FREE Downloadable Classic Shooting and Firearms Books
In today’s economy, Free is good. Here’s a list of older shooting books that can be downloaded for FREE from Google Books. This list, created by German Salazar, includes many classic treatises on marksmanship that still have value for today’s competitive shooters. In addition, we’ve included illustrated firearm histories, such as Townsend Whelen’s fascinating book, The American Rifle, and The Gun and its Development (9th Ed.), by William Wellington Greener.
In the list below, the title link will take you to the Google Books page for each book. You can read the entire book online, or you can download it to your computer as a PDF file* and save it (or print it). You can also create your own Google Library and save the books there for access from any computer.
The Bullet’s Flight From Powder to Target, Franklin W. Mann, 1909, 384 pages.
Irish Riflemen in America, Sir Arthur Blennerhassett Leech, 1875, 216 pages.
The American Rifle, Townsend Whelen, 1918, 637 pages.
Suggestions to Military Riflemen, Townsend Whelen, 1909, 243 pages.
Modern Rifle Shooting From the American Standpoint, W. G. Hudson, 1903, 155 pages.
The Gun and its Development, William Wellington Greener, 1907 (9th Ed.) 846 pages.
Manual for Rifle Practice: Including Suggestions for Practice at Long Range, George Wood Wingate, 1879, 303 pages.
How I Became a Crack Shot — With Hints to Beginners, W. Milton Farrow, 1882, 204 pages.
Cartridge Manufacture, Douglas Thomas Hamilton, 1916, 167 pages.
Description and Rules for the Management of the United States Rifle, Caliber .30, Model of 1903, United States Army Ordnance Dept., 1904 (5th rev. 1914), 72 pages.
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Thank you for posting this. These are great resources; especially Mann’s book for external ballistics. It’s dated but some of the principles are timeless.
-Bryan
Oh, man. The book “How I became a crack shot” is a blast to read in 2012.
And if I want to read one of these books I do what ?
http://books.google.no/books?id=obxNmpITIPkC&redir_esc=y
I cant seem to find a clickable link,
Where is a readable format or a pdf ?
EDITOR: I’m not sure if it allows downloads outside the US, but try clicking on the gear-shaped icon at right side of page. It looks like it allows you to save to your online library, though I don’t see a PDF option.
Thank you for these excellent resources. I have posted a link to your page to the Nitroexpress Forums. Many of our members are collectors and afficionados of classic guns and everything that goes with them. To us this is manna indeed!