CONTENTS. XI 



BOOK Y. 



THE SPORTING RIFLE. 



CHAPTER I. THE THEORY OF RIFLE SHOOTING, AND 

 THE MODE OF RIFLING THE BARREL. 



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Definition of the Rifle Velocity diminished by Rifling a Smooth 

 Bore Greatest at the moment when the Ball leaves the Muzzle 

 Varieties in the Form of the Grooves almost Infinite The 

 Barrel Method of Rifling Technical Terms 305 



CHAPTER II. THE MUZZLE-LOADING SPORTING RIFLE. 



General Remarks Purdey's Two-grooved Rifle The Single and 

 Double Belted Ball The Enfield Rifle and Pritchett Ball- 

 Lancaster's Oval Spiral General Jacob's Four-grooved Rifle 

 The Four and Five-sided Bore, with Rounded Angles of Major 

 Nuthall and Mr. Boucher Whitworth's Hexagonal Rifle Poly- 

 Grooved Bores Varieties of Balls Single and Double Rifles . 315 



CHAPTER III. BREECH-LOADING RIFLES AND REVOLVERS 



APPLICABLE TO SPORTING PURPOSES. 



General Remarks Prince's Rifle Terry and Calisher's Restell's 

 Leetch's Westley Richards' The Lancaster Needham's 

 The Lefaucheaux Bastin's Gilbert Smith's (American) 

 Sharpe's Revolving Rifles and Pistols 328 



CHAPTER IV. THE ACCESSORIES OF THE RIFLE. 



Bullet-moulds Casting Bullets Swedging Machine Patches 

 Cartridges Ramrods Plain and Telescope Sights Rifle 

 p ow der Flasks Rests 348 



CHAPTER V. CHOICE OF A RIFLE FOR SPORTING 

 PURPOSES. 



Requisites for a Sporting Rifle Comparison of the Three Principal 

 Kinds Final Choice . ... 359 



