Historical Shooting with the Springfield Trapdoor Rifle

I am excited to announce that I have just published the next book in my Historical Shooting series, entitled Historical Shooting with the Springfield Trapdoor Rifle.  As with the other books in the series, this is not about the history of the Trapdoor (although I do cover the subject at a high level for context) nor a military history of the period, but is, rather, a book about shooting these rifles as historically as possible.

The hobby of historical shooting helps us learn about the past in a different way, by collecting and shooting antique or re-production firearms in a manner as close as possible to the way they were used in their days of glory. The book starts with a brief history of the rifle and its ammunition and an overview of some of the uniforms and equipment associated with it, then dives deep into making historically correct ammunition and the packaging for it, the musketry theory of the period, ballistics, training, the use of the sights, and gives a detailed explanation of how to shoot the rifle the way it was used in period.

The book is perfect-bound soft cover in an 8.5x11 inch format.  It is 196 pages in length and has many full-color photographs along with dozens of charts and diagrams.  It has been published through Lulu.com, an on-demand publisher, but will shortly also be available from many online retailers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others after it has had time to work through their procurement process, but that will be several weeks after the date of this announcement.

The book can be purchased immediately from Lulu.com (my preferred vendor since I make a bit more from them) by clicking on the following link:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/hugh-knight/historical-shooting-with-the-springfield-trapdoor-rifle/paperback/product-e75nqpz.html?page=1&pageSize=4

As an independent author not affiliated with any of the major publishing houses, I would really appreciate it if anyone who reads and finds value in this book would please leave a review about it, that really helps with books like this.

Here is a preview of some of the pages from the book to give a sense of what it’s like.