Modern Shotguns and Loads

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com This is a facsimile of the 1929 book by Colonel Charles Askins, Modern Shotguns and Loads. This book covers shotguns, their shooting, and the ammunition used in them. All matter of American shotguns are described, double, single, automatic, and pump, their models, makes, and mechanism. Askins levels criticisms and praise where it is due based on his years of experience and expertise with shotguns. Time is devoted to the history of the shotgun, the modern shotgun designs of the time, the different gauges, and ammunition—both factory and hand-loaded. The second half of the book covers the use of shotguns, techniques for wing shooting, and the shooting of different game birds.