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The
works cited here all cover small-bore muzzle loading rifles or associated
subjects. The 'General Reference Works' are by their nature less specific
in the coverage of these rifles, but do contain sufficient material
to be of interest.
Small-bore Rifles
- Army Rifles:
Report of the Committee on Small Bore Rifles, and the various Systems
of Rifling as tried last Year - War Office. UK, 19 March 1863
- The Volunteer
Rifles - Cleves H. Howell, Jr. Gun Digest, USA, 1955
- The Muzzle Loading
Small-bore (.451) Rifle 1855-1880 - D.W.Bailey and J.B.Bell. Guns
Review, UK, June 1969
- The Unknown
.451s - D.W.Bailey and J.B.Bell.
Guns Review, UK, December 1970
- British Small-Bore
Rifles - The 451 Muzzleloaders - DeWitt Bailey II. Gun Digest,
USA, 1973
- The
Target Rifle In Australia 1860-1900 - J.E. Corcoran. Dolphin
Press, N.S.W., Australia. ISBN 0 909089 0 1975. Reprinted by R&R
Books, 1995. ISBN 1 884849 17 2
- English Long
Range Percussion Target Rifles and Ammunition - William A. Roberts,
Jr. Muzzle Blasts, USA, February 1979
- Long Range Muzzle
Loading Rifles - Thomas D. Schiffer. Gun Digest, USA, 2003
Henry Rifle
- Alex Henry
- Geoffrey Boothroyd. Guns Review, UK, July 1994
- Longrifles of
Note: Alexander Henry Rifle - Tom Schiffer. Muzzle Blasts, USA,
August 2001
Kerr Rifle
- The London Armoury
Company Kerr Rifle - D.W.Bailey and J.B.Bell. Guns Review, UK,
April 1970
Metford Rifle
- Metford Muzzle-Loading
& Breech-Loading Match & Military Rifles - W.E.Metford. Arrowsmith,
Bristol, UK, c1876 (contains angles of elevation tables, and memoranda
on the management of the rifles)
- Memoir
of William Ellis Metford - T.F.Freemantle. UK, May 1900
- Remembered for
Rifling - Musketeer. Guns Review, UK, February 1963
- Sir Henry Halford's
Rifle (Gibbs-Metford) - John T. Amber. Gun Digest, USA, 1980
- A Gibbs-Metford
Muzzle Loading Match Rifle - George A Hoyem and Elmer Rinas. The
Gun Report, USA, May 1983
Whitworth Rifle
- Report of the
Enfield and Whitworth Committee - War Office. UK, 23 April 1861
- On Fluid Compressed
Steel and Rifled Guns - Sir Joseph Whitworth. Privately printed,
UK, 1872
- Papers
on Mechanical Subjects, Guns and Steel - Sir Joseph Whitworth.
Longmans, London, UK, 1873
- On Fluid Compressed
Steel and Guns - Sir Joseph Whitworth. Minutes of Proceedings Institution
of Mechanical Engineers, UK, 28 July 1875
- Papers on Mechanical
Subjects, Part II: Rifled Small Arms - Sir Joseph Whitworth. London,
UK, 1882
- Memoir of Sir
Joseph Whitworth, BART. William Clowes & Sons, London, UK,
1888
- Joseph Whitworth's
Rifle - Heman L. Harpster. The American Rifleman, USA, August 1932
- A Wimbledon
Prize Rifle of Note - Cleves H. Howell, Jr. The Guns Report, USA,
March 1963
- Whitworth's
Percussion Rifles - D.W.Bailey II. Guns Review, UK, March 1969
- Whitworth Rifle
- J.Morgan Phillips. The Gun Report, USA, December 1969
- The Confederate
Whitworth - Philip Baron Ennis. The Gun Report, USA, June 1970
- The Whitworth
Rifle - DeWitt Bailey II. Gun Digest, USA, 1971
- The
Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters - John Anderson Morrow. Privately
published 1989. Reprinted in 2002.
- The Westley
Richards Whitworth Rifle - Philip Baron Ennis. The Gun Report,
USA, January 1974
- The Whitworth
Rifle - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, September 1992
- Sir Joseph Whitworth
- Geoffrey Boothroyd. Guns Review, UK, July 1994
- The Whitworth
Rifle - Geoff Allen. Classic Arms, UK, August 1994
- Sir
Joseph Whitworth 'The World's Best Mechanician'
- Norman Atkinson. Sutton Publishing, UK. ISBN 0 7509 1211 1
- Sir Joseph Whitworth
- Geoffrey Boothroyd.
