Identifier: americansmallarm00farrrich Title: American small arms; a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge for sportsmen and military men Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Farrow, Edward S. (Edward Samuel), b. 1855 Subjects: Firearms Publisher: New York, The Bradford Company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: ght and a rear peep. The weight is 3^4pounds, and the arm bids fair to becoming very popular. The well-known Ideal range rifle is made for .22 short, .22 long rifle. .2$Stevens and .^2 long rim fire cartridges; .25-20 Stevens, .25-21, .32-40 and .38-55center fire cartridges. Standard length of barrel for rim fire cartridges, 26inches; for center fire, 28 inches. Weight (with the standard No. 2 barrel), 26inches, is 7f pounds. With the No. 3 barrel, i to i^ pounds heavier; with theNo. I barrel, i pound lighter. The Ideal Schuetzen special rifle, shown in Figure 3, is designed to meet allthe requirements of riflemen who want the best. No expense has been spared AMERICAN SMALL ARMS 301 to attain this end. The best points of the most approved models have beenadopted, making this the most complete rifle ever made for the style of shootingin vogue among German riflemen. Every rifle is carefully tested from a machinerest, and a 3f-inch group of lo shots made at 200 yards, using the .32-40 or

Text Appearing After Image: FIGURE 3. •38-55 cartridges. The barrel is half-octagon; double set triggers, lever of specialdesign. The muzzle sight is a hood attached to a fixed base, with interchangeablediscs. The wind^-gauge movement is secured on the Vernier by a sliding barwith screw attachment. Made for the .32-40 and .38-55 cartridges, with extrabarrels to order for the .25-20 and .25-21 center fire cartridges and the .22 short,.22 long rifle and .25 Stevens rim fire cartridges. The Vernier Hunters Pet rifle is shown in Figure 4. It has a half-octagonbarrel, Beach combination front sight, open rear sight and Vernier peep sight;detachable skeleton stock. With these sights we have a rifle which can bechanged instantly from a hunting to a target rifle, and vice versa. It is madein three calibers for the following cartridges: .22 long rifle rim fire, .25 rimfire and .32 long rim fire. With an 18-inch barrel, the weight is 5f pounds. *

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