The Book of Rifles

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 3
Part 1 The Evolution of Shoulder Arms......Page 6
Ch1 The Origins of Gunpowder & The Gun......Page 7
Ch2 The Development of Shoulder Weapons......Page 12
Ch3 Rifling & Early Repeating Weapons......Page 36
Ch4 The Dawn of the Metallic Cartridge Rifle......Page 41
Ch5 The Development of Bolt Actions......Page 58
Ch6 The Development of the Semi-Automatic Rifle......Page 66
Part 2 Types of Rifle Actions......Page 79
Ch7 Single Shot Rifles......Page 80
Ch8 Repeating Rifles......Page 83
Part 3 The Modern Rifle......Page 94
Ch9 Albania, Ch10 Arabia, Ch11 Argentina......Page 95
Ch12 Austria......Page 98
Ch13 Belgium......Page 117
Ch14 Bolivia, Ch15 Brazil......Page 135
Ch16 Bulgaria......Page 137
Ch17 Canada......Page 138
Ch18 Chile......Page 143
Ch19 Nationalist China......Page 146
Ch20 Communist China, Ch21 Columbia......Page 148
Ch22 Costa Rica, Ch23 Cuba......Page 149
Ch24 Czechoslovakia......Page 150
Ch25 Denmark......Page 159
Ch26 Dominican Republic......Page 170
Ch27 Ecuador, Ch28 Egypt......Page 173
Ch29 Ethiopia, Ch30 Finland......Page 175
Ch31 France......Page 181
Ch32 Germany......Page 201
Ch33 East Germany......Page 253
Ch34 West Germany......Page 254
Ch35 Great Britain......Page 259
Ch36 Greece......Page 289
Ch37 Hungary......Page 295
Ch38 Iran......Page 299
Ch39 Israel......Page 300
Ch40 Italy......Page 301
Ch41 Japan......Page 315
Ch42 North Korea......Page 330
Ch43 Mexico......Page 331
Ch44 Netherlands......Page 334
Ch45 Norway......Page 342
Ch46 Paraguay, Ch47 Peru......Page 347
Ch48 Poland......Page 349
Ch49 Portugal......Page 350
Ch50 Roumania......Page 353
Ch51 Spain......Page 359
Ch52 Sweden......Page 367
Ch53 Switzerland......Page 376
Ch54 Turkey......Page 399
Ch55 USSR......Page 404
Ch56 USA......Page 443
Ch57 US Cartridges......Page 533
Ch58 Uruguay, Ch59 Venezuela, Ch60 Yugoslavia......Page 578
Ch61 Ammunition......Page 582
App 1 Glossary......Page 590
App 2 The Williams Floating Chamber......Page 619
App 3 Double Barreled & Three Barreled Rifles......Page 621
App 4 Paradox Guns, App 5 Rifle-Shotgun Combinations, App 6 Rifled Shotgun Slugs......Page 622
App 7 Morris Tube Guns, App 8 The Rifles of Peter Paul Mauser......Page 623
App 9 The Rifles of Ritter Von Mannlicher......Page 628
App10 German Small Arms Manufacturers Codes......Page 632
App 11 Foreign Rifle Markings......Page 635
App 12 Australian, Indian, & Philippine Rifles......Page 643
App 13 Latest US Sporting Rifles......Page 646
Index......Page 677