By WALTER WINANS
The Art of Revolver Shooting.
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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
THE AUTHOR
Photo by London Stereoscopic Co.
The Modern Pistol
And How to Shoot It
By
Walter Winans
Commander of the Royal Spanish Order of Isabel la Catolica; Commanderof the Royal Roumanian Order of the Crown; Officer of the RoyalRoumanian Order of the Star; Chevalier of the Russian Order of St.Stanislaus; The Royal Swedish Medal of the Olympic Games; World’sChampionship Gold Medallist, Olympic Games, London, 1908, for DoubleRifle Shooting; Vice-President of the National Rifle Association ofGreat Britain; Life Member, National Rifle Association of the UnitedStates of America; Life Member of the United States RevolverAssociation; Member of the Association of American InternationalRiflemen; Revolver Champion for five years of the National RifleAssociation of Great Britain; Ten years Revolver Champion of the NorthLondon Rifle Club; Seven years Revolver Champion of the South LondonRifle Club; Member of Le Pistolet Club, Paris, etc., etc.
With Forty-six Illustrations
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1919
Copyright, 1919
BY
WALTER WINANS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
PREFACE
My first book on pistol shooting (The Art of Revolver Shooting) waspublished in 1900. Up to that date there existed no book which containedinstruction on pistol shooting, though several books had appeareddescribing the different makes of pistols.
Since that date several books have appeared—some very good ones, byvarious revolver experts. Unfortunately (as always happens when somethingoriginal appears), others who were not revolver shots took to writingbooks on the same subject, largely made up of unacknowledged extracts frommy books. Not understanding their subject, they distorted my teaching, andso any one trying to learn pistol shooting from them gets hopelesslyconfused.
I therefore give this warning; do not follow the advice of any but anacknowledged expert in pistol shooting, as books by hack writers, made upof extracts from other writers, and illustrations from gunmakers’catalogues, are not to be taken seriously.
Moreover, the revolver is now obsolete, and there is no use learning toshoot it.
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