The Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly Part IV - Centerfire Rifles. J B Wood

The Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly Part IV - Centerfire Rifles

The Gun Digest® Book of

FIREARMS ASSEMBLY/DISASSEMBLY

Part IV: Centerfire Rifles 2^nd Edition

J.B. Wood

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Acknowledgments

My thanks to these people, who helped to make this book possible:

John S. Yarger, John A. Yarger, James W. Yarger, and Larry McClarney of Lock & Load Gun Shop, Glenn Lancaster, Al Paulsen, Brian Paulsen, Maurice Paulsen, Dr. Kenneth M. Eblen, Paul Thompson of Browning, Dick Dietz of Remington, Harold A. Murtz, Daniel A. Murtz, Thomas G. Goss, Ray Diekmann, George P. Whittington, Carl Bonnell and Jesse Smith of Sportsman's Corner, George Klutey, James S. Priest III, Grover Toalson, W.H. Wood, Marvin Dill, Tony Babbs, A.D. Jenkins, Terry Spainhoward, Merv Chapman of Feather Industries, the family of the late Klee Raleigh, Bob Grueskin of Springfield Armory, Inc., Eric Brooker, Wes Ugalde, Ron Trask, and Bob Gustafson of Thompson/Center Arms, Hunter Kirkland and George “Butch” Winter of Dixie Gun Works, Mike Miller of Calico, Inc., Chuck Karwan, Tony Aeschliman of Marlin, Patrick Squire, Fred W. Dewar, Danny Stone of SOG International, Dave Shellenberg, Syl Wiley and Margaret Sheldon of Sturm, Ruger & Co., Laura Burgess of SIGArms, Dennis Reese of Springfield, Inc., Frank Harris of Auto-Ordnance, Chick Evans, and Charles Brown of Hi-Point Firearms.

Contents

Tools

Argentine Model 1891 Mauser

Austrian Mannlicher Model 1895

British SMLE No. 1, Mark III

Dixie Sharps Model 1874

Egyptian Hakim