WEAPONS (INFANTRY)

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• Benton, Brevet-Col.J.G.."Chapter VII. Pyrotechny,"Ordnance and Gunnery (1867); 40 Pages, 17 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No. 20507} [Includes: Definitions Buildings &c.: How arranged, Furnaces, Precautions. Materials: Classified, 1st Class, 2d Class, 3d Class, 4th Class Preparing cartridges, &c..;Ammunition for Small Arms: Bullets, Cartridge, Buckshot cartridge, Packing, Pistol cartridge, Percussion caps, Maynard's primer. Field and Mountain Ammunition: Composition, Stand of ammunition, Strapped ammunition, Packing &c.;Siege and Sea Coast Ammunition: Cartridge bags, Strapping shells &c., Filling shells, Wads. Military Fireworks: Comprise what, Composition, For ammunition, Slow match, Quick match, Port fires, Friction tube, Fuzes, Bormann fuze, Sea coast fuze, Concussion fuze, Percussion fuze. Fireworks for Signals: Signal rockets, Blue light. Incendiary Fireworks: Fire stone, Carcass, Incendairy match, Hot shot. Fireworks for Light: Fire ball, Light ball, Tarred links, Pitched fascines, Torches. Offensive and Defensive Fireworks: Bags of powder, Light barrel. Ornamental Fireworks: Object, &c., Lance, Petard, Gerbe, Flame. Movable Pieces: Sky rocket, Tourbillion, Saxon, Jets, Roman candles, Paper shell, Decorative pieces, For communicating fire, General remark.]
• Bruff, Capt. Lawrence."Small Arms," Ordnance and Gunnery (1896), Chapter IX.; 37 pages, 20 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20550} [Includes: 306. Principal parts - The barrel - Calibre - Recoil, 307. Reduction of weight of bullet - First method - Decreasing the length, keeping the diameter constant, 308. Reduction of weight of bullet - Second method - Decreasing diameter, keeping length constant, 309. Reduction of weight of bullet - Third method - Changing length and diameter - Smokeless powder - Advantages of reduction of calibre - Flatness of trajectory, 310. Advantages of reduction of calibre - Decrease in weight of cartridges - Increase of accuracy of fire - Increased penetration, 311. Disadvantages of reducing the calibre, 312. Rifling - Pitch - Number of grooves and lands - Width - Depth - Direction of twist, 313. Profile of chamber - Thickness and length of barrel, 314. The receiver - General features - Receiver for Springfield rifle, 315. Receiver for Cal. .30, 316. Breech mechanism - General classification - Sliding mechanism, 317. Rotating mechanism, 318. Requirements of a good breech mechanism, 319. Breech mechanism of Springfield rifle, Cal..45, 320. Breech mechanism of the cal. .30 rifle - The bolt, 321. Breech mechanism Cal..30 - The sleeve - The extractor, 322. Firing mechanism - General Principles - Conditions for good firing mechanism - Firing mechanism of springfield rifle, 323. Firing mechanism of the Cal..30, 324. Sights - General principles - Position, 325. Sights for Springfield rifle - Sights for the Cal..30; 326. The stock and mountings]
• Bruff, Capt. Lawrence."Ammunition," Ordnance and Gunnery (1896), Chapter IX.; 8 pages, 10 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20552} [Includes: 335. History - Advantages and disadvantages of metallic cartridge cases - Folded head cartridge, 336. Folded head cup anvil cartridge - Solid head cartridge, 337. Components of the cartridge - The bullet - The powder, 338. Components of the cartridge - The case - The primer]
• Delafield, Richard, Major."Report,"The Art of War in Europe in 1854; 3 pages, 17 illustrations  Price .50 {Item No.22303} [Artillery, Siege of Sebastopol, a lot on the Rifled Bullets used in various European Armies]
• Lissak, Ormond M.."Small Arms and their Ammunition," Ordnance and Gunnery (1915), Chapter XV; 23 pages, 20 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20575} [Includes: Service small arms, The 38 caliber revolver, The Colt automatic pistol, Modern military rifles, Requirements, Life of the rifle, Erosion, The U.S. magazine rifle, model 1903, Appendages, Deviation, Drift, The 22 caliber gallery practice rifle. Ammunition for the 30 caliber magazine rifle, The ball cartridge, Bullets, The Blank cartridge, The dummy cartridge, The guard cartridge, Proof of ammunition]
• Underwood, Captain Arthur R.."The Queen and the Cartridge," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.45, No.2 (April 1955); 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.10699} [The T65 ball rifle cartridge as replacement for the M1 ball cartridge]
• Underwood, Jr.,Captain A.R.."From Ball to Boattail," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.45, No.3 (July 1955); 7 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10715} [A short history of bullets] [Including: Introduction, Roger Bacon's Formula, Those abominable bullets, Kentucky riflemen lead the way, The modern bullet takes shape, The Minie, Enter General Jacob, Houiller's cartridge, The big switch, What Now?]
• Underwood, Captain Arthur R.."Powders and Primers,"Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.46, No.2 (April 1956); 6 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.10776} [A brief history of weapon propellants and primers]
• War Department, Ordnance Office. "Cartridges--Friction Primers. Military cartridges for breech--loading small arms in the United States service," Ordnance Notes.---No.185 (Washington, 3 April, 1882) by Lt.Col.James M.Whittemore, Ordnance Department; 6 pages Price .50 {Item No.5185} [Also on friction primers for cannons]
• Reports of the United States Commissioners. " Projectiles," Volume V. Report on the Munitions of War. Chapter V., Paris Universal Exposition, 1867; 13 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.5335} [Includes: Pallisar projectiles, Oblique firing, Palliser and Whitworth 7-inch shot, Accuracy, Shrapell and segment shell, Parachute light-ball, Whitworth case shot, Gun cotton, Explosive rifle bullets]
• Reports of the United States Commissioners. "Cartridges," Volume V. Report on the Munitions of War, Chapter I., Paris Universal Exposition, 1867 ; 8 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.5331} [Includes: Use of Metallic Cartridges, American cartridge, Boxer cartridge, Chassepot cartridge, Needle-gun cartridge, Daw’s cartridge]
• War Department, Military Intelligence Division. "Don’t Tamper with Japanese Explosive Bullets," Intelligence Bulletin Vol.III, No.5 (January 1945); 4 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5932} [On Japanese WWII Forces][Includes: Explosive 7.62 and 7.7 bullets, 50-mm Smoke Grenade]
• War Department, Ordnance Office. "Reloading Tools. Instructions for use of the Frankford Arsenal Hand Tools for Reloading Cartridges," Ordnance Notes.---No.231 (Washington, 17 November 1882) Prepared by Major S.,C. Lyford, Ordnance Department; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.5231} [A set of tools designed to reload .45 caliber cartridge, using either the 405 or 500 grain bullet with 55 or 70 grains respectively of stand powder] [Includes: Nomenclature of tools, Care and preservation, Reloading operations, Special precautions, Cleaning, Inspection, Resizing, Scraping, Priming, Charging, Loading, Crimping, Lubrication, General remarks]

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