Automatic Pistol Shooting / Together with Information on Handling the Duelling Pistol and Revolver

AUTOMATIC PISTOLS
AUTOMATIC PISTOL SHOOTING
TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION ON HANDLING THE DUELLING PISTOL AND REVOLVER
BY WALTER WINANS CHEVALIER OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ORDER OF ST. STANISLAUS COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ORDER OF ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL ORDER OF THE CROWN OF RUMANIA OFFICER OF THE STAR OF RUMANIA OLYMPIC CHAMPION FOR DOUBLE-RIFLE SHOOTING IN 1908 GOLD MEDALLIST FIFTH OLYMPIAD, STOCKHOLM, 1912 REVOLVER CHAMPION, FIVE YEARS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN SEVEN YEARS OF THE SOUTH LONDON RIFLE CLUB AND TEN YEARS OF THE NORTH LONDON RIFLE CLUB ONE YEAR DUELLING PISTOL CHAMPION AT GASTINNE-RENETTE’S, PARIS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RIFLEMEN, LIFE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, LIFE MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES REVOLVER ASSOCIATION AND OF LE PISTOLET CLUB OF PARIS PRESIDENT OF ASHFORD RIFLE CLUB, ASHFORD MINIATURE RIFLE CLUB AND THE SURRENDEN MINIATURE RIFLE CLUB
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1915
Copyright, 1915 BY WALTER WINANS The Knickerbocker Press, New York

Though my last edition of Hints on Revolver Shooting was published only four years ago, I find it now necessary, owing to the advance of the automatic pistol, to revise it thoroughly and to add new chapters.
Till quite recently, the automatic pistol had many defects, both as to balance and as to safety, chiefly in the latter respect, so that only a very careful expert could handle one without danger to the public and to himself.
This has now been altered, and with safety bolts and external hammers several automatic pistols are quite safe for the use of experts.
They are still very dangerous in the hands of ignorant persons; a revolver is dangerous enough in such cases but the automatic is much more so.
I shall try to explain how any one possessing mechanical knowledge can, by observing certain precautions, safely carry and shoot an automatic pistol. Of course, some men who, for years, have shot small game, and who are good shots, are still very careless in handling a gun. Such men should never touch an automatic pistol.