Revolver

Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444002409

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Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick Pdf

Sig Andersson has a choice to make - use the gun or die. An unforgettable, razor-sharp psychological thriller set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle. Recipient of a Michael L. Printz Honor 2011, shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010 and longlisted for the GUARDIAN Children's Fiction Prize 2010. 1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for the corpse of his father, who died earlier that day after falling through a weak spot on the ice-covered lake. His sister, Anna, and step-mother, Nadya, have gone to the local town for help. Then comes a knock at the door. It's a man, the flash of a revolver's butt at his hip, and a mean glare in his eyes. Sig has never seen him before but Wolff claims to have unfinished business with his father. As Sig gradually learns the awful truth about Wolff's connection to his father, his thoughts are drawn to a certain box hidden on a shelf in the storeroom, in which lies his father's prized possession - a revolver. As the stakes rise and Wolff begins to close in, Sig's choice is pulled into sharp focus. Should he use the gun?

Author : Jim Rasenberger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501166396

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Revolver by Jim Rasenberger Pdf

Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without reloading. Its most immediate impact was on the expansionism of the American west, where white emigrants and US soldiers came to depend on it, and where Native Americans came to dread it. In making the revolver, Colt also changed American manufacturing, and revolutionized industry in the United States. Rasenberger brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. During an age of promise and progress, and also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, Colt not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.-- adapted from info provided

Author : Donald L. Ware
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0826342809

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Remington Army and Navy Revolvers, 1861-1888 by Donald L. Ware Pdf

This detailed history of Remington's role in the development of military weapons is the result of twenty-five years of research of the company's records and military archives.

Author : Mike Cumpston,Johnny Bates
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Pistols
ISBN : 9780595357963

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Percussion Pistols and Revolvers by Mike Cumpston,Johnny Bates Pdf

In the early transition from the long-lived flintlock system, handgun development closely paralleled that of the long arms. With the advent of the revolving pistols, however; came patents that created monopolies in revolver production and the through-bored cylinder necessary for self-contained metallic cartridges. The caplock revolvers took on a separate evolution and remained state of the art long after the widespread appearance of cartridge firing rifles and shotguns. They rode in the holsters of of explorers and adventurers across the world and granted safe conduct in the back-alleys of the Industrial West right up until the last quarter of the 19th Century. Handguns possess a mystique distinctly different from that of other firearms. They are tools of personal empowerment-chosen by their owners to provide independence and freedom of movement. In the ambitious, optimistic early years of western industrial civilization they were the emblem of liberty and equality and the bane of repressive governments and social movements. Largely because of the traditions that emerged in the time of the caplock pistols and revolvers, they remain so in the early years of the 21st Century.

Author : Robert Maze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780968865

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The Webley Service Revolver by Robert Maze Pdf

The Webley .455in service revolver is among the most powerful top-break revolvers ever produced. First adopted in 1887, in various marques it was the standard-issue service pistol for British and Commonwealth armed forces for nearly fifty years; later versions in .38in calibre went on to see further service in World War II and beyond, as well as in a host of law-enforcement roles around the world into the 1970s. Developed to give British service personnel the ability to incapacitate their opponents in 'small wars' around the globe, the Webley used the formidable – and controversial – .455in cartridge, a variant of which was known as the 'manstopper'. Users found it offered good penetration and excellent stopping power with only mild recoil – indeed, it was rated superior to the US .45 Colt in stopping power. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and close-up photographs, this is the compelling story of the Webley revolver, the powerful pistol that saw service across the British Empire and throughout two world wars.

Author : Arthur Corbin Gould
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547223856

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The Modern American Pistol and Revolver by Arthur Corbin Gould Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Modern American Pistol and Revolver" by Arthur Corbin Gould. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Duane Swierczynski
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316403221

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Revolver by Duane Swierczynski Pdf

Three generations torn apart--by bullets fired fifty years ago. Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops--one black, one white--are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy. Philadelphia, 1995: Homicide detective Jim Walczak learns that his father's alleged killer, Terrill Lee Stanton, has been sprung from prison. Jim stalks the ex-con, hoping to finally learn the truth. Philadelphia, 2015: Jim's daughter Audrey, a forensic science student, re-opens her grandfather's murder for a research paper. But as Audrey digs deeper, she comes to realize that Stanton probably didn't pull the trigger--and her father may have made a horrible mistake...

