I have spent the last twenty years amassing a collection of Gun Digests, and currently have most of the books from the early 70's on. There are a few holes here and there, but that allows me to haunt used book stores and find a bargain now and then. I have a lot of other DBI books, with Dean Grennell as my favorite writer/handloader/experimenter/widget inventor. I doubt I'll ever have all of them, but a rainy day can be a wonderful time to haul one or two out and re-read all the articles, many by now-famous writers, or those long since gone. And then when I get maudlin, I look at the prices of the guns back then and bemoan the fact that I was too broke to buy more.
Anybody else collect GD's? Got any duplicates for sale?
BTW, does anybody else think that the Shooter's Bible is as worthless as I do? Dumb articles and a crappy catalog. My .02.
PJ

My big undertaking was to collect all of Jack O'Connor's books. This month I picked up the last one I needed. I now have the entire collection. Some were pretty pricey.

Bob257

PapaJohn
I have most of the Gun Digests. Great reading. Do not forget the Gun Digest Treasuries. thes have consolodated index's in the back seperated by author and subject. Very handy for finding things.

A good place to add to your collection is Powells.com

You will find that a number of the people you deal with are both shooters and hunters. not all of them though!

I am more in the direction of books than periodicals. I started my collection 1997 with German reloading books (this is where I'm from), added the major US reloading books, and extended to the milestones of shooting and reloading literature: Whelen, Sharpe, Mann, Naramore, Hatcher. Now my foremost interest is in ballistics literature where I still try to find Corner's Interior Ballistics and McCoy's Exterior Ballistcs - for a reasonable price.

I am, somehow, not interested in Conners and Keith - they are classics by no means, but, sorry to say that, I find it disgusting reading Keith shooting longrange at animals with his magnum sixguns :mad: .

http://store.nrahq.org/palladium/default.asp

This is a link to the NRA's Firearms Classic Library. They are repringting many of the old Samworth and some Stackpole books at reasonable prices.

If you are interested in ballisitcs hunt up Lloyd Brownells Firearms Pressure Factors from Wolfe Publishing.

The more you read Keith the more you will find the truth. He was not a handgun hunter, but an oppurtunist. By having a handgun with him while he worked he was able to take shots that he could not have otherwise. Keiths long range shooting was not based on hunting but on mastery of the hangun. Do not allow your opinion to be influenced by magazine articles written by others.

I am looking for the British Textbook of small Arms. not easy to find a reading copy at a resonable price...

"I am looking for the British Textbook of small Arms. not easy to find a reading copy at a resonable price..."

It's a great book !

If you find $40 not too much, visit www.abebooks.com - they should have more than one available, but watch out, some of them are facsimiles.

If you should not be successful, go to www.sfb.at .