TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY JIM CARMICHEL

AUTHORS PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE PERFECT HUNTING RIFLE

BARRELS, BORES, AND TWIST RATES

SHAPE AND FORM

THE RIFLE ACTION

WEIGHT AND BALANCE

SIGHTS AND STOCKS

TRIGGERS AND TRIGGER PULLS

VELOCITY

CARTRIDGES

RECOIL AND RECOIL REDUCTION

CHAPTER I. STALKING-RIFLE PERFECTION, BY JAMES WOODWARD

CHAPTER II. WINCHESTERS MODEL 1892—ERGONOMICS, AHEAD OF ITS TIME

CHAPTER III. HOLLANDS .500

CHAPTER IV. THE MILITARY BOLT ACTIONS

CHAPTER V. STEYR AND THE MANNLICHERS

CHAPTER VI. HIGH VELOCITY

CHAPTER VII. WHAT PRICE GLORY?

SIR CHARLES ROSS AND THE FABULOUS .280

CHAPTER VIII. THE .250-3000: SAVAGES VELOCITY KING

CHAPTER IX. FEATHERWEIGHTS: DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPT

CHAPTER X. ELUSIVE PERFECTION: THE CUSTOM RIFLE

CHAPTER XI. WALNUT—THE WOOD OF KINGS

CHAPTER XII. THE MAUSER 98

CHAPTER XIII. THE FN MAUSER

CHAPTER XIV. THE MAGNUM MAUSER

CHAPTER XV. A NORDIC SYMPHONY: SCHULTZ & LARSEN, NORMA ÅMOTFORS, AND PHILIP B. SHARPE

CHAPTER XVI. SCOPES AND MOUNTS

CHAPTER XVII. BITS, PIECES, AND ACCOUTREMENTS

CHAPTER XVIII. THE MODERN HUNTING RIFLE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX