Whelen, Townsend — The Hunting Rifle: Design Selection Ballistics Marksmanship

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Stackpole Books, 1999. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Special Limited Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely produced as per usual standards, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only the slightest shelf- and edge-wear to gilt along edges. Featuring moire endpapers, bound-in silk ribbon bookmark, raised bands, all edges gilt, rich, dark brown, colorful leather covers, classy gilt decoration to cover and spine. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Appears to be a reprint, a Special Limited Edition of the 1940 true First Edition. Plentiful black-and-white reproductions. Reprint of Stackpole Sons, 1940 edition. Table of Contents shows: PART I. MATERIEL: 1.) Elementary Ballistics. Safety Precautions -- 2.) Basic Design and Principles -- 3.) Types and Models -- 4.) Barrels and Breech Actions -- 5.) Stocks -- 6.) Iron Sights -- 7.) Telescope Sights -- 8.) Cartridges -- 9.) Hand Loaded Ammunition -- 10.) Killing Power -- 11.) Custom Built Rifles and Cartridges -- 12.) Binoculars, Spotting Scopes, and Accessories ------- PART II. MARKSMANSHIP: 1.) Rifle Marksmanship -- 2.) The Essentials -- 3.) The Prone Position -- 4.) Aiming -- 5.) Trigger Squeeze and Coordination -- 6.) The Rifle Range -- 7.) Sight Adjustment -- 8.) Slow Fire -- 9.) The Sitting, Kneeling, and Standing Positions -- 10.) Snap Shooting and Rapid Fire -- 11.) Trajectory -- 12.) Wind Allowance -- 13.) In the Game Fields -- 14.) Cleaning and Care of Rifles. 463 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine