Jim Carmichel's Book of the Rifle

by Jim Carmichel

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943822556
• ISBN13: 9780943822556
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Outdoor Life Books
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

All the basics, well-written

It's a shame this volume is out of print. The author covers every aspect of riflery, including a couple of chapters on ballistics and the finer points of shooting technique. The book does not cover competitive rifle shooting in detail, but that was not the author's intention. Carmichael avoids the cant and folklore of some other shooting sports authors, and doesn't put his opinions forward as truth engraved in stone. As an introduction for the curious beginner looking for a good grounding, The Book of the Rifle is hard to beat.

Enjoy Reading and A Lot of Useful Info

I like the author's writing style and his ability to tell storys. This makes this book a very enjoyable reading. This book covers a wide selection of topics that I find to be very useful. It tends to be quite heavy on varimint rifles though; this is fine with me. Some area of this book are kind of overlapping with his another (older) book called "Modern Rifles". If you have to choose between these two books, you may want to choose this book.

a book by an expert

Chapters: Those twisting grooves called rifling, Building today's sporting rifle, Today's rifles-how good?, Rifle stock-more than a handle, Custom rifle stock, Triggering a revolution, Rifle ammo(past & present), Understanding ballistics, Lessons in trajectory, Wind-the shooter's challenge, Bullet performance on game, Varmint rifles-the super accurate hunters, Rifles for Africa's dangerous game, All-purpose rifle-hits & myths, Rifle sight-past & present, Telescopic sight, How to sight-in a rifle & have in stay that way, Teaching yourself to be a crackshot, The accuracy game, Is handloading for you?, and The ageless .22 rimfire.