what are you favorite gun books

Rifles of Colonial America

Brownells master catalog.

Any of PH Capstick's books.

Funny, I can't think of any. And I'm a writer.

I'm currently working on a novel series in which the main character carries a Glock 20 10mm as his sidearm in his job as a US Forest Service LEO.

Sitting on my desk now are two firearms-based books. "Long Range Shooting" by Ryan Cleckner, and "Sixty Years of Hunting Memories" by Jack Skile. Up in my reloading room is a book on shooting blackpowder firearms and casing bullets by Mike Venturino, who I've met and talked with at various BPCR competitions. Can't recall the name of it, but I pored over it quite a bit when I first got into BPCR competition shooting. The author is a friend of my dad and a good guy, so I guess that is my favorite.

I suppose my all-time favorite book is "THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK"
.....after the Good Book....of course.

I had most of "Cooper on Handguns" memorized in the late 70's.

Also Guns & Ammo "Guns of the Gunfighters", and "No Second Place Winner" by Bill Jordan.

Every time a new issue of Guns & Ammo hit the stands I went straight to Elmer Keith's column. These days I haven't really read anything else from other writers outside excerpts posted in magazines or on the web.

Everything Skeeter Skelton wrote!

Just for pleasure, Collecting Antique Firearms by Dr. Martin Kelvin. I don’t actually collect antique firearms but that actually makes it more interesting. I don’t practice Kyudo either, but I have three books on that subject for much the same reason.

My favorite some what gun book is
"Shots at Whitetails"
By lawrence Kueller or something like that.
Available on Ebay sometimes.

Handloading for Handgunners by George Nonte
I don’t even remember where I got this book. I’ve had it for years. But it covers just about everything on the subject.

My favorite is kind of a "kook" book, Survival Guns by Mel Tappan. My first gun book. Now that I'm older, I take it with a grain of salt instead of treating it like the Bible.

I received it when I was about 15-16 and it warped me into the gun person I am today. I still partly lean along those lines with the seeds espoused in that book. I'm very happy the world he was preparing for never came to pass.

He mostly believed that a semi-auto handgun if it wasn't 45ACP, it was crap (reliable hollow-points were still in their infancy) and rifles defensive or working start with "3" except for varmint rifles. He liked 44 magnums, 22's and 12 gauges, too.

His ideas were sound if SHTF/survivalism were ever needed, IMO. Highly unlikely to ever be needed but a interesting thought exercise.

Some of my firearm purchases are still influenced by that book a bit.

My library reflects a lifetime of over a half century of collecting good books. With very few exceptions, I have every book mentioned thus far and, of course, many more. Nothing wrong with the internet and I've learned lots from it but I would argue it's no substitute for reading a good book on a wintry evening in front of a fireplace ablaze, with a splash of good bourbon close at hand and a hunting dog curled at your feet.

Anything by Skeeter Skelton, Jeff Cooper or Finn Aagaard.

I'm a librarian.
I have literally hundreds of gun books, including most of those mentioned above.

One piece of fiction that I enjoy re-reading online is H. Beam Piper's Murder in the Gun Room, primarily for the shockingly low prices quoted for the firearms back in the late 1940s.

(BTW, you can read this story by clicking the above link, thanks to Project Gutenburg.)

robbt said:

howdy , always interested in new reading material what are you favorite gun books ???




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Peter Capstick "Death in the Silent Places"

Nation of Cowards; Jeff Snyder, Accurate Press. Essays on the Ethics of Gun Control. Very thoughtful, good reference for those times when you simply must have a conversation with an anti-gunner.

Shotguns and Shooting; Michael McIntosh, Countrysport Press. If you don’t presently own a double, you will after reading this.

The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle; Ned H. Roberts (think .257 Roberts), Stackpole Books. If you presently don’t own a muzzle-loader, you will after reading this.

The Cowboy Year; Ethan Bryan, Electio Publishing. If you are not presently interested in cowboy action competition, you might be after reading this, a memoir of the 2014 competition season when my son, a former non-shooter, learned the game and shot with me. No surprise, it’s my favorite.

I've read and enjoyed most of the books mentioned. Here are some that haven't:

With Winning In Mind, by Lanny Bassham. Mental discipline...from an Olympic champion.

Competitive Shooting, by A. A. Yuryev. This was the Soviet Olympic shooting manual, lots of information.

With Musket, Cannon, and Sword, and Bloody Crucible of Courage, by Brent Nosworthy. Probably the best works on Napoleonic and Civil War tactics out there.

Sixguns and Hell, I was there by Keith
The Schmeisser Myth by Martin Helebrant
Guns on the Early Frontiers by Carl Russel

Some of my personal favorites . . .







And, they are easy to make yourself. Just hit up the local used book store for a cheap book and get yourself some glue and an exacto-knife . . .

Yeah, I'm a librarian.
I've had several donated books come in that were cut like this.
One had a gun in it.
Sadly, it was a clapped out R/G.

here are a few books written by walter winans. you can download the one about automatic pistols. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls...ield2=author&anyall2=phrase&op2=AND&yop=after

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