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The Hunter's Guide to Accurate Shooting: How to Hit What You're Aiming at in Any Situation | 
 enlarge | Author: Wayne Van Zwoll
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 50702
Media: Paperback
Edition: First edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592284906
Dewey Decimal Number: 799
EAN: 9781592284900
ASIN: 1592284906
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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Product Description
A complete guide to shooting with every major big-game caliber.
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 Complete, reasonable and easy to read January 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best book on shooting I've read in a long time. It's got a lot of highly practical information about how to shoot a rifle. The byline is descriptive and applicable: the book is mostly about how to hit what you're aiming at in any situation.
Van Zwoll's writing is engaging, a rarity for a book on this subject. It's easy to read yet it still imparts information that will help just about everyone. I would have preferred slightly less dissertation on different kinds of cartridges, but those sections are easy to skip and the remainder of the book more than holds on its own.
 Should have been a booklet July 27, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book has some really good merits. It does give you some good shooting tips. It talks about aiming, position, trigger squeeze, equipment, practice, etc. I even used some of it's advice last fall to successfully complete a hunt. The books not bad, it's just not great. At least, it could have been a lot better. Not by adding more information, but buy trimming -a lot- of fat.
The first 7 chapters (about 1/4 of the book) are about the history of guns and various cartridges. Is it interesting? Sure. Does it help one become a more accurate shooter/hunter. Nope. Next, the author talks about equipment. Again, there is good information in there but it's surrounded by so much cruft that it can be hard to find the actual good advice hidden in the "look how much I know about guns and famous shooters".
Once you do get to the meat of it, he gives good advice and it's worth the read. It's obvious he has years of hunting experience and can probably teach a thing or two to anyone who feels they need this book. But there was so much superfluous information that I actually read 1/2 of this book and put it down for a year and half before finishing it this last week. The second half is more to the point, but he can still go off on tangents (even interesting ones like Annie Oakley and Ad Topperwien) that really don't equip you to become a better shot.
While this book is good, it should have been about 120 pages shorter and 1/2 the price.
Excellent read, informative July 15, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was a big surprise! Not only was it jam packed with great information and experiences, it actually was very well written and enjoyable to read. Most of these info books are dry, many are useless or have very little new "meat". This one, I just could not put it down, like a great novel or account. Even the stuff that we have all seen before was enjoyable to read the way it was reviewed here. I highly recommend and I will be sending 2 of these off as gifts to my other hunting/ gun buddies.
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