THE DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL 2002. VOLUME THIRTEEN, ISSUES 1-4.

2002 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: With double rifle and powder flask in Africa; In a class unto themselves; British doubles from A to Z, Part XIV; The Swedish taste; Why Parker?; Hunting the Nicaraguan quail; Vejprty / Weipert in bohemia; A Paradox goes to Africa; Ansley's final contribution; Ithaca, quality since 1880; shooting driven re-legged partridges in Spain; The year of the .577; A multinational gun; The Horsley sequel; The Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 2 include: No more than expected; Finding out for myself, Part VI; Dunraven's gun; Parker Bros 1879 Quality 5 underlifter 10 bore hammer gun; Holland and Holland original .375 bore revisited; Afield with a British game gun; A gun by Alexis Lemlin; Schivy, a "best" German double rifle; Fox Special Grade and upland game gun; Bottega incisioni di Cesare Giovanelli; Magical Morocco; The L.C. Smith "Special" pigeon gun; The Midland Gun Company; Remington Model 1875, Grade 5; My Russian connection; When a New Yorker made guns in West Virginia, Part I; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 3 include: In memory of William P. Ruger, Sr; In defense of rabbits; British doubles from A to Z, Part XV; Have gun will travel; Remington Model 1894, Grade EEO, 16 gauge; The answer is Ithaca; When a New Yorker made guns in West Virginia, Part II; Hunting red stag in Patagonia; The naturalist's gun; Our trip to Gitchegumee; Reconsidering the Smith; Parker gun gauges over the years; Pairs to die for; Piotti 9492; Late Flues 10 gauge Damascus; British double rifles in .303; Remembering Robert Runge; Opening the Marvin Huey case; Some thoughts on British 12 bore rifles; Response to "Why Parker?"; Double Gun List. Contents of Issue 4 include: The goose of Christmas past; Exceptional British doubles; The short life of the Philadelphia Arms Co; The Souvenir; Remington Whitmore combination gun; Tracing the history of your English gun; Parker A-1 Special, lost and found; The Argentian Grand Slam; Some American lightweights; Fur, feathers, and frontloaders; Double back in Africa, Part I; John Rigby and Co; Jim DeMunck, craftsman, artisan and artist; German double guns; Crass 16 gauge Grade 6; Peter in Wonderland; A new slant on the "wrist breaker"; Double Gun List.