• Hardcover