Shooting The Buffalo Rifles Of The Old West (Hard Cover)

Details the 'Big Bore' single shot rifles used in the 1870s in the American West. Chapters on Sharps, Remingtons, Ballards, & Trapdoor Springfields, plus reloading buffalo rifle calibers ranging from the .40/70 Bottleneck to the .50/90 Sharps. Additional chapters cover competition quality reloading, match shooting, the making & loading of paper patch bullets, modern hunting, bison hunting today, sighting equipment, buffalo hunters of old, and even more. Hardcover, 300pp.