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Re: The Gun and It's Development-W.W.Greener-Free Download

Post by hornet » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:38 am

what would you think of aprice of ww.greener because ihave my mouth watering on the two i have in sight not for sale but can exchange for mine walter locke with a premium along.
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Post by timmy » Thu Jun 23, 2011 11:07 am

Vikram, I don't know how I missed this one the first time around, but thanks, I've got this juicy nugget now!
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Post by pistolero » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:26 pm

Thanx!
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Post by Sakobav » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:12 am

thanks will read it
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Post by ckkalyan » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:18 am

Nice find Vikram - Thanks for sharing! :D
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Post by Grumpy » Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:23 pm

What does `Bump` mean in the circumstance in which you`ve here Vickers ?
Interesting book - a firearms classic .... and one that I`ve recommended myself a few times.
Greeners other books must also be in the public domain.
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Post by Vikram » Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:39 pm

Grumpy wrote:What does `Bump` mean in the circumstance in which you`ve here Vickers ?
Interesting book - a firearms classic .... and one that I`ve recommended myself a few times.
Greeners other books must also be in the public domain.

Just pushing it to the top ten posts so that more people get to see that the post exists and can benefit from reading it. I shall trawl for the other books by Greener and post them her should I find any.


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Post by Grumpy » Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:40 pm

Ah .... a VERY good idea.
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Post by TwoRivers » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:51 am

Vikram wrote:'The Gun and It's Development' by W.W.Greener is highly recommended to anyone interested in firearms.You can download it here in a PDF format.If you can't, let me know. I will try to upload it to a website where you can download it from.

http://ia600303.us.archive.org/13/items ... eerich.pdf

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Post by Grumpy » Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:15 am

LOL. True ...
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Post by TRX » Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:18 am

I found the PDF interesting, but I prefer paper when possible. It turned out that the book had been reprinted many times, then many more after it went out of copyright. I found a used reprint in good shape at a very low price, and I've read it cover to cover several times.

The copy I have is a reprint of the edition of 1907, which was an update to the original 1870? edition. The original book was written by one Geener, the updated edition was done by his son. Every now and then the text refers to "modern" and you're left to figure whether it meant 19th or 20th century "modern," but that's not really a problem.

Greener mentioned the prices of some of their rifles. I went to one of those "buying power across time" web sites, plugged in the numbers, and those nice old double rifles were relatively even more expensive then they they are today. I didn't realize that they had always been rich man's tools.
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Post by captrakshitsharma » Fri Jan 09, 2015 8:04 am

Cheers gents. Good finds..
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Re: The Gun and It's Development-W.W.Greener-Free Download

Post by captrakshitsharma » Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:08 pm

Very interesting stuff.. thanks for sharing such gems
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