For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com In this classic piece of firearms literature originally published in 1936, the author covers the selection, use, and reloading of revolver cartridges. Some of today’s most popular revolver cartridges are covered in this book, as well as some cartridges which were popular several decades ago and have since fallen into obscurity. Elmer Keith uses his wealth of experience with the sixgun to analyze and recommend the correct cartridges for various situations. This is not only a manual covering the practical use of the sixgun, but is also a valuable reference for anyone interested in the history and development of the modern revolver and cartridge.

Sixgun Cartridges and Loads

Sports & Outdoors

Keith, Elmer

Hunting & Fishing

Sportsman's Vintage Press

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com Originally published in 1950 and revised in 1961. Elmer Keith is one of America’s foremost authorities on guns, shooting, and hunting and provides, in this book, detailed information covering shotgun actions. The double and repeating guns are described thoroughly along with stocking, sights, and sighting, patterns, loads, chokes, and many other details from the viewpoint of the hunters and trap and skeet shooters. Shotgun fans will appreciate the author’s down-to-earth advice on swing, lead, follow through, rib and stock pitch, wing shooting, snap shooting, deliberate work, and pass shooting. Stock dimensions come in for detailed study as well as the proper shot size for each bore and choke and size of bird hunted. Richly illustrated with examples of fine European, British and American guns, this book is considered by many to be the standard reference work on this subject.

Shotguns by Keith

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com Originally published in 1948, there is a very good reason why this book can be regarded as the bible of big game hunting for expert and novice alike. That reason is Elmer Keith, widely-known guide, hunter, marksman, ballistics expert and cartridge designer, writer and editor on big game subjects in the United States. Elmer Keith is no hunting season expert; he lived the year round in the wilds within hiking distance of the haunts of bear, elk, deer, goat and moose, and he lived in the wilds his entire life. He has hunted these and other American big game since he was a boy and his pack trips took him into the remotest sections of British Columbia, Alberta, Alaska and the Yukon. From his years of experience Elmer Keith has winnowed an enormous mass of knowledge about the animals themselves, a rich fund of exciting animal and hunting stories, and endless detailed knowledge about loads, rifles, hunting methods and techniques. His book is an encyclopedia of pertinent and authoritative information presented by a man who is above all a sharp observer. Chiefly, Elmer Keith’s Big Game Hunting is a book of facts. It also contains the flavor of the wilds and glimpses of the scenic grandeur of canyon and mountain, forest and plain. It is a book to be enjoyed by the man who must, temporarily at least, do his hunting vicariously through the experience of others, as well as a book for the active expert. In addition to the author’s original, first-hand, and factual approach to big game, hunters will appreciate the other material in this book. For the first time in a book on big game hunting they will find chapters on How to Look for Game, Judging Trophies before Shooting, Tracking and Managing Wounded Game. And these chapters, as all of the others, offer them the tested methods of a fellow hunter whose own trophies listed in The Record of North American Big Game include three heads of antelope, two for grizzly, one for cougar, and one for stone sheep.

Elmer Keith's Big Game Hunting

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com  In this first book of his, published in 1936, Keith takes on the big game cartridges one by one and describes just what they are capable of when put to the actual test of bringing down game.  Each cartridge is treated extensively; practical and comparative data being given with all of the various weights and types of hunting bullets suitable for use in it.  Here is real, first-hand, data on adaptability and killing effect, at all ranges and on all species of Western big game.  Its text is filled with hunting notes and observations of the most original and accurate nature.  Although originally published almost 80 years ago, this book still covers many of the hunting cartridges in use today.  Despite its age, this reference work will be a valuable addition to the library of the 21st century hunter.

Big Game Rifles and Cartridges

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com From the inside flap of the original 1950 edition of The Secrets of Double Action Shooting: No one ever suspected that anyone would ever write a pistol book like The Secrets of Double Action Shooting. Yet here it is, the first pistol book ever to tell the true story of the potential maximum deadliness of the revolver in combat and in sport. The author is the well-known Bob Nichols, for forty years a keen pistolman and the country's outstanding analyst and commentator on guns and shooting. Few have guessed up to this moment that the pistol has ever been this shooting authority's favorite firearm by a wide margin. The Secrets of Double Action Shooting is the pistol book of all modern pistol books. Those who have previewed the manuscript and are competent to judge say this may easily be the pistol book of the century. The double action revolver at its cunning best is actually deadlier, far deadlier, than the automatic, and in The Secrets of Double Action Shooting Bob Nichols has produced the facts which prove this to be true! As the author makes clear, The Secrets of Double Action Shooting is a book for men-folk, not for boys. The book is addressed primarily to law-enforcement officers and to the military, to the men who must carry the loaded pistol as everyday life insurance.

The Secrets of Double Action Shooting

Nichols, Bob

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com This is a facsimile of the 1927 book by Townsend Whelen, Wilderness Hunting and Wildcraft. This is a book which details the hunting of big game in North America, the woodcraft skills essential to success, and the habits and life histories of the big game animals which are of interest to big game hunters. This book comprises Col. Townsend Whelen’s experiences from a lifetime in the game fields, as well as a compilation from the writings of the most virile, observant, and successful hunters of the time. Col. Whelen devotes a chapter each to a number of North American big game animals where he includes the particulars of hunting each species. The book also includes valuable information on hunting methods, navigation, camping and camp gear, rifles, marksmanship, and even photography while in the field. This book is a valuable resource for the novice and experienced hunter alike, and can certainly be of use to anyone who takes pleasure in exploring the back country.

Wilderness Hunting and Wildcraft

Whelen, Townsend

Modern Shotguns and Loads

Askins, Charles

For more books like this, please visit www.SportsmansVintagePress.com This is a facsimile of the 1932 book by C. S. Landis, 22 Caliber Rifle Shooting. In this book, Landis sought to cover the most used firearm in America, the 22 caliber rifle. This is a treatise that explores the use of the American small bore rifle for shooting at both game and paper targets and is designed to be useful to the novice rifleman plinking in the woods, the accomplished small game hunter, or the expert rifleman at one of the national small bore competitions. The topics covered inside this book are extensive and include everything from shooting glasses and sights to practical advice for shooting at small game and match targets.

22 Caliber Rifle Shooting

C. S. Landis

The American Deer Hunter

Sell, Francis E.

Rifle-Craft

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