SMALL BORE RIFLE HAND BOOK SHOOTING 1928 WHELEN .22 WINCHESTER REMINGTON SAVAGE

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Small Bore Rifle Handbook

 by Lieut. Colonel Townsend Whelen

Ordnance Department, United States Army

Published by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute, New York, 1928. Presumed First Edition. Very good staple bound paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, light cover wear, previous owner’s signature to front cover, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 38 pages. 

Townsend Whelen (1877 – 1961), was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman.

Whelen was a colonel in the United States Army, and a prolific writer on guns and hunting, writing over two thousand magazine articles in his career. He was a contributing editor to Sports Afield, American Rifleman, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Guns & Ammo, and other magazines, and author of Suggestions to Military Riflemen, The American Rifle, Telescopic Rifle Sights, The Hunting Rifle, Small Arms and Ballistics, Hunting Big Game (of which he was the editor), Amateur Gunsmithing, and Why Not Load Your Own. Whelen edited and wrote the introduction to WDM Bell's autobiography "Bell of Africa" and arranged an American publisher. An expert rifleman with few peers, Whelen could reportedly hit man-sized target at 200 yards using the bolt action, open-sighted M1903 Springfield .30-06 service rifle, scoring six hits in ten seconds flat, and could do it on command.

Colonel Whelen experimented with the service .30-06 Springfield cartridge while he was commanding officer of Frankford Arsenal in the early 1920s. Frankford Arsenal machine shop foreman James Howe, who later formed the rifle-making firm of Griffin & Howe, assisted Whelen modifying the .30-06 case to fire bullets of different calibers. Whelen was particularly interested in creating a cartridge to fire heavier bullets from M1903 rifle actions available from the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

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Small Bore Rifle Handbook

 by Lieut. Colonel Townsend Whelen

Ordnance Department, United States Army

Published by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute, New York, 1928. Presumed First Edition. Very good staple bound paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, light cover wear, previous owner’s signature to front cover, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 38 pages. 

Townsend Whelen (1877 – 1961), was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman.

Whelen was a colonel in the United States Army, and a prolific writer on guns and hunting, writing over two thousand magazine articles in his career. He was a contributing editor to Sports Afield, American Rifleman, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Guns & Ammo, and other magazines, and author of Suggestions to Military Riflemen, The American Rifle, Telescopic Rifle Sights, The Hunting Rifle, Small Arms and Ballistics, Hunting Big Game (of which he was the editor), Amateur Gunsmithing, and Why Not Load Your Own. Whelen edited and wrote the introduction to WDM Bell's autobiography "Bell of Africa" and arranged an American publisher. An expert rifleman with few peers, Whelen could reportedly hit man-sized target at 200 yards using the bolt action, open-sighted M1903 Springfield .30-06 service rifle, scoring six hits in ten seconds flat, and could do it on command.

Colonel Whelen experimented with the service .30-06 Springfield cartridge while he was commanding officer of Frankford Arsenal in the early 1920s. Frankford Arsenal machine shop foreman James Howe, who later formed the rifle-making firm of Griffin & Howe, assisted Whelen modifying the .30-06 case to fire bullets of different calibers. Whelen was particularly interested in creating a cartridge to fire heavier bullets from M1903 rifle actions available from the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

Loc: EPH1-13