Ranked 2nd in category: Shotguns

Everything you wanted to know about fine double shotguns by the nation's foremost experts, starting with a section on locks & actions & moving down to such crucial minutiae as spring fabrication & selection. Extraordinary clarity & great detail. 100 B&W photos & illus.; 7x10 inches, 272 pgs.

All of us who like to examine, handle, and hunt with fine double shotguns like to think we know something about these objects of our admiration and desire. Yet reading even the first few chapters of Shotgun Technicana will open a world that most of us only suspected lay beheath the fine checkering or the multihued case-hardening.

Here, longtime friends and colleagues Michael McIntosh and David Trevallion, two of the nation's foremost experts on shotguns, have gathered, sorted, and refined 5 years of their acclaimed columns from Shooting Sportsman magazine. They have included additional photographs, some new text, and updated diagrams.

Starting with a section on locks and actions and moving down to such crucial minutiae as spring fabrication and selection, the authors explain with extraordinary clarity and in great detail just how a side-by-side works, how today's designs evolved, and how both modifications and repais should be handled.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Michael McIntosh has written or edited an impressive number of books on natural history, wildlife art, and firearms, including Best Guns, A.H. Fox, and The Gun Review Book. He is also shooting editor of Shooting Sportsman and has contributed to Sporting Classics, Gun Dog, Wildlife Art, & The Double Gun Journal Michael lives in Hill City, South Dakota.

David Trevallion emigrated to the United States, after working as a stockmaker at Purdey & Sons in London and being admitted to the Freedom of the Company of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers. He founded Trevallion Gunstocks, located in Cape Neddick, Maine.