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07-02-2015, 09:39 AM
http://sportingclassicsdaily.com/issue/2015-1/article/townsend-whelen-renaissance-outdoorsman
A good start in the study of Townsend Whelen.
"His first book, Suggestions to Military Riflemen, was published in 1909. His other works were, in chronological order of first publication, The American Rifle (1918), Cartridges and Loads for American Rifles (1922), The Care and Cleaning of Modern Firearms (1922), Big Game Hunting (1923), Amateur Gunsmithing (1924), American Big Game Shooting (1925), Wilderness Hunting and Wildcraft (1927), Small Bore Rifle Handbook (1928), Telescopic Rifle Sights (1936), Remodeling Military Rifles (in collaboration with several others, 1940), The Hunting Rifle (1940), Tips to Shooters of Shotguns, Rifles and Pistols (1945), Small Arms Design and Ballistics (two volumes, 1945 and 1946), Hunting Big Game (a two-volume anthology compiled and edited by Whelen, 1946), The Ultimate in Rifle Precision (with others, 1949),Why Not Load Your Own! (1949), Fundamentals of Scope Sights (1952), and On Your Own in the Wilderness (with Bradford Angier, 1958). His unfinished biography, Mr. Rifleman (completed by Bradford Angier and members of Whelen’s family, 1965) and The Best of Colonel Townsend Whelen (1983), appeared posthumously."
A good start in the study of Townsend Whelen.
"His first book, Suggestions to Military Riflemen, was published in 1909. His other works were, in chronological order of first publication, The American Rifle (1918), Cartridges and Loads for American Rifles (1922), The Care and Cleaning of Modern Firearms (1922), Big Game Hunting (1923), Amateur Gunsmithing (1924), American Big Game Shooting (1925), Wilderness Hunting and Wildcraft (1927), Small Bore Rifle Handbook (1928), Telescopic Rifle Sights (1936), Remodeling Military Rifles (in collaboration with several others, 1940), The Hunting Rifle (1940), Tips to Shooters of Shotguns, Rifles and Pistols (1945), Small Arms Design and Ballistics (two volumes, 1945 and 1946), Hunting Big Game (a two-volume anthology compiled and edited by Whelen, 1946), The Ultimate in Rifle Precision (with others, 1949),Why Not Load Your Own! (1949), Fundamentals of Scope Sights (1952), and On Your Own in the Wilderness (with Bradford Angier, 1958). His unfinished biography, Mr. Rifleman (completed by Bradford Angier and members of Whelen’s family, 1965) and The Best of Colonel Townsend Whelen (1983), appeared posthumously."