Shotguns - Their History and Development (Shooting Series - Guns & Gunmaking)
Series: Shooting Series
Publisher: Read Country Books
Published: July 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781905124862
Subjects: Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Field Sports; Hunting - General; Shooting; Sports & Recreation / Shooting; Sports & Recreation-Field Sports; Sports & Recreation-Hunting - General
First sentence: FIREARMS were used for the purposes of sport practically as soon as the hand-gun developed out of its original form of a crude short cannon lashed to a wooden handle into the long gun type barrel, fitted with a mechanical device foe the ignition of the charge.