The Complete Book of Shooting

[echo5whiskey]

When my mom passed away a couple years ago, she left me all my dad's old books. Among them, I found some real treasures (at least to me); a full set of scoutmaster books with a BSA whet stone, an old fieldcraft and survival book and a tracking book (both of which are packed away due to moving), three of my dad's cruise books, full collections of Shakespeare and Dickens, and a host of classics--both fiction and non-fiction. Last, but not least, I found a 1965 copy of The Complete Book of Shooting by Jack O'Connor with Roy Dunlap, Alex Kerr, and Jeff Cooper.

Up until recently, I've only browsed most of them; but with starting to pack stuff up, I decided to take a better look at this particular one. I still didn't read it in its entirety, but I found several places pretty interesting. I'm attaching what I found the most intriguing (and I'm limited to five attachments )

Complete Book of Shooting Cover.jpg
The cover has seen better days, but the pages are--by and large--in good shape for being 55 years old and not particularly taken care of.

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Jack O'Connor's statement regarding the birth of AR-15s and their use in the military.

Jeff Cooper's Hunting Revolver.jpg
One of Jeff Cooper's hunting revolvers. I just thought it was a neat pic.

Jeff Cooper_Carry Positions.jpg
And here I thought that appendix-carry was a modern concept. Lol

Overall, there's some pretty fascinating content in the book. I'll attach the table of contents in a follow-up post. If anything piques anyone's interest, I'll post some more.

[echo5whiskey]

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[SeriousStudent]

There is a huge amount of knowledge in notse older books. I have some that are over a hundred years old in my library.

Research is a good thing, I am glad you are keeping the family heirlooms.

[Business_Casual]

Real men wrote those books.

[jsbhike]

I have a copy as well, very good reading.


Another interesting read:

https://books.google.com/books/about...kp_read_button

[SteyrAUG]

Real men wrote those books.

Real men who survived real shootouts wrote a lot of those books. I'd rather read that stuff than Spetnaz Live Action Role Playing Fantasy Camp stuff.

[Straight Shooter]

These info in these books is PRICELESS.
I grew up reading the old Masters, & have many of their books. These men were rough, tough, killers of evil men who would nor could in any way exist today.
Some were whats commonly called 'raaacist", drank & smoked & cursed but could be counted on to get any job done. No libtarded, mamby pamby shit.
Coopers Art of the Rifle is excellent. Keith's HELL, I WAS THERE should be mandatory reading.
Skeltons border antics were legendary. The tales of the old Africa big game hunters used to thrill me to no end, and still do.
That S&W Model 29 in your pic, I believe that to be the one Cooper had a negligent discharge with, was sitting in his living room next the fireplace with a friend whose name I forget, over drinks I think, he checked the piece and thought it empty, took aim at I think an electrical meter outside the window, went to "dry fire" & BOOM! put a hole dead center in the meter. He said he never saw that round in the cylinder. That has always stayed with me, as I remember thinking if HE could have an ND, anyone could.
The pic where you said you thought appendix carry was a modern concept...nah. The old ones tried EVERYTHING. Look up Fitz Special. Mexican Carry. New York reloads...many ways they used to carry, many guns sometimes.
I have a whole collection of library quality reprints of most of the most popular books of the last century dealing with guns, ammo, ordnance, hunting, shooting, self defense, ect. You have prompted me to re-visit some of them whilst I await a return to work.
Thanks for the post & pics!

[Grand58742]

Jeff Cooper's Hunting Revolver.jpg
One of Jeff Cooper's hunting revolvers. I just thought it was a neat pic.

Boar hunting with a pistol, even with a .44 Mag, is not a summer camp activity.

I wonder how the boar reacted when hearing those brass balls clang as he got closer?

[echo5whiskey]

I was actually surprised at how much technical information they put in there. As some of y'all have said, it would be too much for today. I've got some more interesting parts I picked out, but I had forgotten my login info for the image hosting site I use. I'll try to get them up soon. Also, as soon as I find them again, I'll try to get some content from the other titles uploaded.