THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 1994. VOLUME FIVE, ISSUES 1-4.

1994 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 of Issue 1 include:- Black and nitro, Damascus and steel; The sniper; Frederick Baker Shell rifle; The Parker mystique; The Tobin Arms Manufacturing Company; A fruitful year in the Horsley Lode; Parker economics; The guns of Ferlach; Your choice; Changing hands; The English taste; The Beesley Shotover; Olowaru; Fine and rare; A deer-sized double rifle; How Buffalo Bob shot the bull; Purdey, London; Ithaca three-barrel guns; 'Natural' or instinctive wing shooting; The art of rebrowning Damascus barrels; My father's Parkers; Double Gun list. Contents of Issue 2 include:- Black and nitro, Damascus and steel by John E. Brindle; Shooting sporting by Randy Lawrence; Musings by Donald R. Whittaker; Dad's gun by Bruce E. Brierley; Jack by Paul G. Brown, M.D. ; Loading and regulating double rifles by Ken Owen; Bird shooting at the Flying B Ranch in Idaho by Stuart M. Williams; The Parker Quality A, No. 1 Special by Ronald L. Kirby; Mister Beesley, life and times by Michael McIntosh; Purdey, London by Geoffrey Boothroyd; George Jeffries of Norwich by David J. Baker; Fox transparencies by Tom Kidd; Rigby .577 by Ross Seyfried; Elegeant Elsie's deluxe quartet by Michael McIntosh; Loading English black powder cartridges by Mel Swanson; Roedl in Prag by Fredrik Franzen; The Sneider of Baltimore by Russ Ruppel; Lou's gun by Shelly Smith; Save the Parker screw by Charlie Price; Another Remington pigeon gun by Charles Semmer; Double Gun List; Advertisers. Contents of Issue 3 include:- Black and nitro, Damascus and steel; Traditional rust blueing; New Ithaca Double Field Grade; W. Foerster, royal gunmaker; The St George's gun; The lightest 12-bore made in America; "Possibly the finest rifle ever made"; Plantation quail; The high grade heavyweights; The engraver's gun; The best little gunhouse in Texas; Pinfire Buck; The gun's story; Elsie's little crown jewel; Loading English black powder cartridges; The Smith gun; Remington date codes on Parker guns; From my scrapbook; My own Ithaca; The N.R. Davis pinfire; Double Gun List. Contents in Issue 4 include:- Spirit of geese - souls of men by William W. Headrick; Parker guns by Edwin D. Muderlak; Westley Richards No. 3158 by Lynton McKenzie; George T. Abbey's patent breechloader by Rick Pratt; How to buy a gun by Tom Kidd; Mexican quail by Stuart M. Williams; Sleeving by Geoffrey Boothroyd; Sauer and Sohn double rifles by Fredrik Franzen; Lefever conversion guns by Buck Hamlin; The joys of Gardonne V.T. by Ross Bruner; Asprey: the gun room by Tony Jackson; Book review [Sacred Trusts edited by Michael Katakis] by Josh Cote; Doubles in the Arctic by Chris McGann; Care and feeding of double rifles by Ross Seyfried; Ithaca gun serial number 193099 by Walter C. Snyder; Wild birds by Dale C. Spartas; A tale of two doubles by Cal Pappas; John Henry Walsh by David Baker; A case of providence in American arms by Wm. M. Furnish and J.A. Nelson; Old Henry by Geoffrey Boothroyd; A rare model 1883 Remington shotgun by Charles Semmer; Double Gun List; Advertisers.