New Newton Rifle Book  Now Available:
 

The Newton Rifle

Both editions of The History and Details of Newton High Power Rifles are sold out and there are no plans for reprinting. However, a new more-comprehensive book covering Charles Newton and his rifles is now available

The new book is a hardcover titled The Newton Rifle, containing 240 pages.  Charles Newton was an experimenter, inventor, superior ballistician, firearms designer and firearms manufacturer between 1905 and 1932.  The History and Details of Newton High Power Rifles has served as a catalyst to accumulate a large amount of new information about Newton and his rifles during this period. The Newton Rifle is a more complete and accurate volume covering Newton's numerous accomplishments. It contains most of the information from the first book. Changes have been made--ranging from words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs--and additional chapters have been added.

Information added includes reprinting of all of Newton's patents, pictures of the numerous production changes of the Model 1916, new chapters about owning or purchasing altered Newton rifles, wildcat cartridges derived from Newton designs, and new information on Newton ammunition with more pictures. The chapter on the Model 1914 has been almost completely rewritten because of the surfacing of new data and has pictures of at least one Model 1914 rifle. The section on Meeker rifles has been expanded, with original catalog scans and pictures of Meeker rifles. A 15-page color section of Newton rifles has been added.  Picture have been increased from 75 to 190, including 60 in color. The number of scans has increased from 90 to 118.

Still included are Newton�s innovative rifle and ammunition designs, including the Model 1914 rifle group, the First Model 1916, the Model 1922, the Second Model 1924 or Buffalo Newton rifle, and the LeverBolt rifle. The rifle information can also be used as a reference guide for standard and factory-optional features.

The mechanical workings of the major models are presented in detail, and information is given about rare and one-of-a-kind models. This new book also discusses several developments made by Newton that never came to be. Some of the information herein has never been presented by any other source.

The Newton Rifle contains the history of each Newton enterprise, along with a section on the many catalogs offered by Newton�s various companies. All calibers of Newton-developed ammunition and cartridge boxes are discussed and pictured. Many new pictures and scans have been added to more completely clarify details of the Newton rifle story.

Whether you are a Newton collector, a fan of bolt-action rifles (especially sporting models), or just want to know more about this interesting aspect of firearms history, you will enjoy and treasure this book.

I need your help!

I am very interested in finding information about the Model 1914 Newtons so I can try to documents which variations and calibers were produced. If you have one of these rifles or information on them, please contact me at 11175 MacArthur Road, Levering, MI, 49755, or 231-445-1022 or lswales@live.com.

To see pictures of the Model 1914, click here.