Manual For Rifle Practice

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This guide provides detailed instructions on how to effectively use and maintain modern breech-loaders, a type of rifle that was becoming increasingly popular during the late 1800s. It covers topics such as shooting techniques, target practice, ammunition selection, and gun care. A valuable resource for both novice and experienced shooters. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Manual For Rifle Practice: Including Suggestions For Practice At Long Range And For The Formation And Management Of Rifle Associations 6 George Wood Wingate W.C. & F.P. Church, 1878 Sports & Recreation; Shooting; Rifle practice; Sports & Recreation / Shooting; Technology & Engineering / Military Science

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... 332) issued from the Adjutant-General's office, naming Adjutant-General Irvine, CommissaryGeneral of Ordnance Palmer, Colonel William G. Ward, of the Twelfth N. T. S. N. G.; Colonel George M. Baker, of the Seventy-fourth, and Inspector-General Burt, "a commission to make examination and trial of the recent inventions and improvements in breech-loading military small arms, and especially of such inventions and improvements as have been made for alteration of the muzzle-loading military arms now in use." After a number of sessions, lasting from November 29, 1866, to December 11, 1868, during which seventeen plans for transformation were presented, conspicuous among winch were the Allin, Berdan, and Roberts, besides ten arms entered as "not specially adapted to conversion," the most notable being the Remington, Peabody, and Sharps, the board, by its report, dated May 18, 1867, reported to the Adjutant-General favorably to the Roberts for transformation, and to the Remington in "order of merit of original arms not adapted to conversion." This official determination was, however, inoperative, owing to circumstances which need not be recited, and the subject of re-armament was suspended from official consideration until the winter of 1871. The Legislature of that year having appropriated the sum of $250,000 for the purchase of a complement of breechloaders for the National Guard, in accordance with the provisions of the bill, a board was constituted, by order of the Commander-in-Chief, of the following members: Franklin Townsend, adjutant-general; James McQuade, inspectorgeneral; Samuel William Johnson, chief of ordnance; with instructions "to examine into the merits of various kinds of breech-loading rifled muskets, and to report the result...

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