THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 1996. VOLUME SEVEN, ISSUES 1-4.

1996 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: Teaching pteryplegia; A Sprouts Creek grouse; Shooting decoys with my daughter; C.E. discovered; Big Bend Ranch; All-American game gun; J.F. Timpfe Hofbuchsenmeister Berlin; Parker A-1 Special, one of a provenanced pair; Sempert and Krieghoff, Suhl; To do or not to do; Double rifles for American game; The wreck of 956; Remington Model 1894, Grade EE; Argentina and Urguay doves; Skimin and Wood and the two-inch twelve bore; The magistrate's magnificent pinfire guns; The House of Churchill; The Charles Lancaster; The MacNaughton action; Remington Model 32; The Parker paper trail; Introducing the Lenzmeier Collection; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 2 include: The importance of shotgun patterning; Mbago, the story of a buffalo; In the land of Mearns; The five pound Purdey; A tale of two doubles; Tower shooting; Impressions of driven grouse; Target guns; An unusual Greener; Ferlach Bock-Drilling; An English alliance; Rock Springs Ranch; Le BonVieux Dame; The sport of Spanish kings; Excellentia!; Hartmann and Weiss makers of best quality guns only; Entrance to a grouse covert; The Partnership of Nicholas and Lefebvre, 1876-1879; Remington Model 1889, Grade 5; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 3 include: Viva Las Vegas; Gun case labels; D.M. Lefever, Auburn, NY; British study behaviour of nontoxic shot; House style; The Vanguard; Transitions, double rifles, from black to nitro; The Dodge DeLuxe Duo; The Joseph Lang Vena Contracta; Remington doubles; A great Bob Owen masterpiece; A guided tour of Konopiste Castle; Shooting tools; Safari, in the Zambesi River escarpment of Zimbabwe; The Parker Trojan; Reboring a double rifle; Bengt Berg's fantastic set of Simson guns; Beaver Dam revisited; British doubles from A to Z; My Ithaca Destiny; The knowledge; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 4 include: The colour case hardening of firearms, Part I; The Hal Howard gun; British doubles from A to Z; Mabel Re Label turns sporter; At Del Grego's, Part I; Trick or treat; Partridge shooting in the Andes mountains of Peru; The Cordite Express; The .600 Nitro; Dove doubles from fourteen to four-ten; The Connecticut shotgun Mfg Co brings back the fox; A rifle of the Raj and the Indian antelope; All American double rifle; L.C. Smith 10 Gauge Ideal / Speciallity Grade shotguns; Matched pairs; Double Gun List.