Author : Nick Stroebel
Publisher : Krause Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780896896987
The firearms world is full of highly collectible items that share in the rich history that is part of the legends and culture of the world. Old Gunsights and Rifle Scopes is the only book that covers the areas of collectible gun sights and rifle scopes, a vital element of collecting ad the nostalgia that makes up this important field.
Author : Nick Stroebel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Firearms
ISBN : 9780873418300
The author of "Old Gunsights: A Collector's Guide" now takes aim at more than 120 scope makers and 60 mount makers. This definitive reference features photos and market values for 300 scopes and mounts.
Author : Nick Stroebel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Firearms
ISBN : 9780873415590
The definitive book on a unique subject of interest to nearly two million gun collectors in the U.S. today, Old Gunsights covers all major American manufacturers and many foreign ones. Approximately 400 photos accompany hundreds of market prices.
Author : Stephen Carpenteri
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1616088435
Provides descriptions, prices, and photographs of small firearms.
Author : Hal Herring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1461748577
From Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them More than a few of the actual guns once in the hands of the heroes and villains of America’s Old West still exist, housed in a dozen museums across the country—from the Model 1866 .44-40 that Chief Joseph famously surrendered to General Miles to Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Model 1851 revolvers; from Buffalo Bill’s .50 caliber breechloading needlegun nicknamed “Lucrezia Borgia” to John Wesley Hardin’s 1860 model .44 SA revolvers. Famous Firearms of the Old West follows the life stories of a dozen actual pistols, rifles, and shotguns instrumental in shaping America’s history—using them as entrées into the lives of the shooters themselves. This is a vivid portrait of famous Western characters, paired with the guns they used to make themselves famous or, as the case may be, infamous. It is a must for anyone interested in the history and lore of the Wild West, gun hobbyists, and tourists seeking a museum experience with a difference.
Author : S. P. Fjestad
Publisher :
Page : 1936 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2005-04-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781886768550
The "bible" of the firearms industry for accurate value information and descriptions of rifles, pistols, and shotguns. The industry standard for over 25 years!
Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061841013
Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from their land. The characters are unforgettable, the plot packed with action and gunfights from beginning to end.
Author : Chris Sajnog
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2015-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780989266468
Each year in America, 2 Million criminals break into homes just like yours. Is your aim good enough to guarantee your family's safety?This book has been teaching responsible gun owners the same effective techniques that created the world's deadliest snipers. The new 2nd edition has been redesigned to give you the most powerful methods in easy-to-follow instructions.A retired US Navy SEAL and bestselling author, Chris was hand-selected to develop the entire curriculum for the US Navy SEAL Sniper training program. If the US Navy SEALs selected him as their leading firearms instructor, shouldn't you?Now, you can use these world-class techniques to master your weapon and protect your family.It comes with access to 12 online video lessons. Watch Chief Sajnog show you his real-world methods, and read detailed explanations in this book packed with the most effective firearms training you'll ever find, without any of the fluff. If you're looking for "cool" stories or techniques, this is not the book for you. If you want to shoot like a Navy SEAL, this is where to start. You'll learn:● How to find the right position for you -- not the cookie-cutter methods that only work for some people -- so you can maximize your aim with as little effort as possible.● Simple training exercises you can do right now, at home, without having to spend 1,000's of dollars at the shooting range.● How to boost your accuracy by up to 95% -- using the "Navy SEAL focus" technique that you can master in just minutes.● The SEAL Sniper Trick that you can start using today, allowing you to instantly hit targets at twice the distance.● Why the aiming technique you were taught is completely wrong -- and how you can fix it instantly.● Plus... how to do all of this safely, without risking harm to your family.Protect your loved ones, your country, and yourself, with the firearms techniques developed by one of the most respected firearms trainers in the world.
Author : Tom Gunn
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1612514154
In 1975, Tom Gunn had a life-altering career change when he went from an eight-year stint as staff lawyer with the U. S. Senate to a job in aerospace sales and marketing at McDonnell Douglas. Gunn knew a lot about military appropriations and classified developments; he knew almost nothing about marketing, which may have been the most important attribute he brought to the job. Over the next 22 years, Gunn and the team he assembled and organized, developed a process for strategic selling and marketing that delivered $250 billion in sales of military and commercial aircraft, missiles, space systems, and logistic support, against strong and at times cut-throat domestic and international competition.Gunn Sights is both the story of that success and a handbook for anyone---experienced or neophyte---who wants to learn about high-powered selling, about assessing the competition and understanding the customer, and about using a defined process to shape strategic planning.Gunn details that process step-by-step, outlines cultural traps overseas and political realities at home, and makes his points in selected case studies---including what a Congressional opponent of a pending sale once called “the most sophisticated and far-reaching campaign to promote a sophisticated arms transfer that I’ve ever seen . . .” This is a business book about strategic selling and marketing, drawn from the experiences of Gunn and his associates, that takes one behind the scenes to see how deals are made in the aerospace industry.
Author : E.B. Sledge
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0891419195
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill—and came to love—his fellow man. “In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns
