The Complete Book of Trick & Fancy Shooting

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The era of the great exhibition shooters, the era that made Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill household words, is past. Those spectacular demonstrations of fast and fancy shooting that duplicated, under controlled conditions, the feats of the lawmen, gunmen and market hunters whose lives depended on their gunning skill have now largely disappeared. But it was a fabulous era while it lasted, and the great showmen-shooters who dominated it developed a degree of gun-handling virtuosity the world will probably never witness again.
How did they do it? How do you put a bullet through the hole in a flying washer, "split" a bullet on a knife blade, or hit your own ejected shotgun hulls before they hit the ground? Such stunts, which mystify the average shooter, are simply stock in trade for the pro. Yet the average competent shooter could learn how to do them himself if he knew how to go about it, and his regular shooting would benefit in the process.
This unique book gives step-by-step... Tovább

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The era of the great exhibition shooters, the era that made Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill household words, is past. Those spectacular demonstrations of fast and fancy shooting that duplicated, under controlled conditions, the feats of the lawmen, gunmen and market hunters whose lives depended on their gunning skill have now largely disappeared. But it was a fabulous era while it lasted, and the great showmen-shooters who dominated it developed a degree of gun-handling virtuosity the world will probably never witness again.
How did they do it? How do you put a bullet through the hole in a flying washer, "split" a bullet on a knife blade, or hit your own ejected shotgun hulls before they hit the ground? Such stunts, which mystify the average shooter, are simply stock in trade for the pro. Yet the average competent shooter could learn how to do them himself if he knew how to go about it, and his regular shooting would benefit in the process.
This unique book gives step-by-step instructions for acquiring the whole range of shooting skills with rifle, pistol and shotgun, along with practical hints on developing your own shooting act. Ernie Lind also tells the whole inside story of this fascinating form of shooting and its stars, from legendary old-timers like Ad and Plinky Topperwein to more recent contemporaries like Herb Parsons.
The Complete Book of Trick & Fancy Shooting brings a legendary era and an almost-forgotten skill within the reach of the today's shooter.
It all began when, as a boy, Lind saw Billy Hill perform at a local gun club, and resolved to develop the same kind of firearms mastery. While still in his teens, working as a shooting instructor at summer camps, he began giving informal exhibitions, and in 1938 he booked the first of his hundreds of professional engagements.
It was as a demonstrator of military weaponry that Lind joined Winchester-Western's research department in 1944. However, when Winchester's legendary Ad Topperwein retired the following year, he picked Ernie and his wife—"The Shooting Linds"—to succeed the husband-and-wife act he and "Plinky" had made famous. Following a post-graduate course in the Topperwein technique from the old master himself, Ernie and Dot went on the road for Winchester and rapidly established themselves as the No. 1 shooting act in the country. Before Dot's untimely death. The Shooting Linds appeared in every state in the union as well as Canada and Mexico, and Ernie estimates that he shot up more than ten million rounds of ammunition in the process.
With industry-sponsored tours now a thing of the past, Lind hits the exhibition trail more rarely, and has the time to enjoy the 200-year-old New Hampshire home he shares with Junice, his second wife. He divides his time among hunting, raising and training bird dogs, writing regular newspaper and magazine articles and restocking his own guns and, of course, trick and fancy shooting.
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