Gun Digest 2004: The World's Greatest Gun Book [Paperback]

Ken Ramage (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2003

Paperback: 560 pages Publisher: Krause Publications; 58th edition (July 1, 2003) Language: English ISBN: 0873495896 Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches Shooters, collectors and students of the gun continue to expect the best fro

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About the Author

Ken Ramage has been involved in the shooting sports for more than 50 years and the firearms industry for 30 years. His first book - Lyman's Black Powder Handbook - was published in 1975. He edits Gun Digest and other firearms titles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications; Revised edition (July 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873495896
• ISBN-13: 978-0873495899
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,249,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gun Digest Annual, September 17, 2003

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Daveomatic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gun Digest 2004: The World's Greatest Gun Book (Paperback)

The gun digest has been the premier firearms publication since 1944. No other annual has covered the field consistantly for this amount of time. There are many interesting articles from many contributing authors over its 60+ year span that are timeless in their relevance. Buy and collect gun digests where you can find them and you will have a wealth of information at your fingertips. Especially the gun digest treasuries editions. Those are truly gold. They contain, besides reprints of the best articles, a thoroughly indexed cross reference by author or subject of all the articles published in the various publications of the gun digest up to the date of publication of the treasury edition. The last treasury, the 7th was from 45 years of gun digest. I'm hopeful that the current owners, Krause books will come out with a new treasury edition soon. If you view the gun digest as a cumulative work or as a single standalone issue, you can truly appreciate its command of the firearms and shooting dicipline fields. The 2004 edition continues this fine tradition.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Change the title to Local Greatest Gun Book, December 21, 2003

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C.E.J. van den Berg (Netherlands, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gun Digest 2004: The World's Greatest Gun Book (Paperback)

One of the world's greatest handguns is the Wildey, it isn't even mentioned in the handgun section, in the WEB directory Wildey is mentioned as Widley !! It's a same.
Another well known handgun and beatifully designed is the Tanfoglio (www.tanfoglio.it), it is only mentioned once in the Manufactorer's Directory.
In the rifles section there's no mention about the Accuracy Precision Rifles (one of the best sniper rifles in the world).
The front page is different on the one I got at home and the one shown on Amazon.com Why is that?
The front page also says 'Complete Illustrated...' well it isn't complete at all

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but,,,,,, May 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Gun Digest 2004: The World's Greatest Gun Book (Paperback)

If you have the 2001, 2002 or 2003 copies don't buy it, very few changes from those editions, otherwise, the book is an essentisl reference and I like the colored section on custom guns.