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Sep 19, 2019
Not a great, or even good book, only buy to round out your collection, not to learn anything.
1 of 1 found this helpful The author is a policeman and every item is "my department uses this product therefore it is the best product and nothing else is/can be/or will be considered!". He likes, but does not recommend, a nine pound rifle due to weight (M1 "Garand" Rifle, For all the reasons to not recommend the M1, that is probably the least of them. Undoubtedly the best rifle in WWII, but that was then and this is now. It's badly outdated 1940s technology now) but then recommends a nine pound handgun!
The photos are laughably bad and horribly posed, The "I am right, you are wrong" tone gets tiresome as well. It is not that the book is so terribly bad, compared to many other books on the subject, although it surely isn't very good, but it could have, and should have, been so much more. At one time GUN DIGEST BOOKS stood for the best gun books on the market, but the last dozen or so that I have bought has proven that to be another "that was then, this is now" moment too.
Buy the book only if you want to round out your "survival guns" library, but do not expect anything earth shaking, new, exciting or original. As a book reviewer, I have read every "survival/prepper/retreater/bug out gun" book out there and Mel Tappan's "Survival Guns", while 44 years old (1976) and badly dated, but is still the benchmark of "survival/prepper" gun books. This book is not a patch on Mel's book.
Oct 26, 2022
Not bad, just so many better books, little use to most American shooters
While I put that I do not recommend the book, it is OK, but for the Brit shooter, it would be compelling. For the American shooter, there are so many, better, American and British shooting books to learn from.
Like the great majority of "how to shoot a shotgun" books, this is another "British driven game book", more concerned with dressing the part of an English gentry, shooting driven game from a stand, and not embarrassing yourself in front of the peers. This is not to say that many American shotgun shooters would not benefit from learning manners, proper foot work, and the like, but that too little is of actual use for the average "rough shooting" American sportsman, and so many other, better, Brit shooting books cover the same subjects in a more interesting manner. Ken Davies knows his stuff, he just can't make it interesting, or of use, to American shooters.
May 27, 2022
338 Essential shooting skills you need, and nothing you don't
First off, any book, magazine, or whatever that claims to be "complete", "total", or whatever, isn't. However that doesn't mean that the writers of this fine tome didn't try! The book has "338 ESSENTIAL SHOOTING SKILLS" on the cover and it does. Obviously these are not in-depth long winded chapters, but short paragraphs of what you need boiled down to it's essence, everything you need, and nothing you don't.
Written by the two best and foremost writers still writing today, between the two of them, they know more about rifles, shooting, hunting and what, when, where and how than any other two gun writers alive and writing today. Fortunately they can also tell you what you need to know with out any mumbo-jumbo, extra material added as filler that so many feel they need to add, and are both writers are both educational and fun to read, which is rare enough anywhere.
It doesn't matter if you are a beginner, or a well seasoned shooter, you will enjoy reading this book, and if you aren't careful, you will learn something as well.