If you really enjoy C&B these books are a must have!

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These two book's are a must have for anyone who wants to learn all they can about the history, styles, right loads to use, tuning tricks, do your own gun smithing and much more. It doesn't matter if your new to this hobby or if you are an old cowboy these book's will make you a professor of C&B Revolvers. No I'm not selling these book's I'm just stateing what I have found in these books. I have been at this for many years and learned more from reading these two books than I have over the past 45 years of working on and shooting these gun's.
Percussion Pistols and Revolvers and there History is one of the best writen books on the subject I have ever found.It also Happens to be co-authored by our own Mike ("MEC") Cumpston . Easy to read without all the boring junk we get today in so many articals and book's. Just facts, fun, pictures and enough info to make your head spin. Way to much for me to go into here.

The next book is called "Black Powder Hobby Gunsmithing" by Sam Fadala and Dale Story. This book will show you with big clear pictures just how to tune your C&b revolver, how to chamfer the nipples, the cylinder holes, how to smooth all the action parts , how to temper the hammer and so on. Very easy to follow with great tips and tricks on things like timing and so on. It also covers many other aspects of our sport and hobby.

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Funny you should mention it but in the march 2006 GUNS Magazine is an article by Sam Fadala on a pistol version of the .22 Chipmunk and one by me one the LePage Target Pistols.

This one will hit the stores toward the end of this month and is just now getting to subscribers.
 
Thanks Mike. I just ordered your book from Amazon UK - $17.85 delivered to my brother in law who we are going to see in March so I will get it then.

Cant afford the other yet!!
Duncan
 
I wonder if driving through the Chunnel is nervous making.
 
Channel Tunnel

No problem, we first used it when we lived in the UK, about a week after it opened. You don't drive through, you drive onto a train and travel in enclosed carriages, sitting in your car. Trip is 35 mins and we usually have a snack while we are travelling. Once out at the other end it's straight onto the motorway (freeway) and traffic jams in the UK but going the other way into France, you hit 80mph and very few problems.
When we go to England I will leave home at about 8am and its all motorway to Calais now, about 525 miles, about an 8 hour trip. I drive a Chrysler Voyager 2.5 turbo deisel which gives me about 35 mpg on a run and is very comfortable with plenty of room for taking wine for my friends and family!!

Cheers
Duncan
 
Also, get "Sixguns" by Elmer Keith. First published in 1955, this is a classic gun book. It also has a chapter on care and feeding of cap and ball sixguns.
Back when Keith wrote it, there were no reproductions. He was using the real revolvers. His advice to use a greased felt wad between the ball and powder is as valid today as it was then.
I believe "Sixguns" is still in print, in its upteenth incarnation.
To heck with the dry lubricant of commercial felt wads. You want something with moisture, to keep the fouling soft, not a dry lubricant.
 
Also, get "Sixguns" by Elmer Keith. First published in 1955, this is a classic gun book. It also has a chapter on care and feeding of cap and ball sixguns.
Back when Keith wrote it, there were no reproductions. He was using the real revolvers. His advice to use a greased felt wad between the ball and powder is as valid today as it was then.
I believe "Sixguns" is still in print, in its upteenth incarnation.
To heck with the dry lubricant of commercial felt wads. You want something with moisture, to keep the fouling soft, not a dry lubricant.
 
Keith is just about the only pipe-line to the practices of people who used these things when they were state of the art. He got the felt/grease loading method from talking to one or more of these "old timers."

Also look at the stickies at the top of this page and Read Gatofeo's "Proper Handling.." Post.
 
The lowest price I have found on "Sixguns" by Elmer Keith is $100.00 for a used one. Don't know what it would cost for one that's unused, if you could even find one:eek: Mike
 
A few years ago, somebody re-issued it in paperback. I thought it said "out of print" the last time I looked. Interesting chapter on managing percussion revolvers and some more on them in the history chapter. He recommended FFg (unless it was a misprint) for everything above .31 caliber, used old felt hats for the wads and reported that balls were more accurate and delivered more effective energy than the old bullets. Said that the .36 ball had more stopping power than would be expected from its ballistics but the bullets were considered better for shooting wild cattle due to penetration. He said you could keep one of them shooting accurately without excess fouling by blowing down the barrel either after every shot or every cylinder full - don't recall which.
 
Thanks guy's, everything I seen at amazon .com said out of print(I knew that) but then it showed some used ones for $100.00 and over.
 
The BP singleshot shooters have a device that is made from a spent shell that fits their chamber on the end of the shell is a platic tube, through which they blow after each shot. seems to control the fouling very well.
 
Dillon Precision used to sell Sixguns in The Blue Press. I don't see it listed in the current one but they may still have some copies.
The price was $29.95 in the January issue.
Order number is (800) 223-4570. Don't know if it would work from overseas.
 
Mike,

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=9W2n6JjCcV&isbn=1879356090&itm=1

Sorry about that, long url. Barnes and Noble, new paperback, 29.95 plus tax, free shipping.

I saw it at the store, just never bought it, did just a few minutes ago, before I posted this. Didn't want you to buy the last, and me be out in the cold.

One of the used hardcovers at Amazon's affiliates wants 315 bucks for a "pretty nice" copy.

Only real Kieth book I got is "Shotguns, by Kieth", nicely bound, built in ribbon bookmark.

Savvy old man, really into big slow bullets, and wasn't afraid to shoot 500 yards with pistol, and , dammit, hit what he was shooting at, though it might be an outhouse. One story was about shooting at a real outhouse at that range and thinking the bullet would just bounce off, was surprised to see that the bullet went through an inch or 2 of wood.

Now anybody knows that to hit at 500 yds ANY size target, takes some luck, but you gotta admit, it takes a hell of a lot of skill, too.

Cheers,

George
 
It say's none available at this time.... Can't afford $315.00 for that book. I'm sure one of the rich guy's on here like Mec will jump right on that:D
 
BT,

Sorry about that. After I bought mine I went back to the site to see if there were more, there were, so I posted the link.

Mebbe someone else here got what few were left.

If I find it in my local store, or somewhere, Ill pick one up, if you want it, I'll send it. No promise, but almost sure I've seen it at the local B&N, or Border's.

Cheers,

George

BTW, another good one is "Hell, I Was There", also by Kieth. Don't have that one, either, will look for it.
 
Thanks George, But I'm going to the mall in Charleston, WV this week end. They have several book stores including Barnes and Noble. If they don't have it in stock they should be able to order me one.
 
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