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Contents Introduction 3 Chapter 1 The roots of reach 5 A gray goose wing 5 A flash and a bang 6 Rifles to tame a frontier 8 Chapter 2 Metallic cartridge muscle 10 Rifles that fired all week 10 Sharps, for the buffalo 11 Browning genius, Winchester jackpot 14 Chapter 3 Stretching the range in the 20th century 17 Charles Newton: rifles ahead of their time 17 Birth of the Rifleman's Rifle 19 Remington: artillery for the working class 21 Chapter 4 Long-range specialists 24 Roy sells the long shot 24 The Gibbs phenomenon 26 Better across the beanfield 28 David Miller's formula for deer too far to shoot 30 Chapter 5 More gunshop magic 32 The long arm of Les Baer's AR-15 32 Texas Light 34 The Sisk shop and railroad 37 Chapter 6 Actions, barrels and cartridges 39 Details at the breech 39 Getting bullets to fly true 42 Short hulls for long hits 46 Shooting for sissies 50 Chapter 7 Performance by the numbers 52 Ballistics, briefly 52 Velocity variables 55 Through the turbid sea 58 Chapter 8 Big game rounds with reach 62 Deer at a distance 62 Upping the ante: elk 68 Time to turbocharge 90 Bullets, specifically 100 Chapter 9 Loading up 104 Reaching far with the .30-06 and .270 104 The 6mms, gently 108 Quarter-bores 110 Modesty goes ballistic: the 6.8 SPC 113 Seven-millimeter magic 116 .30 magnums for the longest shot 118 Big bores: practical and tactical 121 Handguns in tall company 124 Wyoming stretches the .500 S&W 127 Chapter 10 Sights and sighting 130 Scope features that count 130 The long zero 133 Shot angle and the little red eye 137 Chapter 11 Shooting technique 140 Get your rest 140 A bench of bone 142 Bandits, bucks and bullseyes 145
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Shooting.
Hunting guns.