THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 1993. VOLUME FOUR, ISSUES 1-4.

1993 issues 1-4. 4to perfect bound magazines (213 x 275mm). 150+ pages each. Colour photographs and artwork throughout. Pictorial gilt tan covers, gilt titles to spine.

A lavish, beautifully illustrated magazine devoted to sporting guns and related art. Contents in Issue 1 include: Contents of this issue include: More on lead; Getting to the heart matter; A remnant of the pleistocene; J.P. Sauer and Sohn, Suhl; Dad's old gun, poem; Julia Armour, International Competidora de Tiro Pichon!; A.A. Brown and Sons, Birmingham; Birth of the XE Grade; Portals to grandeur; A Greener big game rifle; Horsley Number 3631, Yorkshire Hills to Dakota Hills; A Hill Prayer, poem; John Brown's gun; Sotheby's Gleneagles sale; Visual delights for Ithaca gun collectors; Remington 18974 D Model shotguns; A lunch-box Parker?; Chamberless shotguns and their brass shotshells; Book reviews; Double Gun List. Contents in Issue 2 include: Contents of this issue include: A gun tour round Mother Russia; Driven pheasants on the Plains of Moravia; Staying out of jams on preserves; The Dickson 'round' action; An affair with the pinfire; A Parker gun display; High Holt; Beginning again; Primo Lusso Duo; 'The Sidecocker'; L. Brancquaert Bruxelles; Lancaster four barrel guns; James Woodward's 'automatic' double rifle; The guns and the game; Shooting them still; 'Fox nuggets'; The Colt doubles; The tie that binds; Black powder and smokeless, Damascus and steel; That first big win; A Remington double modified in Englad; The Kreger Collection; Book review; Double Gun List. Contents in Issue 3 include: The new Bismuth non-toxic shot by Ron Forsyth; The life, times and rebirth of Greener Empire Gun #63419 by Eric Levy; The Sterling love affair by Tom Kidd; Under the hammer by Douglas Tate; Gun review: Merkel 147E by Larry Brown; A note on shotshells by William M. Furnish; Black powder and smokeless, Damascus and steel by John Brindle; The drilling by Fredrik Franzen; They called him "Charley Boswell" by David J. Baker; Preparing for Europe by Donald R. Whittaker; Western Arms Corporation's long range double by Walter C. Snyder; Book review [Birds on the Horizon by Stuart Williams] by Bill Baines; German ingenuity by Bill Dowtin; Jewels of the stone age by Michael McIntosh and William W. Headrick; The Parker Brothers 18-bore by Keith Kearcher; Hard to hit by Robin Lacy; Those wonderful black powder double rifles by John Curnow; Sideplate Lefevers by Ithaca by Buck Hamlin; Browsing by Geoffrey Boothroyd; Remington double shotgun markings by Charles Semmer; Double Gun List; Advertisers. Contents in Issue 4 include: Allegheny Highland fling by Randy Lawrence; The "Special .S." by Tom Kidd; Back to New England by Dale Spartas; Metamorphosis by Larry Catlett; The double rifle drilling by Fredrik Franzen; The Scotsman and the Boss over-under gun by Donald Dallas; Stock wood for "Best Guns" by Bill Dowtin; Handloading for double rifles by Keith McCafferty; Birth of a gun collector by David J. Baker; William Powell and Son Ltd. by Vic Venters; An American classic by Gary Chang; Remember when... by William W. Headrick; Thinking of where we've been by Michael McIntosh; The Christmas goose by Ross Seyfried; Argentina wingshooting fiesta by Stuart Williams; The Churchill Zenith, Part I by Geoffrey Boothroyd; Mexico City revisited by Donald Whittaker; The Parker fish-tail top lever by Charlie Price; Frank Knickerbocker by Walter C. Snyder; Remington Arms "OC" double shotguns by Charles Semmer; Double Gun List; Advertisers.