Dangerous-Game Rifles

by Wieland, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780892728077
• ISBN10: 0892728078
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-16
• Publisher: Down East Books

Summary

The popularity of rifles designed to take big game has never been greater. Terry Wieland, a widely recognized firearms expert, explores in detail the rifles and calibers that are drawing attention. This second edition covers what has changed in the field since the first edition was published-new calibers, new cartridges, new guns, new actions-and includes new material on action and barrel manufacture, tracing the production of a fine, custom-made, big-bore rifle.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 5
Preface to the Second Edition	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 12
Genesis
The Rifle to 1898	p. 18
Nitro Express!	p. 37
Double Rifles
The Great English Double: Holland Sc Holland	p. 46
Britain Past & Presentv68
The Continental Divide	p. 80
Buying New & Used	p. 100
Bolt Actions
The Mauser 98	p. 110
The Modern Mauser	p. 123
Mauser's Rivals	p. 130
A Question of Strength	p. 158
Single Shots and Other Players
Single-Shot Rifles	p. 164
Big Bore Lever-Actions	p. 172
Building a Big-Bore Rifle
Granite Mountain and the Mauser 98	p. 184
The Rifled Barrel	p. 191
Stocking the Dangerous-Game Rifle	p. 197
The Custom Rifle	p. 214
Cartridges & Bullets
The Perfect Cartridge	p. 238
Today's Cartridge Makers	p. 248
Smokeless Cartridges for Double Rifles	p. 259
Cartridges for Bolt Actions	p. 272
From Lead to Jackets	p. 295
The Modern Expanding Bullet	p. 304
Put to the Test: The Expanding Bullets	p. 333
Snake Oil and Pumpkin Balls	p. 317
Solids-The Revered "Full Patch&rdquo	p. 344
Using the Dangerous-Game Rifle
Loads 8c Loading	p. 356
Accuracy	p. 371
Sights & Sighting	p. 375
Recoil, Weight, and Balance	p. 394
Practice with a Heavy Rifle	p. 404
The Shooting School	p. 415
Appendices
Ballistic Tables (Federal, Norma, Kynamco, Westley Richards, Hornady)	p. 422
Accurate Arms 5744 Special Loading Note	p. 427
Bibliography	p. 429
Index	p. 431
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