Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 30 November 2009
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Owen Gun Project, Did it Sink with the Centaur? Part 6
Will we ever know if the Owen Gun Project sank with the Centaur?
In 1943 the oceans and seas off Australia were a war zone the Battle for Australia and the South Pacific was in full fight. As the Centaur sailed up the coast of New South Wales towards Queensland the Centaur passed close to the [...]
Range Officer’s Handbook, Book Review by Arms & Militaria Collector Magazine
Book Review by Arms & Militaria Collector Magazine of the ‘Range Officer’s Handbook.’
BOOKSHELF with Syd Wigzell in the Arms & Militaria Collector No. 27
The Range Officers Handbook
This book is outside our usual domain for reviews in the ‘Collector’, however Ron Owen is a well-known firearms identity in Australia and with so many more enthusiasts shooting [...]
Range Officer’s Handbook Review in Guns Australia
Range Officer’s Handbook Review in Guns Australia by Nick Harvey
Book Review – Guns Australia October/December 2009
Hard-bound 200×303mm, 523 pages, well illustrated with line drawings and photographs, index, glossary and list of contents.
The name Ron Owen is well known to the majority of Aussie shooters as an indefatigable fighter for shooter’s rights and as a firearms [...]
An Armourer’s Perspective .303 No 4 (T) Sniper Rifle and the Holland and Holland Connection.
An Armourer’s Perspective .303 No 4 (T) Sniper Rifle and the Holland and Holland Connection.
An Armourer’s Perspective .303 No 4 (T) Sniper Rifle and the Holland and Holland Connection. by Peter Laidler with Ian Skennerton.
FOREWORD from
Major (Retd) Dougie T MABER, MBE Small Arms School Corps
This is an excellent, well-researched and accurate account of the [...]
Australian Antique Arms & History
Australian Antique Arms & History
Australian Antique Arms & History by John W. Swinfield FAIHA, edited by Ian Skennerton.
This compilation of forty-three years of John’s columns and articles in shooting and collecting magazines and periodicals, is so much more than just a useful reference and many hours of entertaining reading.
The growth of collector fraternities in the [...]
Modern Reloading by R Lee
Modern Reloading By Richard Lee
From the man who brought us the Lee Reloading Equipment that nearly every Australian shooter has used some of, at some time either before now, or sometime in the future.
MODERN RELOADING
Second Edition
by: Richard Lee 720 very comprehensive pages.
Ammunition reloading for the shooter, hunter and professional reloader, with detailed loading techniques for [...]
Treatise On Amunition
Treatise On Ammunition, The War Office
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
The general advance in the science of gunnery, which has proceeded with such rapid strides in the last few years, has caused the introduction of a quantity of Artillery materiel which renders a new edition of this ” Treatise” necessary.
In preparing it some slight modifications have [...]
Saddle Up
‘Saddle Up’ by Rick Landers
A Book For Military Collectors, Antique Gun Collectors or for Firearm Collectors.
Australian Load Carrying Equipment of British, American & Local Origin.
This reference by Rick Landers explores the full period of Australian issue, from the First Fleet in 1788 through the various colonial governments and the Commonwealth, through two world wars and Vietnam to [...]
Accurizing & Shooting Lee Enfield Rifles
Accurizing & Shooting Lee Enfields
By Brian Labadda & Ian Skennerton
How to get the best out of the Lee Enfield rifles covers from the Magazine Lee-Metford, The Short Magazine Lee Enfield, The No 1 Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle, The No1 Mark III (*)Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rife, The No 4 Lee-Enfield Rifle and The No 5 Jungle [...]