This volume compliments Loading the Black Powder Rifle Cartridge. Specific information for shooters to gain more understanding on the operation and approach to accurate and reliable use of these rifles. (Educational Firearms Historical Reloading)
Table of Contents Chapter 1 The Black Powder Cartridge Rifle 2 The Black Powder Cartridge 3 Bullets, Barrel Twist and Stability 4 The Ammunition 5 Sights and Sighting 6 On the Firing Line 7 Practice 8 The Heritage
I was born November 4,1925, the fourth of seven living children. On April 1, 1925, my parents purchased the old Harvey Mallory farm and blacksmith shop, and it was here and in the surrounding area known as Sheshequin, Pennsylvania that I grew up and still reside with my wife of 63 years, Betty.
I graduated from Ulster High School in June 1943, and on the ninth of that month at the age of 17, started active duty in the Regular Navy. On October 2,1943 I reported aboard the U.S.S. Appalachian,an Amphibious Group Command Ship that took me to the Pacific and invasions of the Marshall Islands, Guam, Leyte, and Luzon. I participated in the occupation of the Japanese Empire and the first two atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. I left the U.S.S. Appalachian on September 10,1946, and was honorably discharged as a Coxswain on October 31,1946.
I married my high school sweetheart, Betty Hotchkiss, on May 11,1946. After discharge from the Navy and a short stint at college in California, I returned to Sheshequin to get a job with Ingersoll-Rand Company, where I worked as a machine operator for seven years, before being transferred to the Technical Publications Department. Here I served as a technical writer and eventually as manager of technical publications.
During my spare time, I worked at writing articles about guns and hunting, two or three novels and embarked on a 3-year Famous Writer's Course. I wrote several articles for Gun Digest and other gun publications, as well as a series of fiction hunting stories for both Shooting Times and the Pennsylvania Game News. I still write for the Game News.
Since retirement in 1982, I have written several small books relative to rifle shooting published by Wolfe Publishing Company, and one published by Exchange Publishers, Inc. In 1992 at age 66, I became involved in black powder cartridge silhouette competition where I participated in 188 matches,setting four new national records and becoming a co-holder on two other national records. Now,at age 83, I still manage to get to the shooting range once or twice a week, weather permitting.
During the early years of my marriage, my wife Betty and I had four children. I always found time to write, with my first article published in the January,1949 issue of Field & Stream. Other articles, short stories and books have followed, and they are still coming!
This review is from: Shooting the Black Powder Cartridge Rifle (Paperback)
Kind of an autobiographical account of Mr. Matthews experiences with these rifles, you get some history of the field and quite a bt of advice on how to do certain things. There's stuff on casting bullets and loading cartridges, shooting advice, some on equipment. What you do not get is a manual on how to take some certain rifle and hit your target when you shoot, there are some tips though.
I wouldn't recommend this book as a one and only do all but it is worth reading.
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This review is from: Shooting the Black Powder Cartridge Rifle (Paperback)
Good book but slow reading. Expected more from someone as famous as he auther. Good information but lacking in so many departments. Leaves you wanting more but more is not forthcoming.
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