While its an inexpensive product, its hard to recommend this item or consider it a good buy. Despite the hype about the numbers, it covers exactly eight rifles: the Hotchkiss Rifle (used only by the US Navy during a brief period), the Jarmann, the Krag-Jorgensen,the Kropatschek (a Lebel upgrade, used in Portugal), the Lebel (a widely used rifle), the Lee-Metford (again, an important weapon it its day), the Remington-Keene, and the Vetterli.
To achive its claim of the number of rifles protrayed, the company listed every possible varient and test version of each rifle, includeing weapons which were not issued, issued in tiny numbers, or whose only difference was a minor change in sights.
It ignores the Mauser family completely, and the Mannlichers, while half the rifles covered were (while important developmentally) commercial failures and were very rare.
It is hard to imagine the campaign this volume could possibly support.
EDIT: The publisher's reply is, ironically, disproven by their own product, which openly admits that several of the described models were commercial failures, and notes several models which were never actually issued to the troops.
<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Production values were OK<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The description provided to potential buyers is inaccurate, to put it politely.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Poor<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Ripped Off<br><BR>[THIS REVIEW WAS EDITED]<BR>
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