Gun Digest 2002: The World's Greatest Gun Book [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Ken Ramage (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Shooters, collectors and students of the gun continue to expect the best from "The World's Greatest Gun Book" and this 56th edition will exceed all expectations. A new full-color section reveals 30 eye-popping photos of some of the best engraved and custom guns available today. All-new feature articles, fresh new product reports, and a completely updated catalog and reference section fill this new edition.

The articles represent the best writing on diverse firearms-related topics including scopes and mounts, European guns, handloading and rifle, shotgun, and pistol reviews. Contributing authors are authorities on topics such as history, handloading, collecting rifles, shotguns, handguns and much more.

The helpful Directory of the Arms Trade section is also fully updated. The heavily illustrated catalog section highlights the most recent models of handguns, rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders and airguns, plus the latest accessories including reloading equipment, optics, sights, chokes, and brakes.

-Full-color photos of today's best engraved and custom guns

-Completely updated catalog and reference section

-Fresh new product reports

-All-new feature articles

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 558 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications; 56th edition (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873492951
• ISBN-13: 978-0873492959
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,076,267 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	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

By	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

13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Gun Digest 2002 Nonsense, January 1, 2002

By A Customer

The current edition of Gun Digest continues with the same old listings of firearms in the back pages as well as the same pictures. It's a copy of the previous Gun Digest with some minor updates in the catelog pages of firearms and ammunition ballistics, as well as accessories. It's not worth buying if you have last years gun digest. There are perhaps two or three interesting articles but a lot of them are out in left field, wierd, or of the who cares variety. I got swindled even at Amazons cut rate price. Last time I buy one of these "blivets" without a personal perusal.