This is a superb book for anyone who appreciates guns, history, and the engineering that goes into making them. If your a lover of finer things in life, this book is for you. You say it's not about airguns? No book to this date on airguns even captures ten percent of what this book offers. Put it by your sofa in your TV. room and read it a bit everyday. It's that good! No it's better than that......... JM!
Publisher Description: Parker Guns: Shooting Flying and the American Experience is Ed Muderlak's second book devoted to the Parker gun and fourth book on old-time shotgun related subjects. This book explains the evolution of sport hunting with a shotgun and how Parker guns fit into the picture. Readers will learn the history of the breech-loading shotgun, the development of the shotgun cartridge, the details of Parker's competitors, the history of live pigeon and trap shooting, and a survey of early shooting literature. Muderlak compares and contrasts the 'Old Reliable' Parker gun with the guns of Ethan Allen, Sylvester Roper, Dan Wesson, Whitney Arms, N. R. Davis, Boyd & Tyler, Dr. Maynard, E. Remington-Whitmore, William Baker, George H. Fox, Ansley H. Fox, Colt, and Winchester. The book is richly illustrated with 500 photographs, 300 of them being color, plus a fine selection of historic black and white photos and a wealth of nineteenth century prints and advertisements. One appendix even has a price inflation calculator (1810-2006) and dated serial numbers. It's a must-have for any American shotgun enthusiast.
