The Gun Digest® Book of
FIREARMS ASSEMBLY/DISASSEMBLY
Part IV: Centerfire Rifles 2nd Edition
J.B. Wood
© 2003
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Acknowledgments
My thanks to these people, who helped to make this book possible:
John S. Yarger, John A. Yarger, James W. Yarger, and Larry McClarney of Lock & Load Gun Shop, Glenn Lancaster, Al Paulsen, Brian Paulsen, Maurice Paulsen, Dr. Kenneth M. Eblen, Paul Thompson of Browning, Dick Dietz of Remington, Harold A. Murtz, Daniel A. Murtz, Thomas G. Goss, Ray Diekmann, George P. Whittington, Carl Bonnell and Jesse Smith of Sportsman's Corner, George Klutey, James S. Priest III, Grover Toalson, W.H. Wood, Marvin Dill, Tony Babbs, A.D. Jenkins, Terry Spainhoward, Merv Chapman of Feather Industries, the family of the late Klee Raleigh, Bob Grueskin of Springfield Armory, Inc., Eric Brooker, Wes Ugalde, Ron Trask, and Bob Gustafson of Thompson/Center Arms, Hunter Kirkland and George “Butch” Winter of Dixie Gun Works, Mike Miller of Calico, Inc., Chuck Karwan, Tony Aeschliman of Marlin, Patrick Squire, Fred W. Dewar, Danny Stone of SOG International, Dave Shellenberg, Syl Wiley and Margaret Sheldon of Sturm, Ruger & Co., Laura Burgess of SIGArms, Dennis Reese of Springfield, Inc., Frank Harris of Auto-Ordnance, Chick Evans, and Charles Brown of Hi-Point Firearms.
Contents
Austrian Mannlicher Model 1895
Feather AT-9 Carbine
FN-FAL
FN-Model 1949 (ABL)
French MAS Model 1936
French MAS49-56
German G.43
Harrington & Richardson Ultra
Hi-Point Model 995
Italian Carcano Model 1891 Carbine
Japanese Arisaka Type 99
Krico Model 600/700
Mannlicher-Schoenauer Model 1961-MCA
Marlin Model 336
Marlin Model 9
Mauser Model 1898
Mossberg 479
Navy Arms 1873 Springfield
Remington Model 14A
Remington Model 8
Remington Model 600
Remington Model 700
Remington Model 742
Remington Model 788
Remington Rolling Block
Ruger 44 Carbine
Ruger Mini-14
Ruger No. 1
Ruger Model 77
Ruger Model 96-44
Ruger Model 99-44
Russian AK-47
Russian Mosin-Nagant Model 1891
Russian SKS (Simonov)
Sako Forester
Savage Model 99
Savage Model 110
Savage Model 340
SIGArms Model SHR970
Springfield M6 Scout
Swedish Mauser Model 1894
Swiss Schmidt-Rubin Model 1911
Thompson/Center TCR 87
Thompson Model 1927A1
Timber Wolf Carbine
U.S. Model 1894 Krag-Jorgensen