--- product_id: 61799165 title: "Vintage Guns: Collecting, Restoring & Shooting Classic Firearms" price: "102.74 DT" currency: TND in_stock: false reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/61799165-vintage-guns-collecting-restoring-and-shooting-classic-firearms store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Vintage Guns: Collecting, Restoring & Shooting Classic Firearms **Price:** 102.74 DT **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Vintage Guns: Collecting, Restoring & Shooting Classic Firearms - **How much does it cost?** 102.74 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/61799165-vintage-guns-collecting-restoring-and-shooting-classic-firearms) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Old-fashioned shotguns are coming back into vogue. This book provides practical advice on buying the right gun for restoration. It describes the steps and potential pitfalls on the path to renovation so that the gun can be used and enjoyed. Diggory Hadoke covers all aspects of collecting and restoring shotguns for use - on an affordable budget. It is written for the shooter rather than the engineer or historian, and covers the subject in a lively, informative manner. The author's passion is for old guns and for their continued use in the field. He argues that the quality of craftsmanship in many old guns, as well as the sheer pleasure of handling them, makes them superior to the machine-made over/unders of the modern shooting field. Topics covered include: * buying vintage guns * over & unders * servicing & maintenance * lightweight guns * customising * damascus/steel barrels * safety considerations * ribs/chokes * barrels/locks/action/woodwork * proofing * sidelocks/boxlocks * extensions/locking bolts * ejectors * operating levers * single triggers * gunstock issues * bore sizes * ammunition for vintage guns and much more Review: Gentlemen, choose your weapons - I bought a dozen other books about vintage British shotguns before I found this one. This is easily the best. If you are intending to buy just one book on this subject (irrespective of whether you are a beginner or an expert) get this one. We can dismiss the ones which were written in the nineteenth century (e.g. Greener's The Gun - Its History and Development) because they are plainly out of date. (Also Greener had an axe to grind - he made guns and he wanted to sell them.) Similarly (but regrettably) the otherwise excellent books by Gough Thomas and Geoffrey Boothroyd already seem old fashioned. Gough Thomas thought an interest in guns as opposed to shooting was misplaced, which is all very well except that vintage guns now constitute one of the fastest-growing areas of the current antiques trade, even though UK legislation makes owning most of these guns extremely difficult. And both Gough Thomas and Boothroyd set a precedent for presenting this sort of book in a relatively small format. Even Terry Wieland, who recently wrote a book covering very much the same ground for the US market, adopted this format, with the result that the excellent photos in his book cry out to be larger. Not so with Hadoke. Expressing polite dissent from Gough Thomas, he is happy to share his obvious enthusiasm and expertise irrespective of whether you come to the subject as a prospective user or a prospective investor. This is not a history of how shotguns developed, nor an exercise in nostalgia. Rather it is an assessment of the place in the modern world of the relatively few surviving examples of vintage guns. The miracle is that there are still so many to choose from. Hadoke offers sensible advice about how to approach this bewildering choice. The illustrations are excellent, nothing is taken for granted, and above all the book is large enough so that you can see what he is talking about. I therefore think the desertcart summary of this book is misleading. Not many people in the UK have a gun cupboard, still less a gun cupboard with a forgotten gun in it. And anybody who has will not be in need of this book. But for the rest of us, this is the one to have. Review: Very good book. - Im a big fan of Diggory after reading his column in the Sporting Shooter magazine every month, so i snapped up this book as soon as I discovered it. Have to say, his writing style is very easy to read, and the book is very enjoyable for an enthusiast like myself. Its full of good information, photographs and advice. Diggorys love for old guns, restoring, and the history surrounding them is obvious. I enjoyed the book so much I rushed out and bought his other book too! ## Features - New - Mint Condition - Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon - Guaranteed packaging - No quibbles returns ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 791,976 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 56 in Small Firearms, Guns & Other Equipment 215 in Target Shooting 17,791 in General Sports, Hobbies & Games | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 Reviews | ## Images ![Vintage Guns: Collecting, Restoring & Shooting Classic Firearms - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QAP3s3CML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gentlemen, choose your weapons *by L***N on 14 November 2009* I bought a dozen other books about vintage British shotguns before I found this one. This is easily the best. If you are intending to buy just one book on this subject (irrespective of whether you are a beginner or an expert) get this one. We can dismiss the ones which were written in the nineteenth century (e.g. Greener's The Gun - Its History and Development) because they are plainly out of date. (Also Greener had an axe to grind - he made guns and he wanted to sell them.) Similarly (but regrettably) the otherwise excellent books by Gough Thomas and Geoffrey Boothroyd already seem old fashioned. Gough Thomas thought an interest in guns as opposed to shooting was misplaced, which is all very well except that vintage guns now constitute one of the fastest-growing areas of the current antiques trade, even though UK legislation makes owning most of these guns extremely difficult. And both Gough Thomas and Boothroyd set a precedent for presenting this sort of book in a relatively small format. Even Terry Wieland, who recently wrote a book covering very much the same ground for the US market, adopted this format, with the result that the excellent photos in his book cry out to be larger. Not so with Hadoke. Expressing polite dissent from Gough Thomas, he is happy to share his obvious enthusiasm and expertise irrespective of whether you come to the subject as a prospective user or a prospective investor. This is not a history of how shotguns developed, nor an exercise in nostalgia. Rather it is an assessment of the place in the modern world of the relatively few surviving examples of vintage guns. The miracle is that there are still so many to choose from. Hadoke offers sensible advice about how to approach this bewildering choice. The illustrations are excellent, nothing is taken for granted, and above all the book is large enough so that you can see what he is talking about. I therefore think the Amazon summary of this book is misleading. Not many people in the UK have a gun cupboard, still less a gun cupboard with a forgotten gun in it. And anybody who has will not be in need of this book. But for the rest of us, this is the one to have. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good book. *by J***X on 25 February 2013* Im a big fan of Diggory after reading his column in the Sporting Shooter magazine every month, so i snapped up this book as soon as I discovered it. Have to say, his writing style is very easy to read, and the book is very enjoyable for an enthusiast like myself. Its full of good information, photographs and advice. Diggorys love for old guns, restoring, and the history surrounding them is obvious. I enjoyed the book so much I rushed out and bought his other book too! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by K***S on 20 February 2015* Excellent book,well written and very nice clear photos. There was a huge gap in the relative bibliography, until the release of this book.Thank you Diggory for this and for your other two books.At last something new (despite the "Vintage" title!) 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