What Books on your Shelf?

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What hunting,fishing, firearm related books do you have on your shelf or would you recommend as must haves?
 
Have both of Cody Lundin's books (the barefoot guy on Dual Survival)... about as far as I go as far as outdoors books and such.

I have around 500 novels that are assorted fantasy, science fiction, action, and mystery. :D
 
I have a copy of "MODERN GUNSMITHING" by Clyde Baker, which I refer to quite often.
The book is Dated "1933" but has the answers to many modern day questions on how to do things.

Good shooting

Lindy
 
NRA: Money, Firepower, and Fear by Josh Sugermann and Every Handgun is Aimed at You, also by Sugermann were pretty good. Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America by Tom Diaz was alright. Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy by Dennis Henigan wasn't all that good. Henigan of the Brady Campaign isn't nearly as good a writer as Sugermann of the VPC. (Sugermann also holds a FFL in the District of Columbia.)
 
Anything by Elmer Keith and Julian Hatcher, MG USA and a Lyman Reloading manual (even if you don't reload, it'll teach you an incredible amount about ammunition and shooting.)
 
My library ? O god, it has just about anything you can think of, within reason. I don`t have a first edition of the Gutenberg bible, LOL

I have what any other person would who has been married for almost 30 years & raised 5 kids.

I have everything from Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat to Hatcher`s Notebook, you know reloading manuals, Basic Gunsmithing, Woodworker`s Handbook, Encyclopedia`s, World Books, Dictionary`s, Books on Cars, Books on Guns, Books on Tractors, well you get the idea I have a pretty decent library, as everyone should have...........
 
A number of Gun Digest from the mid '70s to the early '80s, Military Small Arms of the 20th Century, R.L. Wilsons books The World of Beretta and Colt: An American Legend, Janes Guns, The Complete Encyclopedia of Pistol and Revolvers, Blue Book of Gun Values, Gun Digest Book of Guns and Prices, Elmer Keiths books Sixguns and Shotguns, The Rifle Book by Jack O'Connor, Hatchers Notebook by Julian Hatcher, Principles of Personal Defense by Jeff Cooper, Shotguns by Elmer Keith, and a lot more that I can't get to right now.

I remember someone once writing that every time you bought a new gun, you should buy a book. The book didn't have to be about the gun you were buying; just something firearms related to help expand your knowledge. Guess I have practiced that idea over the years.
 
I've got way too many to list, but here are some of my favorites:

A metric ton of Gun Digests -I love that I can buy these used for around $3-4 from abebooks.com. I especially enjoy the ones from the 70s and 80s.

Modern Technique of the Pistol by George Morrison - fantastic book on shooting technique, has a few chapters by Jeff Cooper.

The Man Eaters of Tsavo, by John Henry Patterson - if you enjoyed Ghost and the Darkness, you really need to read the first hand account. Patterson had balls of steel.
 
My bookshelf

My top two, that I've lent out time after time (mostly to women interested in taking responsibility for their own safety) are Massad Ayoob's In the Gravest Extreme and Paxton Quigley's Armed & Female. Ayoob's book is the bible for anyone contemplating arming him- or herself.

After that, one that I read again from time to time is Col. Cooper's To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth; I've given copies of it to friends and relatives, and believe it should be on everyone's bookshelf.

Currently the book on my nightstand is Facing Violence by Rory Miller, a book I ordered after seeing it recommended by Lee Lapin.

Just for the record, outside of topics of interest on this forum my favorite contemporary writers are Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Robbins.
 
What hunting,fishing, firearm related books do you have on your shelf or would you recommend as must haves?
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Oh, I have lots. Just off the top of my head; most of Capstick's "Death in the Tall Grass" series of books, Hunting books by H. Lea Lawrence, Gary Lewis, R. Ruark, Jack O'Connor, shooting books by W.E. Fairbairn, Elmer Keith, Mel Tappin, Jeff Cooper, Massad Ayoob. Pleanty of others I'm forgetting.
 
i do not really have a lot. mostly reloading manuals. most of the books i have read came from, and got returned to the local library, and the exchange privileges throughout this side of the state. of the few i do have, the ABC's of reloading, and Book of the Rifle by Jim Carmichel. i had borrowed that from the library, and was so impressed with it, i went and bought a copy. of course there is 3) 4 foot high piles of Outdoor Life, American Hunter, American Rifleman, and Field and Stream.
 
All the Gun Digests. All the Guns Illustrated until they stopped including articles. All the Handgun Digests. Several years of the NRA Classics library, so I have several shelves worth of leather bound old gun books in the public domain. Almost all of Cooper and most of Keith. A good selection of Finn Aagaard, whose books have since become collector's items. I'm still not selling them. Gunsmith Kinks, 1-4.
 
I've got shelves-full of gun related books. I hope y'all do as well! The one that amazes me the most, "Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting" by Col. Ed McGivern. I looked for years & finally found a copy. While I WILL let you READ it, I WILL NOT loan it out!
 
Fine Shotguns
Double Guns and Custom Gunsmithing-Steven Dodd Hughes
Fine Gunmaking: Double Shotguns-Steven Dodd Hughes
American and British 410 Shotguns
Dangerous Game Rifles-Terry Weiland
Spanish Best-Terry Weiland
The Tactical Shotgun-Gabriel Suarez
Game Gun-Richard Grozik
Gunsmithing-Jim Carmichael
Gunsmithing Smith and Wesson Revolvers- Patrick Sweeny
Jerry Kuhnhausen Shop Manuals-1911 Vol. 1 & 2, Ruger Double and Single action Revolvers, S&W revolvers, Colt revolvers, Mauser Rifles, 30 Cal Service Rifles, Remington Shotguns, and 30 Cal carbines...

and of course The Snubby Revolver by Ed Lovette

Thats most of them but there are a few more gunsmithing books in there too. Just moved so cannot reference them right now.
 
The Gun, by CJ Chivers about the life of the AK

Merchant of War about gun runners and Victor Bout

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian, and several of his other books

One Second After, by far my favorite, about the effects of an EMP in America
just a few of my recent books...
 
ABC's of Reloading.
Midway USA annual master catalog.
No telling how many reloading magz!!!

Those are the books. Now I have a bunch of gunsmithing videos on various firearms that I highly recommend to any shooter (whether they reload/handload or not)....

The Dove
 
My newest is a copy of Modern Shotguns and Loads, by Charles Askins.

copyright 1929 ;)

Inherited from my Grandfather's collection.
 
I have a fairly large general reference library on guns including a fair number of the Colt references, most of Wilson's books, all of the Gun Digests between 1950 and 1995, a fair assortment of Shooters Bibles, a number of rimfire references, most Colt catalogs after 1910, a mix of S&W and other manufacture catalogs... Hatcher, Keith... the list goes on...
 
Appreciate the suggestions fellas, I'll check some of them out.

I only wish there was a decent used bookstore within 100 miles that had a fair selection. Most of my stuff has come from ebay and prices tend to run high especially on the Keith and Skelton books.

I did manage to find an affordable clean copy of Keith's "Hell I was There" a while back, and hope to add more.
 
we have, literally, hundreds of books and a great many of them about hunting and the outdoors. Our most prized book is a first edition....The Wilderness Hunter....by Teddy Roosevelt. Lots of military books as well. Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read!
 
My favorite would have to be Boston's gun Bible. IMO it is about the best primer on firearms and gun culture.
 
Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark
The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark
No Second Place Winner by Bill Jordan
The Gun and Its Development by W W Greener
Shotguns and Shooting by Michael McIntosh
Trout by Ray Bergman
 
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