Gun Digest 2007 (Paperback)

by Ken Ramage (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
-Combines extensive firearms listings with authoritative product and trend reports from industry experts

-Sales of previous editions consistently top 70,000 copies

The definitive resource for firearms enthusiasts, Gun Digest 2007, is the firearm industry's answer to an annual report to customers. Readers gain all the latest trend information through product reports from top- name authorities, and access to a one-of-a-kind catalog index -- with exhaustive illustrations -- of major and lesser-known brands of firearms, and valuable contact information.

This superior guide:

-Provides readers with technical specifications they need to wisely select and properly maintain firearms -Features 240 color pages that highlight product reports and advancements in the firearms field

-Reviews catalogued accessories readers use to enhance firearms, including scopes, metallic sights, laser sights, and reloading press

Gun Digest 2007 encompasses all the firearm details shooters and collectors are looking for.

About the Author
Ken Ramage is an avid firearm enthusiast with an interest in competition shooting and loading cartridges. He also is the editor of additional top-selling annuals including Guns Illustrated, Handguns and Gun Digest Book[registered] of Modern Gun Values.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Gun Digest Books; 61 edition (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896893162
• ISBN-13: 978-0896893160
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #458,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It just keeps going down hill, August 10, 2006

By	Charlie LURP - See all my reviews

Gun Digest has been going down hill every year since it sold out to new owners back around 1999. This year is a new low. Very few articles and many errors in the canned specs.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Improvement, December 24, 2006

By	Dennis Walter Kirsch (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After the depressingly poor content of the Gun Digest 60th edition (2006), I had decided to not purchase the 61st edition. However, I did anyway. I was surprised to find that it was a definite improvement over the 2006 edition. While not nearly up to the standards of the pre-Ken Ramage administration (why is he still there?), it did have several interesting articles, the most enjoyable of which (to me) were those on the Remington Rolling Block rifle and the .38-44 Smith and Wesson Outdoorsman. At least this time, Ramage demonstrated good sense by not having any more knife articles, as he did the last time. There was one "foul ball" article entitled "The AuVer System" that was total garbage and has no place in any gun publication. Aside from that, the rest of the edition was at least readable and somewhat interesting, if not up to the high standards of the editions published under the late John Amber's editorial direction. Again, this edition is published in full color and on slick paper. All that does is run up the production cost. I'd far rather see interesting articles, and the money should be spent there than on cosmetics. Therefore, I'm giving the 61st edition 3 stars. At least, that's enough to get me to buy the 62nd edition when it is published.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gun Digest 2008, October 5, 2007

By	W. Frayne (Huntsville AL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Gun Digest 2008: The World's Greatest Gun Book (Paperback)

Every year for the past thirty odd years I have ran out in the early fall and purchased the annual Gun Digest as soon as it hits the bookstores. I did so again this year with the Gun Digest 2008. Unfortunately there has been a decline in quality to the Gun Digest in the past several years and John Amber the original editor and publisher of the Gun Digest would be very sadden to see GD 2008. Under John Amber, the GD every year was always an encyclopedia of technical, historical and pertinent related information for the collector, the sportsman, the historian and the gun enthusiast.
Now Gun Digest 2008 is basically a coffee table book. The photography is uniformly excellent but half the book is a catalog and the remaining half is a update on what the fireamrns industry has produced the past year i.e. Reports From The Field (Rifles, Shotguns, Autoloaders, Sixguns and others,Single Shots, Black Powder). Apart from a few nostaglia pieces ( Me and the CMP, 50 years in Boy Scout Shooting) that is the GD 2008 in a nutshell. The sole article that caught my attention was on the restoration of a Model 1886. I personally wish there had been more on restorations and custom rifles and handguns.
It just amazes me that with the explosion of firearms related forums and websites on the Internet (and I must admit that such information is not always credible)the Gun Digest cannot return to its' previous high standard. The ideas and material are out there.
Would I buy GD 2008 again? Sure but I will hope that GD 2009 is better.