Customer Reviews

The Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly (Pt. 6)

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If you own a shotgun, you should have this book. Well written, detailed procedures for accomplishing minor repairs on your own shotgun. This book will not make you a gunsmith, but it will save you money by giving you the confidence to make many minor repairs yourself. Covers most popular shotguns. Only negative, is that the photos are frequently too dark and lack detail.

This manual covers over 50 rifles and includes variation for simular rifles . It does not have exploded parts views or part numbers . For this you are going to need the factory manual . The step by step pictures are accompied with instructions . This book shows the various steps of disassembly in order . It is a great help getting a firearm apart , but sometimes fails to mention that some parts could be assembled backwards and fails to show the part as should be . Overall this book will help you disassemble a firearm , and reassemble it !

This book has most, if not every disassembly instuctions for any shotgun made this century or before. I have used this manual for my Remingtons: a 1100 and Sportsman 48 which was discontined in the late 60's. This book is the only one of it's kind which has so much information on so many different models without directly writing to each different manufacturer one needs.

Since I am a Gunsmith and deal with a variety of firearms I bought this book for disassembly/assembly instructions.

This book is almost 23 years old and in sore need of updating. It does not even cover the new S&W auto pistols, Glock series of Handguns, or the Heckler & Koch (HK) MP 5 submachine gun. All of these are in wide use by law enforcement. Further the Mossberg 500/590 isn't cover either. Duh! It is the only shotgun to pass the mil spec test and is in wide use by cops.

Unless you just have to have it for work wait for an updated version that covers firearms developed and in use by law enforcement in the last 23 years

This book is very good at step-by step instructions. The pictures are well taken of the actual part you are working on. There could be more model numbers to go over, but the ones they have are very good. The author is exerienced in gun repair and it shows up in the "tip" portion of every model. I think a list of specialty tools would benifit the author in this book, since each model of firearm needs at least one special tool. Not all, but most. Listing those would benifit the less experienced gunsmith. Thank you

I bought this book shortly after acquiring my first firearm, and found it to be extremely helpful in disassembly. The book covers many of the more popular American-made rifles, and includes a number of popular military-type rifles, both domestic and foreign. Each rifle has a section devoted to the proper sequence of its disassembly, and includes a paragraph or two on the rifle's developmental history.

Of course, the title should suggest that the manual only covers centerfire rifles, and therefore does not include pistols or rimfire rifles...

A good book that covers mostly obscure/ rare shotguns that have discontinued production. The steps are simple to follow and any trouble that you may encounter will be smoothened out. Excellent for those just starting out but lack of variety of guns and was published in '92 means this book has missed some important new firearms developements.

I bought the book with the hope that it would tell me how to re-assemble a Remington Model 12 pump action rifle. Unfortunately, the book didn't have the Model 12 (although it's got a Kintrek KBP-1, Mauser DSM, and other exotica). There IS a disassembly/assembly procedure for the Remington Model 121, but it is so obscure that it did absolutely no good, even though the models are very similar. One crucial picture shows the cartridge guide, but the picture is composed such that the reader has NO idea how the cartridge guide should be oriented.
All-in-all, a waste of money and time.

This is an good book for centerfire basics on specific rifles. If you are looking for the downside, the only one I can find is that Gun Digest needs to do an update on their manuals. I would like to see something in addition to this covering more up to date rifles. All in all very positive.

I found this book very useful.It tells you how to strip down most popular small bore rifles ,including the Ruger 10/22.Unfortunately there is no information on modifications.An excellent buy.