Old shooting books

[villageidiot357]

I am re-reading Fast and Fancy and despite Ed McGivern's obnoxious writing I am enjoying the sections on fanning, slip guns, and other esoteric techniques that did not make it into the modern era.

What other older books would you recommend?

I have read Jack Conner's and Elmer Keith's books, but not much else. Hatcher? PO Ackley?

[S.A.]

Charles Allen “Skeeter” Skelton. I enjoyed reading his gun stories back in my teenage days.

[deadcoyote]

I have a 1951 encyclopedia of firearms I got for like 50 cents from an estate sale. It’s super interesting, I like how pragmatic it is compared to a lot of modern firearms knowledge.

[beerman]

If you reload, Ken Waters books are essential.

[eaglemike]

If you reload, Ken Waters books are essential.

Agree
Lots and lots of good testing.

[Jess B. Guy]

Charles Askins and Bill Jordan tell some good stories.

[elSquid]

Years of Gun Digest in digital form...

https://www.amazon.com/Digest-Book-Digital-Library-1944-2019/dp/1951115139/

Insane value for the money. Fun to browse through articles and catalogs ( and MSRP prices! ) from decades past.

-- Michael

[subscriber]

Hatcher's Notebook:

https://books.google.com/books?id=yESNUKSg5aMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://archive.org/details/Hatchers_Notebook/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater

[hambam105]

A Rifleman Went to War

Shots Fired in Action.

[Maltese Falcon]

Don’t read these if you have any quibbles with raw killing, this guy is a cut throat ***hole IMO.

That said it was a different time back then ….so okay., now I know.

EDIT: Your post got me to find them all !

Now they get their own shelf.

Oof! See next post
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[Maltese Falcon]

EDIT: Your post got me to find them all !

Now they get there own shelf.

Oof! See next post
.

[splithoof]

Anything by Col Jeff Cooper.
Jim Cirillo
Rex Applegate
Bill Jordan
Jim Wilson

All of the above have used firearms to actually fight with, up close and personal.
I’ll add some more later.