Author : Robert Maze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849088046

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The Webley Service Revolver by Robert Maze Pdf

The Webley .455in service revolver is among the most powerful top-break revolvers ever produced. First adopted in 1887, in various marques it was the standard-issue service pistol for British and Commonwealth armed forces for nearly fifty years; later versions in .38in calibre went on to see further service in World War II and beyond, as well as in a host of law-enforcement roles around the world into the 1970s. Developed to give British service personnel the ability to incapacitate their opponents in 'small wars' around the globe, the Webley used the formidable – and controversial – .455in cartridge, a variant of which was known as the 'manstopper'. Users found it offered good penetration and excellent stopping power with only mild recoil – indeed, it was rated superior to the US .45 Colt in stopping power. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and close-up photographs, this is the compelling story of the Webley revolver, the powerful pistol that saw service across the British Empire and throughout two world wars.

Author : Ed McGivern
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 160239086X

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Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern Pdf

Ed McGivern needs no introduction to gun enthusiasts and serious marksmen. For more than 50 years he was revered as one of the top authorities in the field of small firearms. A world champion marksmen who made The Guinness Book of World Records, he trained scores of law enforcement officers and developed a system of teaching that is as effective today as it was when this book was originally published. It resulted from years of experimentation and research conducted by McGivern, who utilized electric timers and other devices to determine the angles and techniques that would produce the fastest, most accurate revolver shooting. Packed with handgun lore and original photographs from the first edition, this much-sought-after classic contains a wealth of facts for marksmen everywhere.

Author : Robyn Schiff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781587297601

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Revolver by Robyn Schiff Pdf

As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff’s Revolver “repeats fire without reloading” as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later. A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and unnerving rumination on multipurpose campaign furniture, and a breathless account of Ralph Lauren’s silver Porsche 550 Spyder are among the collection’s exhilarating corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems. The long, lavish, and utterly unpredictable sentences that Schiff has assembled contort as much to discover what can’t be contained as what can. This is a book of extremes relentlessly contemporary in scope. And like the eighty-blade sportsman’s knife also described here, Revolver keeps opening and reopening to the daunting possibilities of transformation—“Splayed it is a bouquet of all the ways a point mutates.” from “Silverware by J. A. Henckels” Let me be as streamlined as my knife when I say this. As cold as my three-pronged fork that cools the meat even as it steadies it. A pettiness in me was honed in this cutlers’ town, later bombed, in which Adolf Eichmann, who was born there alongside my wedding pattern, could hear the constant sharpening of knives like some children hear the corn in their hometowns talking to them through the wind. The horizon is just the score they breathe through like a box of chickens breathing through a slit.

Author : Martin J Dougherty
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781782742661

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Pistols and Revolvers by Martin J Dougherty Pdf

From a Thirty Years’ War wheel lock to the Luger and the latest Ruger, Pistols & Revolvers offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Illustrated with more than 250 artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

Author : National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Revolvers
ISBN : IND:30000066875455

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NIJ standard for 38/357 caliber revolvers, NIJ standard-0109.00 by National Institute of Justice (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Rick Sapp
Publisher : TAJ Books International
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781844063963

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Revolvers by Rick Sapp Pdf

Why shoot a revolver when a modern semi-automatic carries more rounds, reloads faster, is flatter and slimmer, and is no more costly? Revolvers are no-problem guns. Because it has a relatively straightforward design, a revolver is very reliable. A semiautomatic is sensitive to cartridges, and stories about jammed actions because of insufficiently powerful rounds are numerous. Revolvers do not jam. If a revolver misfires or a case is underpowered, the shooter simply pulls the trigger again. The complexity of a semi-autoÍs mechanics compared to a revolver gives the revolver an edge in durability. A revolver can take a great deal of punishment and still shoot a tight group. The final point in favor of revolvers is their ability to accept powerful loads. No semiautos can withstand the power of loads such as .454 Casull or .475 Linebaugh. In short, revolvers still rock!

Author : Julian S. Hatcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781632201492

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Textbook of Pistols and Revolvers by Julian S. Hatcher Pdf

Originally published in 1935, Textbook of Pistols and Revolvers is a treatise on handguns of the early twentieth century. Written by Major Julian S. Hatcher, an expert on the subject of firearms of all sorts, readers will gain invaluable insight into everything to do with handheld firearms of the 1930s. In his introduction, Hatcher emphasizes that he has made an earnest effort to make this book accessible for both novices and experts. Novices who know nothing whatsoever about firearms and their use can easily learn from this book, while experts will find a technical reference book where “the results of many experiments with pistols and revolvers and their ammunition are tabulated in convenient form.” Covering such subjects as the different methods of shooting and using hand firearms; their mechanism, care and repair; their interior and exterior ballistics; the peculiar suitability of the different kinds for various purposes; the relative effectiveness or stopping power of the various calibers and types of gun and ammunition; and many more, this book is an immense store of knowledge on early handguns. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Robert Rodriguez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476813561

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Revolver by Robert Rodriguez Pdf

REVOLVER: HOW THE BEATLES REIMAGINED ROCK 'N' ROLL