Best Guns [Hardcover]

Michael McIntosh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1989

Classic book on shotguns in a fully revised and expanded form. Gun makers, and nature of the shotgun are covered.

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About the Author

Michael McIntosh is an authority on shooting guns and has earned a devoted following worldwide. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 418 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books; Revised edition (January 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0924357797
• ISBN-13: 978-0924357794
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #926,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review above is Baloney, October 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Guns (Hardcover)

The above review is a bunch of baloney by someone who has never read the book. This book has nothing to do with handguns at all. It's about shotguns, and specifically about the two barrel variety. - - This happens to be an excellent book and a great resource for someone contemplating the purchase of a nice double gun. - -

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Work, July 14, 2004

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Mouse Hunter (Greensboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Guns (Hardcover)

More McIntosh. I don't know who has the definitive work on shotguns, but this one must be close. Especially loved the section on spagetti shotguns. I can tell you up front that, for American guns, he prefers Foxes, but if you have read his works, you already know that.

This is just more McIntosh. And that is good, even though he has ruined my life. For years I've just considered guns to be tools like drills and saws .... tools to be used but not pampered. Then I discovered McIntosh, and Italian shotguns, and life has not been the same since.

I've been shooting Japanese. Totally reliable. Never had a problem. But it's like driving a Toyota. I want a Ferrari.

Michael is to blame.

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old? New? Sidelocks? Boxlocks? Help!, November 6, 2004

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Zoic Cimo (Pollockpines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Guns (Hardcover)

The book has a lot of history, and is very informative on the history of double guns, and especially detailed in that of American heritage, I read a substatial amount about auto ejectors which I understand, twisted bore and smooth bore, pretty much self explainable, but exactly what is a sidelock, what is a boxlock? How do they differ? Old or new which way is the way to go? I look forward to buying a few doubles and using them. Obviously I do not need a $10,000, or even a $15,000 plus double, but I would like one I could use in the field and have something of value down the road in the next 20 or 30 plus years. I think a few informative drawings and discriptions a little more of the understanding of the workings and parts in detail would be benefical. I am not new to firearms for I have a found respect of them and their uses in more than a few areas but doubles are fairly new to me, and with that, new terminology and parts are hard to understand without knowing what to look for.