Best Guns

good quick delivery. All as required will read over Christmas

A great book for history & identification of different makers product from all the top gun makers.Informative.

You would expect a lot more from such a book very deceptive

When you have already spent or are contemplating spending a lot of money on a fine shotgun, there arises a natural curiosity about your shotgun. You want to know everything about that gun and the people who made it. After reading all the magazine reviews and forum postings, for some there will still exist the desire to learn more. Michael McIntosh's "Best Guns" is the next step for satiating that curosity."Best Guns" follows the format of an international tour of shotgun manufacturers. He begins his tour with the American manufacturers and then crosses the ocean to Europe. All of the classic gunmakers of Great Britain are visited before he crosses over to the Continent. Along with brief chapers on the French and German gunmakers, McIntosh takes his readers to the Spanish and Italian firms.Before recently passing away, Michael McIntosh was the dean of American shotgun writers. He earned this position through many years of hard work. There are not many people who have seen or experienced as much about the world of shotguns as Michael McIntosh. Is this the definitive book about the international world of shotguns? No, it is not. The industry is so large and diverse that it will take a publisher with very deep pockets to one day produce that definitive book. It is too bad that Michael McIntosh did not get the opportunity to write that definitive work. Until that work is one day published, "Best Shotguns" will serve as a well written guide for all shotgun enthusiasts.

More McIntosh. I don't know who has the definitive work on shotguns, but this one must be close. Especially loved the section on spagetti shotguns. I can tell you up front that, for American guns, he prefers Foxes, but if you have read his works, you already know that.This is just more McIntosh. And that is good, even though he has ruined my life. For years I've just considered guns to be tools like drills and saws .... tools to be used but not pampered. Then I discovered McIntosh, and Italian shotguns, and life has not been the same since. I've been shooting Japanese. Totally reliable. Never had a problem. But it's like driving a Toyota. I want a Ferrari.Michael is to blame.