(Part 2) Best collectible weapons books according to redditors
We found 238 Reddit comments discussing the best collectible weapons books. We ranked the 110 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
A good book, covering everything from cartridge choice, rifle setup,scope mechanics, math, high angle shooting, shooting over and under obstacles, long range subsonic shooting, precision reloading, math, understanding environmental conditions and how to adjust for then, ballistic truing
3rd edition is out, and is $30
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Precision-Rifle-Complete/dp/1732193010/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=Anthony+Cirincione+II&qid=1562787328&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr1
There was a ghetto rebellion. The Nazi Scum had to bring in heavy weapons to put them down.
Gerard Metral talks about it in his book forward. It bothered him that all the Jews had was some rifles and pistols with no SMGs. He thought that the added automatic weapons would have given them a chance. Later, having learned their lesson Jews in early israel manufactured Sten guns and 9mm ammunition in the basement of a Kibutz hidden under a laundry. https://www.amazon.com/Do-yourself-Submachine-Gun-Lightweight/dp/B00FGVMQ0K
Have you read [Hatcher's Notebook](http://www.Hatcher.com/'s Notebook: A Standard Reference Book for Shooters, Gunsmiths, Ballisticians, Historians, Hunters, and Collectors https://www.amazon.com/dp/1614272832/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LrRPAbMD41YRX)? Gen. Hatcher worked in the Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army and discusses the issues with these receivers in his book. One big issue I see with trying to reheat treat these receivers is the action shattering when trying to remove the barrel. Which for some, may be too much risk for a irreplaceable piece of someone's collection.
Best guide I've seen anywhere. (Certainly not the only guide, just the best I've seen.). Plus it's cheap.
Regular Maintenance and Cleaning of the Makarov Pistol: Full teardown, cleaning, and reassembly with pictures (Firearm maintenance and cleaning manuals)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071FN929Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_KfF5AbGHTFYNN
As /u/Ermott stated, if you've got a few years of free time, there is no shortage at all of information to be found online.
If you specifically want a book for reference, here's the list. (I own and have read, and re-read every book here.)
Stock removal knife macking -
Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop, revised
How to Mack Knives, by Barney and Loveless
When you're ready to move up a few notches in complexity -
The Tactical Folding Knife, by Terzuola
If forging is more your thing -
The Complete Bladesmith, by Hrisoulas
An overview (and extremely interesting) look at how different modern mackers go about macking knives -
Blade's Guide to Macking Knives
And finally, the condensed Q&A for everything the aspiring knife macker could ever want to know -
The Wonder of Knife Macking, by Goddard
The second edition of this books has mixed reviews centering on poor editing, I've read and recommend the first edition, though slightly dated, for it's solid insight into so many areas of knife macking.
I hope this helps you, don't forget to come back and post photos of the knives you mack!
Hatcher's Notebook is fantastic.
Try Paulus Hector Mair?
http://www.amazon.com/Polearms-Of-Paulus-Hector-Mair/dp/1581606443
Sure, no problem. My stand has never really been camo, I think it's less important that the stand is camo as opposed to you. As long as the stand isn't blue or something it should be fine.
There's a great book that has a whole section on deer vision by Leonard Lee Rue, https://www.amazon.com/Whitetail-Savvy-Research-Observations-Americas-ebook/dp/B00E257XWC
He goes a lot into how their vision works. The short of it is that they can detect motion REALLY easily. This animal evolved to run from the slightest hint of danger.
You can't help but move when you go for a kill, but what you can do is at least make it look a little more natural, like a branch moving. But if you're moving AND you kind of look like a human, it's going to spook!
Polearms (techniques are much the same whether it's staff, spear, pollaxe etc). Mair also teaches scythe, sickle and a bit of everything.
http://www.amazon.com/Polearms-Of-Paulus-Hector-Mair/dp/1581606443
This page has many scans of originals for lots of different weapons:
http://www.hroarr.com/manuscripts_german.php
There are loads for rapier, single sword and sabre as they all continue much later. Check out r/wma if you're interested in checking out western martial arts, always lots of good stuff there.
Off the top of my head (might be missing a few things), you will need:
I'm probably missing one or two things. Similarly, you could also live without some of the stuff I mentioned, but you'll want most of that to do a decent job at it. You're looking at easily $500-$1000+ for the tools and jigs if you have to buy everything.
As for a guide, get this and this
Don't get into AK building because you want to do it on the cheap. Those days are gone. Get into AK building because you love AKs and want to build a lot of them.
I'd say it's doable, especially with the equipment you've listed.
Find a copy of this book if you can. Best resource out there for building folders.
Use a quality waterjet provider and you can jet out the knives with little cleanup. You'll still have to clean up holes though... ream the pivots, drill and tap the other holes, etc.
Most people assemble the whole knife and get the opening+lockup working properly before they heat treat and grind bevels. It requires a lot of fit-up, taking apart, etc to get everything working properly... you probably won't be able to make the blade then work on the frame while it's in HT.
Make a jig to grind bevels if you don't have experience free-handing. There are simple ones that work very well.
Read read read. There are lots of WIP threads on the forums that will help you. Knifedogs, BF Shop Talk, Britishblades, etc.
I am an English shotgun-aboo
I Started here
https://www.amazon.com/British-Sporting-Gun-Rifle-Perfection/dp/0811704424
Michael McIntosh “Best Gun’s” will be more of a generic overview of fancy Pants gunmaking and give good primers for different gunmakers and regions
It's a collection of anecdotes from an arms developer. More than anything it gives an overview as to the mentality and function of American arms development, acquisition, and industry during the cold war.