Classic Arms, UK, Jan/Mar 1996
- Sir Joseph Whitworth
and His Rifle - Matthew Schneiderman. The Gun Report, USA, February
1999
- Whitworth :
The Man Who Invented Accuracy - Ross Seyfried. Rifle Magazine,
USA, January/February 2003
Reproductions and Shooting
Today
- Captain Heaton
Trophy Match - D.W.Bailey II. Guns Review, UK, November 1969.
- Shooting the
Parker-Hale Volunteer Rifle - Bob Sanderson & Colin Perring. Guns
Review, UK, March 1980
- Parker-Hale
Whitworth Military Target Rifle. American Rifleman, USA, April
1981
- Designing a
Long Range Muzzle Loading Bullet - Bob Sanderson. Guns Review,
UK, August & September 1981
- Parker Hale's
.451 Henry (Volunteer) - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, July 1990
- Ardesa's .451
Creedmoor Match Rifle - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, February 1991
- Ardesa's 'Alexander
Henry' Target Rifle - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, September 1991
- Make Yourself
an Alex Henry - Peter Jacques. Blackpowder, MLAGB, UK, 1992
- The Modern Muzzle
Loader - Andrew Courtney. MLAGB, UK, 1997. ISBN 0 9530541 0 1
- .451 Henry Volunteer
(Parker-Hale) - Leonard Stanley. Target Sports, UK, January 2000
- Long Range Black
Powder Shooting - William A.Roberts, Jr.
Muzzle Blasts, USA, November 1999, December 1999, January 2000
- Artax .451 'Rigby'
Match Rifle - Vince Bottomley. Target Sports, UK, February 2001
- Long Range Shooting
with the Parker Hale Volunteer - Eugene Kuisis.
Muzzle Blasts, USA, March 2001
- Pedersoli "Gibbs"
Long-Range Rifle - Steve Garbe. Black Powder Cartridge News, USA,
Fall 2004.
- An Introduction
to Long Rage Muzzle Loading: Part 1-3 - David Minshall. Target
Sports, UK, May, June & July 2005.
MLAIC World Championships
Creedmoor
- Irish Riflemen
in America - A.B.Leech. Edward Stanford, London, UK, 1875. Reprinted
by Precision
Shooting in a limited edition of 1000 copies, November 2004. ISBN
1 931220 20 4
- American Rifles
and Riflemen. (Remington?), USA, 1876
- Hasty Notes
Of A Flying Trip With The Victorian Rifle Team To Engaland and America
in 1876 - Captain A.Blannin. Melbourne, Australia, 1877
- Americans And
Their Guns - Trefethen/Serven. NRA of America, Stackpole Company,
1967
- Creedmoor and
the Remington Rolling Block - Ray M. Marcot. American Rifleman,
USA, October 2001
- The
Story of Creedmoor - F.Whittaker & D.B.Minshall. Research
Press, UK, 2002. ISBN 1-903860-02-4
- Creedmoor and
the International Matches - David Minshall. Classic Arms, UK
- Part 1 -
A Nation Of Rifleman? January/February 2003
- Part 2 -
A Range Is Born. March/April 2003
- Part 3 -
The Irish Challenge. May/June 2003
- Part 4 -
The 1874 Rifle Championship of the World. July/August 2003
- Part 5 -
The Gauntlet Thrown Down: Dollymount & Wimbledon 1875. Sept/Oct
2003
- Part 6 -
The Grand Centennial Rifle Match: 1876 (Pt.1). November/December
2003
- Part 7 -
The Grand Centennial Rifle Match: 1876 (Pt.2). January/February
2004
- Part 8 -
Great Britain vs USA 1877 (Pt. 1). March/April 2004
- Part 9 -
Great Britain vs USA 1877 (Pt. 2). May/June 2004
- Part 10
- The Decade of Decline. July/August 2004
- Creedmoor
and the International Matches - Internet resource published by
Research
Press 2004
- Creedmoor and
the International Matches - David Minshall. Target Sports. UK
