Best firearms weapons history books according to redditors
We found 22 Reddit comments discussing the best firearms weapons history books. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 22 Reddit comments discussing the best firearms weapons history books. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
No, I'm not. I just read "the book". :D
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If you want to learn more about long range shooting, there's a great book by Ryan Cleckner called "Long Range Shooting Handbook." I highly recommend it.
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https://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Shooting-Handbook-Cleckner/dp/151865472X
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He also did several great videos for the National Shooting Sports Foundation that are on YouTube. And he's got a podcast that's really good too.
Longrange shooting handbook - Chapter 5.2.6
I'm sure there might be a few more examples/reasons, but I'm only on chapter 6.4.1
I highly recommend Long Range Shooting Handbook by Ryan Cleckner. Also look him up on YouTube. https://www.amazon.com/dp/151865472X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_o3fPBbQPWJ6H3
Comprehensive is difficult, since so many regions of the world have so many different types of swords. Even for European swords, most books focus on a single time period (ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, modern). One of the better books for comprehensive is:
Stone's Glossary is also a classic, with very broad coverage (but only brief entries for any particular weapon):
I would suggest Ryan Cleckner's Long Range Shooting Handbook
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Shooting-Handbook-Cleckner/dp/151865472X/
Bipod, go for a Harris, at least. There's a scope stickied at the top of the sub that's 700, and you're going to want decent rings. Expect at least another grand to get going, all things considered, because you really should have things like a single piece cleaning rod, and a bore guide, and so on.
You've got some reading to do, my friend.
It's available as an ebook and physically.
khopesh & sapara Good for breaking blocks, disemboweling, bleeding and decapitating. A good replacement for Kirks BSS.
chinese hook sword Designed for parrying, countering and disarming.
shamshir Notice the angled pommel; used for increasing the speed of the swing.
tebutje In a fiction like Dark Souls this could be a powerful weapon, non repairable, short/medium range with strong poison and bleeding build/damage low physical damage.
vajra, also known as a dorge or tokko Use some imagination for this one, a boss soul weapon or catalyst, used to cast lighting from the weapons durability, and can be swung like an air sword.
war hammer Essentially a small lucerne.
flail
I could try and find more, I have the same book the devs would likely be using for design and purposed use reference: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times
Edit: I found some more I liked.
"Madu" shield
Oriental maces
An assortment of forward curved swords These swords were designed to increase the likelihood of blood loss, and that reminds me that that bleeding should have two forms like poison/toxic. getting hit with any edged weapon would likely cause you to start bleeding so I think current bleed damage could be redesigned to be more realistic. There would be bleed caused in varying degrees by all edged weapons and then evisceration which would be caused by specific weapons, so bleed would become a DoT that scales over time and evisceration would be like bleed is right now.
This also makes me think about new combat items like a fictional equivalent to cocaine you would blow into your opponents face to make their heart rate increase incurring more/faster bleed/poison type damages. Maybe even faith/covenant based damage items used like gold pine resin; oils you could anoint your blade with that are aligned to a specific faith.
Katar
Indian palm blade(like a katar)
Upper congo double edged sword
Nice one. Thanks for your honest post. If you’re just starting out, I might suggest: https://www.amazon.com/dp/151865472X/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_0uATDb2WJJQG5
I have the book. I’m pretty set on what rifle I want. But he says in the intro “read the whole book before you buy if you’re serious”
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What scope rings did you buy? I see Vortex. What height?
Just a few:
"The World's Assault Rifles" by Gary Paul Johnston.
"The AK-47 and AK74 Kalashnikov Rifles and Their Variations" by Joe Poyer
"The M16/AR15 Rifle, 3rd Ed. (A Shooter's and Collector's Guide)" by Joe Poyer
"Ultimate Sniper 2006 : An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers" by John L. Plaster
Nice! If you haven't I'd recommend picking up a copy of the long range shooting handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Shooting-Handbook-Cleckner/dp/151865472X
It's not exhaustive, but it was pretty useful in coming up to speed (and cutting through the chaff).
Just got this for Christmas yesterday.
Long Range Shooting Handbook https://www.amazon.com/dp/151865472X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_hntyybWQ3F683
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honestly this book will give you just about everything you need to get started on long range.
Glad you liked it! That’s Ryan Cleckner, and I agree with you. I’ve really gotten into his stuff. He has more videos on YouTube (try searching “NSSF Ryan Cleckner”) and I’m loving going through his book (I’m a beginner). Best of luck!
The best place to start is with The Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. It's more than a bit dated, and there have not been enough revisions to it over the decades. Having said that, it's an excellent collection of images and brief descriptions of every kind of extant artifact from the period: cookware, textiles, metalware, ceramics of all sorts, weapons, and so on.
The Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia will give you a baseline to work from. Some of the artifacts (especially the spectacles) actually fall outside the time frame: too late or too early. But all of them are ballpark.
From that baseline, you'll want to then focus more specifically on what sort of material culture interests you. To narrow this down, I'd jump into the prolific website: The Eighteenth Century Material Culture Resource Center. It's a constantly updated site with lots of slideshows that examine specific occupations or types of artifacts.
It sounds to me that you're interested in the militaristic material culture of loyalists. To that end, I'd recommend grabbing yourself a copy of Osperey Publishing's American Loyalist Troops 1775-1783. It's a great introduction to the topic, with uniform illustrations and a few extant artifacts.
Other general guides I'd recommend to military material culture would be Don Troiani's Soldiers of the American Revolution and Neumann's Battle Weapons of the American Revolution.
Hope that helps!
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Shooting-Handbook-Cleckner/dp/151865472X
Long Range Shooting Handbook Paperback – January 31, 2016
by Ryan M Cleckner (Author)
The $20 spring kit for the Compass from Mcarbo helped me a lot, brings the trigger way down and does it safely from what I can tell. Before I installed that kit, I was actually moving the reticle just trying to squeeze the trigger on the lowest setting. With it installed it feels somewhere around 2-3lbs, breaks a lot cleaner, and there's no more jump when I squeeze the trigger. Also, if you're dialing distance with your turrets, you want a bubble level attached to the scope. A $10 one off amazon is doing fine for me. Without one, a couple degrees of cant between shots is inches (or feet) off at distance.
Also, even as an experienced shooter, when I started getting involved with long range this book from Ryan Cleckner taught me quite a few tips that made me even better.
I also bought a T/C Compass this year in 6.5CM, got a discounted shooting mat on Midway, a $20 bipod off amazon and a $100 UTG scope. I plan on upgrading to a Vortex, but the so-so UTG scope does okay for now. With that setup, I'm handloading Hornady ELD-X bullets and am doing a good job whapping golf balls at 300 yards currently.
Long Range Shooting Handbook
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Ryan Cleckner, former Ranger sniper, covers long range shooting (obviously), but the vast majority of the material is applicable to any kind of rifle shooting. He goes into a little history, terminology, choosing and setting up your rifle and gear, rifle maintenance, ballistics, calculations and scope adjustments, shooting technique, and a bunch more.
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Despite the 'long range' label, he doesn't go overboard on the minutia of reading wind or correcting for Coriolis force. He has a follow up book ("Advanced Long Range Shooting") for the more esoteric stuff. It's all written for a layman, and anyone with two brain cells to rub together could understand it. Essentially, you can read the book with no previous knowledge and come out with a great baseline for getting started with rifles.