looking for novels with lots of gun play.

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i just started reading novels. im reading "the first mountain man" and there is a whole bunch in this series. and i like it.

but i also would like something about a hunter getting lost and having to survive in the wild. or maybe something like a bush piolt crashing and using firearms to survive in alaska. even a post apocalyptic story but with lots of gun use, unlike "the road" with 2 rounds in a revolver. lol.

any kind of survival in the wilderness where firearms are the stars. i can do without politics.
 
Pretty much anything by Stephen Hunter. His novel Point of Impact was turned into the movie Shooter starring Mark Whalberg.
 
How bout

Monster hunters international

written by a fellow member, started as a thread on the old TFL

Most SciFi, and any Louis L'Amour (sp)
 
Steven Hunter's "Dirty White Boys" has the best and most realistic gunfight scene I know of. The shootout in the tattoo parlor is teriffic.

Hunter generally does very well with guns and gunfights. Sometimes he does stretch things quite a bit, but it's always fun to read.
 
Another vote for Monster Hunter International. Louis L'Amour is pretty good too. I liked Sahara by Clive Cussler, and some of his Oregon Files series have some good firepower.

Doesn't involve guns, but there are a lot of primitive weapons in Gary Paulson's "The Transal Saga."

Death Watch, by Robert White might interest you. Its more of a slingshot vs gun story, but still pretty good.
 
The Matt Helm series doesn't have a lot of gun stuff, but what there is, is better than most. No similarity between the books and the farce movie.
 
Al Voth - "B-Zone", "Manditory Reload"

Matthew Bracken - "Enemies Foreign and Domestic"
"Domestic Enemies"
"Foreign Enemies and Traitors"

Vin Suprynowicz - "The Black Arrow"

Boston T. Party - "Molon Labe"
 
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some of Victor Gischler's work, such as Gun Monkeys or Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse. Some good gunplay (shootout at the strip club in Gun Monkeys comes to mind) and some good laughs (Gischler's descriptions can be quite hilarious).
 
Hunter

Get the entire Stephen Hunter series. Even his older stuff is great. Occasionally he gets off track storyline wise but for gun stuff he's done lots of homework. Go to Amazon.com and don't be afraid of the used books but if the price is close I'll always go with new. If you can set them up to read in chronological order would be best as they are not written in chronological order.
THR's own Stephen Camp has one or two novels under his belt too. I have one but I think he was working on another as I read the first.
 
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Try "Lights Out." If you can't find any copies online, PM and I'll send you one. Also, "Deep Winter" is good. Political though.

Also, "A Hymn Before Battle" and the sequel "Gust Front" by John Ringo are pretty neat. They're available on the Baen Free Library at www.baen.com

The "March To The Sea" series is excellent too. The first two are on Baen, but "March to the Stars" and "We Few" you'll have to buy. Great series though.

There's a lot of good stuff out there.
 
John Sandford's detective/thriller novels.

A favorite of mine is "Dead Watch", in which the protagonist's abilities as a hunter (both bow and firearm) become pivotal in his work as a political "fixer".
 
patroits a novel of survival in the coming collapse by james rawles i relly enjoyed it. also one second after by william forstchen. another good one is lucifer's hammer (its about a comet that hits earth & the aftermath on society after the breakdown of government) by larry niven & jerry pournelle.
 
"S. M. Stirling has written the wonderful "Island in the Sea of Time" trilogy, where the island of Nantucket and the U.S. Coast Guard training ship "Eagle" are thrown back in time to 1250 BC."

The Nantucketeers have a library, personal knowhow, and examples of firearms and other Century XX technology... but not the industrial base to maintain it. There is a lot of recapitulation of development in the stories. Things like the Westley Richards Monkeytail carbine; and ROATS.

If you want gunplay, don't read his Dies The Fire series. The world Nantucket left behind has no functional technology like gunpowder or electricity. No explanation, it just doesn't work. But if you like constant conflict with a return to an earlier day of muscle powered weapons and tools, it is great adventure.
 
If you can find Lights Out - it was an Internet Novel, taken off the site so as to support a book or even movie deal - it is a more "gunny" version of an EMP attack comparable to One Second After.
 
Like others have said, anything by Matt Bracken or Stephen Hunter would probably interest you. If you do read Hunter's stuff, read them in order, most of the recent stuff builds on previous books.
 
Fiction:

Unintended Consequences by John Ross (must read)

Day By Day Armageddon by JL Bourne (shoots with a group I go to the range with; explicitly includes gun stuff in both books)

Day By Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile by JL Bourne

A Well Regulated Militia by John Carpenter

Enemies, Foreign and Domestic by Matt Bracken (works hard at accurate technical details)
(two sequels)

Neither Predator Nor Prey by Mark Spungin

I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter (He is a shooter...Interviewed on guntalk 7/11/2010)

Kill Zone by Jack Coughlin

Dead Zone by Jack Coughlin



Nonfiction:

Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights by Jim Cirillo

House to House by David Bellavia

Long Rifle by Joe LeBleu

Trigger Men by Hans Halberstadt

Sniper: A History of the US Marksman by Martin Pegler

No Second Place Winner by Bill Jordan

Boston's Gun Bible by Boston T. Party
 
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When I was a kid, I loved reading Mack Bolan and the A team books by Don Pendleton, as well as the executioner series. They were fun books about a mercenary who was always sneaking into places, well armed, blowing stuff up and rescuing the good guys or killing the bad guys. LOT of gun info in those books. Kinda made me a gun nut :)
 
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