- Part 1 December
2004
- Part 2 January
2005
- Part 3 February
2005
- Irish Riflemen
in America - David Minshall & Rod Scott. Black Powder, UK,
Spring 2005
19th Century Shooting Texts
- The Rifle and
How To Use It - Captain Hans Busk. 1860. Reprinted by Richmond
Publishing Company, USA, 1971
- Handbook for
Hythe - Captain Hans Busk. 1860. Reprinted by Richmond Publishing
Company, USA, 1971
- Manual of Rifling
and Rifle Sights - Lieut.-Col. Viscount Bury, M.P. London, UK,
1864. Reprinted by Ray Riling Arms Books Company, USA, 1971
- Notes on Rifle
Shooting - Captain Heaton. London, UK, 1864. Reprinted by W.S.Curtis
(Publishers) Ltd., 1993. ISBN 0 948216 13 1
- Hand Book of
Rifle Shooting - Alex Lord Russell. Toronto, Canada, 1869. Reprinted
by Museum Restoration Service, Canada, 1989. ISBN 0 919316 96 4
- The Three Rifles
(Snider, Military Small Bore, Match Rifle) - Major Stamford Sheridan
Young. UK, 1877 & 1878. Reprinted by W.S.Curtis (Publishers)
Ltd., 1997. ISBN 0 948216 15 8
- How I Became
A Crack Shot - W. Milton Farrow. Newport, USA, 1882. Reprinted
by Wolfe Publishing Co. Inc. 1980. ISBN 0 935632 02 6
- The Modern Sportsmans
Gunand Rifle. Volume II - The Sporting Rifle, Match Rifle and Revolver
- J.H.Walsh ("Stonehenge"). Horace Cox, London, UK, 1884.
Reprinted by W.S.Curtis (Publishers) Ltd., 1993. ISBN 0 948216 08
5
- Hints and Advice
on Rifle-Shooting - Robert Mcvittie. London, UK, 1886. Reprinted
by W.S.Curtis (Publishers) Ltd., 1993. ISBN 0 948216 12 3
- The
Art of Shooting With The Rifle - Sir Henry St. John Halford. London,
UK, 1888. Reprinted by W.S.Curtis (Publishers) Ltd., 1990. ISBN 0
948216 10 7
General Reference Works
- The Book of
the Rifle - T.F. Freemantle. London, UK, 1901. Reprinted by W.S.Curtis
(Publishers) Ltd., 1988. ISBN 0 948216 06 09
- The National
Rifle Association 1859-1909 - Humphry and Freemantle. Cambridge,
UK, 1914
- The Englishman
and the Rifle - Colonel Lord Cottesloe. Herbert Jenkins, London,
UK, 1945
- The
British Soldier's Firearm, From Smoothbore to Smallbore 1850-1864
- Dr. C.H.Roads. London, UK, 1964. Reprinted by R&R Books,
1994. ISBN 1 884849 13 X
- Percussion Guns
& Rifles - D.W.Bailey. Arms and Armour Press, UK, 1972. ISBN
85368 082 5
- The Queen's
Prize; The Story of the National Rifle Association - Susie Cornfield.
Pelham Books, UK, 1987. ISBN 0 7207 1751 5
- The Literature
of the Volunteers of 1859: Part 1 - The Urge To Volunteer, 1850-1859
- W.S.Curtis. Classic Arms, UK, December 1994
- The Literature
of the Volunteers of 1859: Part 2 - The Volunteers Take Shape - W.S.Curtis.
Classic Arms, UK, January/February 1995
- The Literature
of the Volunteers of 1859: Part 3 - The Volunteers In Being, 1859-1908
- W.S.Curtis. Classic Arms, UK, March/April 1995
- Civil
War Firearms - Joe Bilby. Combined Books, USA, 1996. ISBN 0
938289 79 9
- Fine
Tuning A Slug Gun - Kevin Tinney. Muzzle Blasts, USA, February
1999
- Official NRA
Millenium Souvenir Books (1860-2000). NRA, UK, 2000. ISBN 0 9537492
1 5
- The Small-Bore
Man - David Minshall. Target Sports, UK, April 2003
- Are You Shooting
Comfortably? - David Minshall. Target Sports, UK, November 2003
- Wimbledon: Parts
1-3 - David Minshall. Target Sports, UK, February, March &
April 2004
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