Posted: 9/22/2007 5:14:31 PM EDT
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I thought a list of rifle shooting books would be a good thing. Tactics,techniques,battle experiences etc. Please post your thoughts on the book's relevance or value,as well as a synopsis. To get it started: 1)"A Rifleman Went to War",H.W.McBride "Shooting biography"of an American who enlisted in the Canadian army to get into World War 1.Tells his general experiences and then addresses specific topics such as "the Rifleman in battle" "Notes on Sniping"and"The Pistol in War" A timeless classic. 2)"To Ride,Shoot straight,and Speak the Truth",Jeff Cooper. His best book,covering Riflery,mindset,hunting and fighting. Also by Cooper 3)"The Art of the Rifle" and 4)"Principles of Personal Defense"The last is probably the most important book you can read if you ever expect to fight to live. 5)"The Rifle Shooter" by G.David Tubbs. The winningest High-Power shooter in history.Dense,technical and a glimpse into the mindset of one of the great Riflemen of history. 6)"Ways of the Rifle",By Buhlman,Reinkemeier,and Eckhardt VERY in-depth look at 3 position rimfire shooting.Excellent line drawings,and hundreds of photos of hot Euro-babes shooting funky cool space rifles.Complements Tubbs book nicely. 7)"Battle Experiences,ETO:1944 to 1945",Lancer Militaria. AAR's from various units and ranks on combat after D-Day.Fascinating 8)"The Book of Two Guns",by Tiger McKee Nifty manual about using the pistol and rifle-specifically the 1911 and the AR-15.Essentially a training diary of ten years of various courses he took and digested.The book is formatted in the author's handwriting and line drawings(cute)but that didn't detract from the books usefulness for me.YMMV. 9)"Leadership and Training for the Fight",by Paul Howe The Delta shooter highlighted in "Blackhawk Down" writes a fascinating manifesto on what it takes to prepare leaders and soldiers for combat.Lots of on-point incidents illustrate his theses. Destined to be a classic. Finally,four books from Collector Grade Publications.These books are hideously expensive and hard to find,so try your local inter-library loan. "The Great Rifle Controversy","The M-14 Rifle""the Black Rifle",and "The SPIW:The Deadliest Weapon That Never Was"Tells the story of the post war search for a new Infantry rifle.Three parallel programs:M-14,M-16,and the SPIW(Special Purpose Individual Weapon)are detailed .The trials and tribulations,Internecine politics,blunders and bad luck leave you wondering how the M-16 is as good as it is(love it OR hate it). Hugh |
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I just purchased a few books myself, am still waiting on them to arrive from Amazon.com: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaysia and Vietnam 
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace
Neither of these books will make me a stone cold killer in their own right, but I hope to gain a better understanding of the modern conflict and the internal (individual) conflict as well. |
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Not a big fan of Grossman's. His central premises are based on S.L.A.Marshall's Ratio Of Fire theories,which have pretty much been de-bunked as fabricated. He's anti-RKBA. He wants to ban violent video games as "Training simulators"for the children  Likewise porn.In addition to the usual "exploitation of women",he puts forth the notion(I swear I'm not making this up) that men giving women facials is a rehearsal for domestic violence-in that the woman is in "Execution Position" and the man is shooting her with his...gun. I dunno 'bout that 
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I read On Killing a while back and the section on giving facials definitely stood out to me. Grossman may not be 100% correct on everything but I believe that he has opened up what is essentially an entirely new field of study, and his research and theories have paved the way for others to follow up on and refine. |