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I have a modest library...but there are some goodies in it. I especially cherish that book on Remington's in the first pic. I have met Roy Marcot when he visited the R.I.A. Museum a few years ago.
 

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Mine is difficult to photograph but if you include hunting I have a bit of everything from Ezekiel Baker to Steve Rinella.
I collect books almost like cool firearms.
I got my grubbies on a Phillip Sharpe in the 80’s and have been a reloader since.
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that publication. Is that the new Gordon Ramsey?
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In the late 70's with more counter culturalism protest and crud. Some dude wrote a book about all thing's Anarchist / terrorist / guerilla insurgency tactics. The book was banned from publication iirc shortly after. A guy used to be able to see them for sale at gun shows in the early 80's all the time.
 
PistoleroWadcutterGANG said:
In the late 70's with more counter culturalism protest and crud. Some dude wrote a book about all thing's Anarchist / terrorist / guerilla insurgency tactics. The book was banned from publication iirc shortly after. A guy used to be able to see them for sale at gun shows in the early 80's all the time.
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I was being sarcastic, lol. In my day, you had to mail order it out of the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. According to my friend who bought it, it came in a 3-ring binder printed on dot-matrix tractor paper..... according to my friend.
 
PistoleroWadcutterGANG said:
In the late 70's with more counter culturalism protest and crud. Some dude wrote a book about all thing's Anarchist / terrorist / guerilla insurgency tactics. The book was banned from publication iirc shortly after. A guy used to be able to see them for sale at gun shows in the early 80's all the time.
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Another popular one with that book at the time was “Hitman”. It was a complete “How To” book. It didn’t last long.
 
5 bucks to the first guy to post their Anarchist cookbook, LOL! :evil:
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In the late 70's with more counter culturalism protest and crud. Some dude wrote a book about all thing's Anarchist / terrorist / guerilla insurgency tactics. The book was banned from publication iirc shortly after. A guy used to be able to see them for sale at gun shows in the early 80's all the time.
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If you looked, at least for awhile, it was available as a pdf on the net. Try searching for the Paladin Press Archive. And that's as close as I'll go to claiming the $5....
 
Books about guns, or books that involve guns?

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Dang it, now I have to go photograph all the bookcases . . .
Which means I need to dust and clean them up . . .
Also, to get the pile of books by my computer chair moved back to where they belong . . .

I wans't gonna du nuttin this TG, and y'all are making me work :D
 
Too many to post pictures. (OK, I admit I do not know how to do that.) I have Gun Digest:1944 thru 2005. Larry Wilson Colt books, 2 books by Skeeter Skelton and a bunch of others. Been gathering since 1955. Disabled now and should get rid of them. Too hard to do.
 
IMG_2192.jpeg Just three books. I get most of my firearms knowledge from good sources on the Internet. Being an omnivorous reader, I strictly limit books in my possession to one large bookcase or things would get out of hand quickly. If I’m not going to read it right away, or I want to keep it, one in, one out, is the rule.

Love the Kelvin book. It’s not loaded with information, but it has a personal, idiosyncratic, style and it’s loaded with great photos.
The NRA book is not terribly helpful compared to a good YouTube video, but it’s a fun, somewhat outdated browse, and I enjoy going through it a few times a year.
Foxfire 5 has a book length section about modern (well, 1960’s-ish) American craftsmen making flintlock firearms. It’s not something I’ll ever do but it’s a fascinating charming read and I reread it every few years.
 
Funny about the AC. It wasn’t just a mail order press kind of thing. I remember standing in the aisle of a B. Dalton’s (or a Waldenbooks?) in the late ‘70’s/early ‘80’s reading most of a nicely done paperback copy. Frankly, if you were inclined to mayhem, it wouldn’t be a great help. Like trying to become a journeyman electrician from a Time/Life how-to book…

Edit: Thinking about it, it’s entirely possible that the edition I was reading had some of the problematic stuff edited out of it. I’ve never seen the original so I would’nt have had any way of knowing. OTOH, this was a time when head shops were a common mall fixture…
 
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Funny about the AC. It wasn’t just a mail order press kind of thing. I remember standing in the aisle of a B. Dalton’s (or a Waldenbooks?) in the late ‘70’s/early ‘80’s reading most of a nicely done paperback copy. Frankly, if you were inclined to mayhem, it wouldn’t be a great help. Like trying to become a journeyman electrician from a Time/Life how-to book…

Edit: Thinking about it, it’s entirely possible that the edition I was reading had some of the problematic stuff edited out of it. I’ve never seen the original so I would’nt have had any way of knowing. OTOH, this was a time when head shops were a common mall fixture…
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There was plenty of stuff that could get oneself or others hurt in the one my friend had..... according to my friend.
 
PistoleroWadcutterGANG said:
5 bucks to the first guy to post their Anarchist cookbook, LOL! :evil:
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About 7th grade, there was The Anarchists Cook Book, Special Forces manual, and The Poor Mans James Bond, all 4 volumes.

If I couldnt buy a gun, I could always buy a book.
I have 600+ books, with most all the 'Collectors grade' series and everything from Foxfire 5 on how to scratch build a gun to near everything in the last two centuries of gun and ammo development, back to a new picture book of presentation grade flintlock pistols that I recived recently.
My old book shelves boards have literally drooped from the weight and Im building new ones during the holidays.

I have 35 years worth of Gun Books collected.
 
Oh what an awesome thread. I wish I had my catalog of gun books and magazines, special issues, etc... I lost alot of good ones in the Windsor County flood this spring, they all got completely ruined and drenched in flood/waste water. Along with many thousands of dollars worth of guitars, amps, clothes, and thousands of rounds of STS and AA hulls, rifle + pistol cases, etc...

I'm in my new place starting over, but many of those gun digests and magazines are irreplaceable. One thing though, I was watching an episode of curb your enthusiasm and he had a 3" thick book called remington arms on Larry David's coffee table, I would love to know which book that is, I have looked for it online but to no avail........
 
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