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Thejunk07

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I am looking for some literature on shooting techniques (like tips, long range adjustments), gun disassembly and reassembly, cleaning, and breaking in a new rifle... If anyone can suggest anything, books, magazines, websites, that would be great! Thanks.
 
shooting techniques (like tips, long range adjustments),
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Jeff Cooper's "Art of the Rifle" is a good start
gun disassembly and reassembly, cleaning, and breaking in a new rifle
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Start with the owners manual for your rifle, then look on youtube.

Frankly you will probably get better answers if you were a little more specific on what you are looking for.
 
Many gun stores have the large paperback manuals for take-down and reassembly of the various types of firearms. Revolvers, semi-auto pistols, seemi-auto rifles, bolt-action rifles, shotguns...I dunno. Over a half-dozen.
 
To emcon5... I am looking to purchase my first brand new rifle, haven't been shooting very long and I have read a lot about barrel break in and don't really know which way is the "right way" so that is one thing I want to know and then I want to read about the actual techniques to placing a good shot at range, wind, drop, breathing technique, positions... Basically if you were sitting in the field about to shoot something 400 yards away I want to learn everything I have to do to be successful...
 
Success comes from skill which comes from a lot of trigger time in field positions, not from a bench rest.

Knowing trajectory is a must. For example, a 150-grain '06, if zeroed at 200 yards, will be about six inches low at 300 and about two feet low at 400. Thus, accurate range determination becomes very important when shooting beyond 300 yards.

Learning to dope the wind's effect is another very important factor. At 500 yards, a mere "nice breeze" will drift that '06 bullet right at two feet.

I've never worried about "break in". I never even heard of it before coming to TFL in 1998, and I'd already been shooting centerfire for nearly fifty years. Lots of sub-MOA during those years.
 
Yes that is what I am interested in at least having in my head before I start getting more serious. Where can I read all of that a learn up on it??
 
I would start here:

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Rifle-Jeff-Cooper/dp/1581605927/ref=pd_sim_b_1

It covers the fundamentals pretty well, and is fairly inexpensive. It doesn't go too deeply into shooting in the wind, and frankly aside from books on highpower competition where you have wind flags and a spotting scope to read mirage, I am not sure how much you will find on the topic for field shooting.

Maybe a book on sniping, I really don't know.

As to barrel break in, this is the best procedure I have found:
http://www.6mmbr.com/gailmcmbreakin.html
 
Anything by Capstick :D

Taught me some very valuable shooting lessons like where to to take the shot on an elephant and never ever injure a leopard!
 
How about Page's "The Accurate Rifle"? It is like a primer for benchrest. I read it and liked it a lot...learned about bags and technique and whatnot. Here is a link.

-cls
 
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