The Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly

by J.B. Wood

Book Overview

From Contents - Introduction; Reassembly; Tools; Browning (models); Harrington Richardson; High-Standard (models); Ithaca (models); Iver Johnson; Marling Model 55; Mossberg (models); Remington... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873491238
• ISBN13: 9780873491235
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.2" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Another great Wood book!

I've got the whole series of these books and they are all well written, very well illustrated, and just plain useful. I like way he identifies variations of particular models where applicable.

Excellent reference book

A classic! Easy to read, easy to follow, and explains everything you need to know. Working on obtaining the whole collection.

This is a keeper!

This book along with, "The Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings" was given as a gift to my son who, with his brother, is a novice hunter, with a beginning interest in gunsmithing. They have acquired a number of shot guns and rifles and found this book matched their needs exactly. They found this book fascinating and were so excited. Clear, helpful, detailed and would appear to be valuable for both the beginner and serious firearm enthusiasts. They have put it to practical use - so easy to use! These books have not been relegated to the library or reference shelf yet and as reluctant as I am to say it, they remain in the bathroom, so are read and reviewed almost daily and I don't see that changing anytime soon. They can't say enough good things about the book - THIS IS A KEEPER!

Good Shotgun reading

Yet another good reading for the beginner, or for someone who specifically onws one of the shotguns in the book. As I have said in another review, I would like to see Gun Digest publish another volume with newer production shotguns in addition to this book. All in all, very good, worth reading.

"magnum" opus

There are a LOT of shotguns described in this book. If you need a bench reference on how to disassemble a BROAD variety of guns this is the book for you. A non-gunsmith myself, I would have prefered something with more tips/tricks or theory that would allow more expression for my own mechanical aptitudes, hopefully resulting in the better functioning of my shotgun. This is not the book for the discussion of why your gun does not feed consistently, nor why you use so many barrel seals. Instead this is more of a no frills, paint by the numbers, race through taking apart and putting together a myriad number of dissimilar models (with an index of other guns that are similar, or variants) that cover the entire spectrum of shotgunnery. I gave it five stars because the pictures are quite clear and if you are stuck half way through the reassembly of an unusual shotgun, your answer may well be in here.