The Complete Encyclopedia Of Hunting Rifles: A Comprehensive Guide to Shotguns and Other Game Guns from Around the World

by Hartink, A. E.

• ISBN13: 9789036615884
• ISBN10: 9036615887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-31
• Publisher: Book Sales

Summary

These new titles have just arrived in our best-selling Complete Encyclopedia series. These indispensable references are handy and thorough guides with knowledgeable text and hundreds of full color photographs.

Table of Contents

The history of the shotgun	9	(4)
Technical terminology for shotguns and combination weapons	13	(16)
Safety systems	29	(4)
Locking systems in shotguns	33	(4)
Safety in the use of shotguns	37	(2)
Maintenance of shotguns	39	(2)
Shotgun cartridges	41	(16)
Law regarding hunting and shooting	57	(8)
Exploded diagrams of shotgun mechanisms	65	(6)
An A-Z of shotguns and combination guns	71	(241)
American Arms -- Aya	71	(13)
Baikal/Izhevsky Mekhanichesky Zavod -- Browning	84	(47)
Chapuis -- CZ/Brno 55	131	(6)
Dakota	137	(1)
Fabarm -- Frankonia Jagd	137	(32)
Gaucher Armes -- Granger	169	(7)
Harrington & Richardson (H&R)/New England -- Heym	176	(7)
Iga -- Imperator	183	(6)
Kettner -- Krieghoff	189	(14)
Lanber -- Ljutic	203	(17)
Magtech -- Mossberg	220	(20)
Norinco/Norconia	240	(1)
Perazzi -- Powell & Son Gunmakers Ltd.	241	(7)
Remington -- Ruger	248	(23)
Sauer -- Simson/Suhl	271	(3)
Thompson/Center	274	(1)
Ugartechea	275	(4)
Verney-Carron	279	(5)
Weatherby -- Winchester	284	(8)
Zabala Hermanos -- Zoli, Antonio	292	(20)
Acknowledgements	312	(2)
Internet and other useful addresses	314	(1)
Bibliography	315	(1)
Index	316