List
of the Book’s Contents
Book Contents
Acknowledgements, Contents, List of Plates, List of Figures, Forward and Index.
Chapter 1 The Field of Fire:
Variety; Who's Who in the Muzzle Loading Pistol Game?; Courses of Fire -
from Club to World Championships; The MLA 'deliberate fire' competitions; out at
50 yards and beyond; Duelling; What about those revolvers?; 25 metre deliberate
and timed fire; The 25 yd/m deliberate and timed fire ambidextrous match; The
'America' Match; Advancing target; The Bobber; The 'Bow Street Runner'; The
'Cavalry Officer's Match'; The 'Surrenden'; The NRA Open Championship for
Percussion Revolvers; 'Historic revolver'; Shooting those pocket pistols and
revolvers; The Schützenfest; The open and closed shoots; The quote.
Chapter 2 The Classic Single Shot Target Pistol
Starting off; The pistol itself; The lock: The woodwork; The sights; The
trigger; Bedding down; Checking the lock; The grip; Cleaning; The final check;
Making it go 'bang'; Powder selection; Dispensing the powder; The patch; Loading
the ball; The ball; Shooting the beast; Sight adjustment; How do will they
shoot; The quote.
Chapter 3 Those Muzzle Loading Revolvers
An intro to the revolver game; When is an original not an original; To buy
or not to buy; Taking it to pieces; Cleaning; Inspection of new and second hand
revolvers; Variations - originals to repros; Complying with the MLA rules;
Loading; Cap selection; How the S/A revolver works; The cylinder stop; The pawl;
The trigger; Controlling the trigger pressure; on the range; The quote.
The Armourer's Tale and Photoplates
Chapter 4 And then there are Flintlocks
The background; A little tweaking; Preparation; Loading and the load; The ball;
The flint; The frizzen; The touch hole; Priming and the priming powder; Closing
the frizzen; Ignition; Shooting; A final note about cleaning; The end game; The
quote.
Chapter 5 Stories of Recovery
A drop of Bass; the Nock-on effect; The cocked-up Kirner; From cowboys and
indians to a shootable Remington; The pocket revolver; The quote.
Chapter 6 Shooting the Odd Ball through the Odd-balls
Free percussion pistols; Free flint; The New and the Old; Matchlock Pistols
and the Tanzutsu; The Little Muff pistols; The Pepperbox; The 'Transitional'
Revolver; The 120 bore Adams; Gallery Pistols - the 120 bore Lefaucheur and the
Zimmerpistolen; The quote.
Appendices
1 The Set Trigger
2 The Open and Closed Shoots
3 The 'Wish I had Remembered It' List
4 Bore Sizes against Calibres
5 Refinishing - Blueing and Browning
6 Balls, Powders and Velocities
Index
