Colt Forum Member Gun Library Suggestions

[guy sajer]

We all have gun books in our personal libraries . The topic of this thread is for the members to share their favorite book titles . The books can pertain to any brand firearm and related topics . Please feel free to list your favorites or "essentials" .



Thanks to forum member Gunsmoke for suggesting this thread .

[Old-Colts]

If you collect Colt 1st Generation Single Actions in general:

A Study of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver (Graham, Kopec, Moore)
Colt Single Action Army Revolver Study New Discoveries (Moore)
Colt Peacemaker Encyclopedia (Cochran)

If you collect Colt 1st Generation Single Actions in the 1873-1895 era:

The Official Record of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver 1873-1895 (Don & Carol Wilkerson, Kathleen Hoyt)

If you collect Colt Cavalry & Artillery Model Single Actions:

Colt Cavalry & Artillery Revolvers (Kopec and Finn)

If you collect all models of Colts up to 1971:

The Book of Colt Firearms (Sutherland & Wilson)

If you collect Winchesters; primarily prewar lever actions:

The Winchester Book (Madis)

If you collect Winchester Model 1894/94’s – primarily Pre 64:

The Winchester Model 94 The First 100 Years (Renneberg)

If you collect Winchester Model 70 Rifles – primarily Pre 64:

The Rifleman’s Rifle (Rule)
The Model 70 Winchester 1937-1964 (Whitaker)

If you collect Winchester Shotguns; then depending on the model:

Winchester’s Finest The Model 21 (Schwing)
The Greatest Hammerless Repeating Shotgun Ever Built: The Model 12 – 1912-1964 (Riffle)
The Winchester Model 42 (Schwing)

If you collect Winchester .22 Caliber Rifles; then depending on the model:

Winchester .22 Caliber Single Shot Rifles (Houze)
Winchester Slide-Action Rifles Volume I: Model 1890 & Model 1906 (Schwing)
Winchester Slide-Action Rifles Volume II: Model 61 & Model 62 (Schwing)

If you collect Smith & Wesson revolvers:

Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson – Latest Edition (Supica & Nahas)

[Buckspen]

Some of my favorite gun books are:

Colt .45 Service Pistols - Charles Clawson
Colt .45 Government Models - Charles Clawson
Colt Super .38 The Production History -Doug Sheldon

The Colt Pocket Hammerless Automatic Pistols - John Brunner

Percussion Colt Revolvers - The Second Generation - Dennis Russell

The Colt Commemorative 1961-1986 - Chondry & Jones

Colt Memorabilia - John Ogle

Colt Scouts, Peacemakers and New Frontiers in .22 Caliber - Don Wilkerson

Post WWII Single Action Army Revolvers:
The Post-War Colt Single Action Army Revolver 1976-1986 - Don Wilkerson
The Colt Single Action Army Revolver 1955-1975 - Don Wilkerson

Browning .22 Caliber Rifles - Homer Tyler

Winchester Model 52 - Herbert Howe

FN Browning Pistols - Anthony Vanderlinden

- Buckspen

[haggis]

A few others...

Colt New Service Revolvers - Bob Murphy
Colt's New Service Revolver - Tim Mullin
A Study of Colt's New Army and Navy Pattern Double Action Revolvers 1889-1908 - Bob Best
U. S. Handguns of World War II, the Secondary Pistols and Revolvers - Charles Pate
Axis Pistols, Vol. I & II - Jan Still
The Hand Cannons of Imperial Japan - Harry Derby
System Mauser - John Breathed & Joseph Schroeder
Lugers at Random - Charles Kenyon
Smith and Wesson 1857-1945 - Robert Neal & Roy Jinks
America's Right Arm, The Smith and Wesson Military and Police Revolver - John Henwood
Mauser Bolt Rifles - Ludwig Olson
The British Service Lee - Ian Skinnerton
Pistol and Revolver Cartridges, Vol. I & II - Henry White & Burton Munhall
The P.38 Pistol, Vol. I, II, & III - Warren Buxton
Astra Automatic Pistols - Leonardo Antaris
Beretta Automatic Pistols - J. B. Wood
French Service Pistols 1858-2004 - Eugene Medlin & Jean Huon
Mannlicher Rifles and Pistols, Famous Sporting and Military Weapons - W. H. B. Smith & Von Kromar
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Handguns - A. B. Zhuk


Buck

[rhmc24]

I'm mostly into pre-1911 automatics - soooo --

Many gun books at gunebooks.com. A downloaded book costs about $7, a best-value, with many diagrams, photos, history etc. Titles for the 1900, 02 & 03s, 1911 & many other Colts. Many other gun books you can read it in your computer or print it for your library. A very different website.

Colt's .38 Automatic Pistols by Douglas G. Sheldon, offers a huge amount of info, photos, history, etc from the 1900 thru the 1903 Hammer.

The Colt Model 1905 Automatic Pistol by John Potocki

The Government Models by Goddard covers the 1900 thru the basic 1911. Heavy on detail and history with info, photos, history, etc. Pages of serial numbers of guns shipped to celebrities, dealers, etc with notations such as engr, pearl, etc.

[Hobie]

Just as I am doing with my guns, I'm trying to explain why the books I've accumulated are important to me. A work in progress!

[Colt75]

I want to put a plug in for the good old standard reference work Cartridges of the World (any edition). This is one useful reference work I keep pulling out at least once a week. Every gun library needs at least one copy.

[guy sajer]

2 of my first "gun books" as a young pre-teen were the Smith "Book of Pistols and Revolvers" & "The Book of Rifles" . I turned those pages many times over dreaming of guns I couldn't own .

[Recoil Rob]

Can I assume the The Book of Colt Firearms (Sutherland & Wilson) is out of print since the least expensive copy I can find of the 3rd edition is $140.00?

How good is the Blue Book Colt Pocket serial number reference?

[Oro]

By far the most valuable gun book I ever read was called

Shotgunning: The Art and the Science

http://www.amazon.com/Shotgunning-Ar.../dp/0832918407

It is both hilarious and fun to read, and has more gun wisdom in it than you can imagine. If you practice what he says, you will be very good with a shotgun almost immediately. Then you can apply what he says about instinctive shooting to handguns and see a dramatic improvement there, too. Ths\is book is WAY cheaper than night sights or laser grips, and just as effective.

The next thing is not widely available, but also worth reading. It is what Jack Weaver actually said about shooting, not just the shape of the stance as repeated superficially by instructors everywhere. He had some very insightful things to say about gripping, etc. that make a big difference and are almost always overlooked. Fortunately American Handgunner had an article on this a few years ago, and in it is a link to Weaver's son's website, which offers copies of his writing.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1

Happy shooting, folks.