It's a fairly thin book and in some ways it feels both a bit too dry, and a bit to light on information.
The author is happy to throw a big list of numbers in your face, but at the same time he omits big chunks of the story most readers would likely find interesting.
I don't think it's a bad book, I enjoyed it. But you should know what kind of a book it is before you buy it. I get a feeling that a lot of buyers had an inaccurate understanding of what kind of a book they were purchasing and ended up disappointed.
Edit: One book I can however thoroughly recommend if you haven't read it is this. It's a great book full of knowledge that anyone interested in firearms (particularly military firearms) will find of great interest. I think the copyright on this book has long since expired so you can find free ebook versions of it online.
The first is mostly about European sword making methods. There's a brief introduction to metal technology at the start (iirc, this part is available on the google books preview). Williams broadly classifies steel-making technologies as (a) bloomery steel, (b) crucible steel, and (c) decarburisation of cast iron.
The 2nd book has a lot on the historical development of European metallurgy. If you're happy with the brief summary in Williams, you don't need this book. If you want more than Williams gives, then this book will be good.
Neither covers the Japanese sword. For that, you can try Kapp, The Craft of the Japanese Sword.
Once using bloomery steel as the material, the same methods were used over much of the world, over many, many centuries.
I found the book "Flintlocks: A Practical Guide to Their Use and Application" really one of the best resources for learning blackpowder (outside of a mentor).
I was going to add it to my wish list for when the new, reasonably priced version comes out.
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It's released and costs $30 bucks.
The book goes over all kinds of different rifling types, it was almost like every English gunmaker had their own. Rigby rifling was like Metford but with semi-round lands, Holland and Holland semi-smooth bore had a ton of very shallow round lands and Alexander Henry rifling was like polygonal with extra triangular lands in the corners of the hex. Pretty crazy stuff.
I imagine rifling a muzzleloading cannon would be a chore. Its not like you can push a broach through so it must have been done with a single point cutter.
Edit: Heres the book. It normally retails for $100 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811704424/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=
It also depends on what you expect the projectile to do. What is your intended target? Paper? Prairie dogs? Deer? Bear? Elephants? Each one has different requirements such as energy and velocity at the useful range desired. Flat shooter or heavy hitter? A classic reference and a good read is: Hatchers Notebook
I was recently given a copy of Ed McGivern's Fast and Fancy Revolver shooting ($2.51 kindle edition). It's a really good read but the tips on how to have your wife hold various targets so you can shoot it out of her hand is just awesome. Safety first! You wouldn't want to shoot your her fingers off when practicing your upside-down-two-revolver technique. In all seriousness he thoroughly documents a lot of his shooting of different guns and ammo and his trick shooting is unbelievable.
Watch Youtube videos, there are tons on the platform and your specific model. Hickok45 has lots of great 1911 videos. He's not very technical but if you're new to the platform you will learn some stuff. And there are lots of technical videos about everything involving 1911s.
This subs wiki is another great source for info. Read through different reviews and write-ups. This sub has plenty of people with TONS of rounds through various 1911s and lots of knowledge to go with it. Including series 80 guns.
Also I have this book and this book. Both have great info. Luckily the 1911 is about as popular as it gets in a handgun platform. So info is plentiful.
The gun digest annuals have articles , a pretty extensive pricing guide with some historic info on each firearm, all kinds of ballistics information and various gun info. I wouldn't say you need every year but having a new volume of it every 5 or so years can get you new info. Also the articles are well written. Lot's of other books by gun digest on their webstore as well.
If you want a more complete reference pick up a Standard Catalog. Bit more pricey but it's a giant book and maybe a bit more in line with what you are looking for.
After 2006. My third edition Supica and Nahas doesn't have that serial number prefix.
-edit Amazon Prime members can read the book for free.. I have the hardback, its a nice book.
-edit: Kindle edition is horrible formatting
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you are missing this: http://www.amazon.com/1911-The-First-100-Years/dp/1440211159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345834176&sr=8-1&keywords=100+years+1911
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Buy this.
2013 Standard Catalog of Firearms says:
Exc- $350
V.G.- $225
Good - $200
Fair - $150
Poor - $100
Edit: If you have the ventilated rib version, you add 10% to each value.
FIREARMS CURIOSA by Lewis Winant without the dusk jacket. (With the dusk jacket.) It looks like the copy numbers were put on by hand, so with 1000 of them, I'm guessing human error.
If you want to know more about gun slinging and revolver shooting, check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/McGiverns-Book-Fancy-Revolver-Shooting/dp/160239086X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483076483&sr=8-1&keywords=fast+and+fancy+revolver+shooting
It was written by one of the best revolver shooters of all time. He lived a little later than the "wild west" but not by much. The best revolver shooter of our time is Jerry Miculek, who currently holds several world records for speed and accuracy with a revolver, and he credits that book with getting him started down that path.
I triple concur. A friend of mine gifted me The Handloader's manual of cartridge conversions. Awesome book.
Not sure why the downvotes for some very valid information. Classes rank number 1. Youtube is an excellent resource as well. There are plenty of channels that eliminate the signal to noise ratio. Reading books has never done anything for me personally on firearm instructions. Nothing beats hands-on.
One quick search yielded this for informative books.
https://www.amazon.com/Gun-Digest-2017-Jerry-Lee/dp/1440246580