Covers topics including individual commentary from Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, Malta, New Zealand, Sweden and the US, Firearms Collecting, the Economic Impact of the Shooting Sports, Histography of the individual right to keep and bear arms, hunting in Europe, and the Sociology of the Shooting Sports and individual firearms ownership.
Helps you to explore different types of firearms, understand crucial safety rules, and learn fundamental shooting skills. This book provides an introduction to a variety of shooting sports through descriptions that relate each type of competition to common everyday activities and interests.
Suitable for children who are beginning to practice one of the many shooting sport disciplines, such as crossbow, archery, rifle, pistol, and target shooting, this title contains information about equipment, techniques and your physical fitness. It offers tips for practicing at home and we will tell you how to recognize and avoid mistakes.
Describes the development of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, explaining how they work, barrels and experiments with obstructions, strengths and weaknesses of military rifles, receiver steels and heat treatment, headspace, recoil problems, gunpowder, corrosion, triggers, and the Pederson Device.
Focuses on making and repairing guns. This book shows the skilled gunsmith how to produce professional-quality work in the various phases of gunwork. It includes instructions on working with metals, chamber and barrel work, and designing and crafting gunstocks, illustrated with diagrams, drawings, and photographs of a variety of firearms.
Intended to provide instruction on using handguns to prevent gun owners from becoming the victims of a criminal or terrorist attack, this handbook contains information on the state regulations, beginning and advanced shooting instruction, updated safety information, and accounts of incidents of concealed handgun self-defence.
A US Navy manual containing the programme used to train ultra-elite Navy SEAL snipers. It leads them through the intense training and offers coverage ranging from crafting effective camouflage, taking a hidden position, and estimating distance to planning a mission, hitting a moving target, and taking down an aircraft.
Secrets of Mental Marksmanship is a guide to developing conscious and subconscious powers that elevate marksmanship practice, training, and performance to the level of expert shooters. Cunningham and Miller both champion shooters and instructors, provide a set of tools that can be used to acquire the skills needed to perform to the best ability.
Containing information on state regulations, beginning and advanced shooting instruction, updated safety information, and accounts of incidents of concealed handgun self-defence, this handbook intends to prevent gun owners from becoming the victims of a criminal or terrorist attack. It also offers advice for selecting and buying a handgun.