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[Jeff62]

• Baker, Ezekiel (2010) [1804]. Twenty-three Years Practice and Observations with Rifle Guns. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-166-27060-5.

This is excellent old school reading.

 

[Mike OTDP]

I won't repeat any of the other excellent recommendations. But anything written by Walter Winans is worth reading. He's the only man to win Olympic Gold for art. And rifle shooting. The punch line being that he won the Art gold with a sculpture...Winans was primarily a pistol shooter and a painter with watercolors (he illustrated most of his books himself). Fantastically gifted writer, too.

Other books would include Ned Roberts' book on the muzzle-loading rifle, Geoffery Boothroyd's "The Handgun" (a little dated now, but very complete), "Small Arms of the World", and "The British Duelling Pistol". Tim Mullin wrote three books (now sadly out of print) reviewing military rifles, pistols, and full-auto weapons that are really outstanding.

 

[burrhead]

Here's a PDF of Sharpe's "Complete Guide to Handloading". 468 pages.

https://photos.imageevent.com/badge...lete_guide_to_handloading - sharpe - 1937.pdf

 

[welldoya]

I lusted after and finally acquired my Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbine in 6.5x54 from reading Macomber in Hemingway's Snows of Kilimanjaro short story collection.

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My wife later bought me a copy of Hemingway's Guns for Christmas. She was the best memsahib.

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I’m helping a widowed neighbor sell her husband’s guns and he had one of those. I gave up trying to sell it on local forums so put it on consignment with a local shop that has a nationwide presence.
As to the OP’s question, I always enjoyed reading Peter Capstick. “Death in the Long Grass” is one book that comes to mind.

 

[Armored farmer]

Amazon.com

My current favorite.
An epic journey through the decades of the heyday of safari in British East Africa.
Full of tales of the rich and famous on safari....in a day when the white hunters enjoyed the fame and status of NFL quarterbacks. Newspapers printed how many inches of Ivory were taken by whom.
Princesses rode their polo ponies up the elegant staircase of the Suffolk Hotel in Nairobi. Lions were shot by men in tuxes with borrowed rifles under the street lamps in Nairobi.

Mostly stories about the hunters themselves. Several of whom met their fate on safari.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

I’m helping a widowed neighbor sell her husband’s guns and he had one of those. I gave up trying to sell it on local forums so put it on consignment with a local shop that has a nationwide presence.

Did you already try putting a description in the THR Trading Post?

 

[welldoya]

Did you already try putting a description in the THR Trading Post?

No, mostly because I didn’t want to deal with an FFL and shipping. I had a lot of guns and rods & reels to get rid of and couldn’t spend that much time on one item.

 

[Old Dog]

My current favorite.

AF - had never seen this one, looks good, thanks!

One should also read Patterson's Man-Eaters of Tsavo to complement it. Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas were the leads in the movie depicting this story, Ghost in the Darkness.

My only African safari was a photo-safari in the Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. Spectacular. This thread has got me ordering more and more books...