Book: .577 Snider-Enfield Rifles & Carbines (Hardcover) Spanish Artillery When the British XXX Corps

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Book: .577 Snider-Enfield Rifles & Carbines (Hardcover) Spanish Artillery When the British XXX CorpsBy Ian Skennerton. British Service Longarms, 1866 c. 1880. Hard cover, 9_ x 6 in., 240 pp plus 8 color plates, 100 illust., dust jacket, 2003. ISBN 0 949749 47 8. The definitive study of Britain's first breech loading rifle, at first converted from Enfield muskets, then newly made with Mk III breech. The trials, development, rifle and carbine models are detailed; new information along with descriptions of the cartridges. Simply a must have book for