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Download Historical Books and Booklets
- America and the War (WWI) 1929 (5mb) – Print landscape in duplex and fold in the center (it’s a booklet)
- Big Fish and How to Catch Them 1939 (2mb) – Print landscape in duplex and fold in center (it’s a booklet)
- Colt on the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-Breech Fire-Arms 1855 (8mb)
- The Rifleman’s Handbook for Military Riflemen 1904 (14mb) – Print landscape in duplex and fold or cut in center (makes a book)
- The War Traders 1913 (9mb)
Download Historical Magazines
- American Angler 1893 (24 mb)
- American Rifleman April, 1935 (47 mb)
- Arizona Highways November 1958 (Gunslingers of the Old West by Lea F. McCarty) (13 mb)
- Arms and the Man 1908 to 1923 (250 issues are available FOR FREE DOWNLOAD) Arms and the Man was one of the predecessors to The American Rifleman. The first in their history was The Rifle: May1885–June1888 then Shooting and Fishing July 5, 1888–Dec 6, 1906 then Arms & The Man: Dec 13, 1906–May 15, 1923, and finally the American Rifleman as of June 1, 1923.
- Chrysler Motors Magazine, March, 1939 (3.5 mb)
- Hunting and Fishing Magazine, August 1944 (36 mb)
- National Sportsman Magazine 1929
- Outdoors Magazine April, 1941 (38 mb)
- Outdoors Magazine September, 1941 (40 mb)
- Ripley’s Believe it or Not, 1957 (St. Augustine, Fla) (8 mb)
- The Marksman- October 1950 (UK) (65 mb)
- The Marksman- September 1950 (UK) (69 mb)
- The World’s Book 1908 (25 mb)
- Wild West Weekly Oct. 24, 1902 (2.2 mb)
- Winchester Record – March 26. 1920 (Company Magazine) (6 mb)
Download Historical Gun Reference Books
- Arms Heritage Index of Topics, Volumes 1-10
- B-17F Bomber Flight Log 1943-1944 (2mb)
- Ballistic Conversion Chart
- Bannerman Island (W. Martin Hill tells tale of working there in ’58) Copy thanks to Navy Arms.
- BATF Regulations- US Code Chapter 44
- Canadian And London Gunmakers to 1900
- Civil War Pictures (Power Point File- 10 mb)
- Crescent Trade Brands
- Daisy Air Gun Chronology
- DWM Headstamp Codes
- Gun Catalog Reprint List
- Gun Manual Reprint List
- Ideal Reloading Catalog Chronology
- List of Names in Gunmaking Business (cross-referenced)
- International Proof Marks
- Metric/English Conversion Files
- Serial Numbers PDF (Link is to Blues Book of Used Gun Values)
- Shotgun Markings by Joe Vorisek
- Spanish Manufacturers – Models, Codes and Markings
- STEVENS VISIBLE LOADER TAKEDOWN (From: The American Rifleman)- Free Download
- Stoeger Catalog Chronology
- The Great Escape Revisited in 2012
- Trivia Quiz from February 2012 Newsletter
- Trivia Quiz from March 2012 Newsletter
- Trivia Quiz from May 2012 Newsletter
- United States Cartridge Revolver Names 1865-1930
- Winchester Serial Number and Date of Manufacture