Jane's Gun Recognition Guide [Paperback]

Ian Hogg (Author), Rob Adam (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996

Jane's Guns Recognition Guide features all the military rifles, pistols, features all the military rifles, pistols, revolvers, machine-guns and sub-machine guns in action today. From the US Army's newest infantry rifle to former Soviet weapons now in terrorist hands, as well as ex-World War II guns still soldiering on, this essential book enables you to identify them all.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1St Edition edition (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0004709799
• ISBN-13: 978-0004709796
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,191,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, definitely one of the better ones., January 20, 2000

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"hawk-hkg11" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jane's Gun Recognition Guide (Paperback)

Well, this book has it all, except for shotguns. If your looking for handguns, this book is for you. 200 out of 500 pages in this book is pistols and revolvers. This book is a statistics book, with a gun on every page. The pages are obviously double sided. With 500 pages, it has over 1000 firearms. I was dissiapointed to find only one photo of the gun, and the photos are in B&W. This book is not for the gun enthusiast who would like to see good color photos and pictures of people in action with them. This is for the research person or for persons in the military, who wishes to gain information on weapons. Still, overall, this book is worth the buy if you just want to know more about guns.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat disappointing, March 24, 2001

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Don McLeod (Upper Hutt, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jane's Gun Recognition Guide (Paperback)

Often careless in detail; the small automatic featured twice on the cover cannot be found anywhwere inside.

Several illustrations are completely wrong; Beretta Model 84 shows model 81;, Colt Mk IV Series 80 shows an ancient M1911; Czech CZ27 shows CZ24; MAS Mle 1935S shows Mle 1935A; Mle 1950 shows M1935S; Star MD picture is mirror-image, and there may be others; Star M40 Firestar picture shows an opposition firm's Llama M87; Walther P5 (1975) shows a P38 (1938 design).

Countries of origin; Beholla (made in Germany) labelled "Spain"; Bergmann-Bayard principally made in Belgium, as evidenced by markings listed; and MANY sloppy errors in naming, weights, calibres. I mean to say; the FEG FP9 (950 g) "weighs slightly less than the Belgian pistol", which is given as 882 g!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A useful tool for identifying firearms, July 1, 2000

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Dilip Susruta Samarasinghe - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jane's Gun Recognition Guide (Paperback)

This is a very good reference book and though it does not include shotguns, most firearms are featured including some of the more obscure and exotic types. I was particularly interested in its coverage of heavy sniper rifles which are becoming very important in peacekeeping operations around the world.