Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols
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Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you'll find a real gem in those piles - and this book is one of the gems. Written by R.K. Wilson and published in 1943, the Textbook of Automatic Pistols gives a deeply technical explanation of all the very early automatic pistol designs, including a bunch of very unusual ones virtually never seen these days. It also covers the design and ballistics of the cartridges used by these guns - cartridges like the .45 Mars, .35 S&W (yeah, the .35), and 5mm Clement. It's an absolute wealth of information that you can't find anywhere else.
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