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The Ultimate in Rifle Accuracy: A Handbook for Those Who Seek the Ultimate in Rifle Accuracy; Whether It Be for Competition, Testing, or Hunting | 
 enlarge | Author: Glenn Newick
Publisher: Stoeger Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 119900
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 210
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0883171597
Dewey Decimal Number: 799.31
UPC: 037084061597
EAN: 9780883171592
ASIN: 0883171597
Publication Date: October 1990
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by Glenn Newick A handbook for the shooting enthusiast who seeks the ultimate in rifle accuracy, whether it is for competition, testing or hunting. This book contains the information needed to get the best performance from your rifle and is an up-to-date picture of what goes on in creating and shooting the ultimate in accurate rifles. Synthetic stocks, custom actions, stainless steel barrels and high power scopes are all discussed. 216 pages.
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 DATED. August 26, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Its like sitting next to an old man who wont stop telling you old war stories or keeps nagging on about how much better it was "back in the day"... But if you listen hard enough and dont get bored with the flashbacks, you can pick out bits and pieces of usefull information. Worth buying if under $6.
 You have to read this book! March 31, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
"The Ultimate in Rifle Accuracy" by Glenn Newick ISBN:0-88317-159-7
Friends, I just read a great book on the above mentioned title. It is short, and plumb full of tips, advice and teaching on getting the most accuracy out of your rifle. The author writes primarily of Benchrest type shooting and the 6PPC cartridge, but he does give advice about hunting rifles, calibers too. He has a whole chapter on getting the most out of your hunting rifle with many explanations of why shots go wrong. There is a detailed section on how to reload rifle rounds for maximum accuracy, in a most straight forward way. One of the tips I liked the most is that of never resting your front sling attachment point on the rest when you shoot. As the recoil moves the first 2/10 inch before the bullet leaves the barrel, you have an upward jerk that moves the shot off course. This was priceless. He also said that if you use any kind of a wind flag, be it a ribbon your groups will decrease by 25%. Just like those tips there are several throughout a very easy to read book. Take this from a man (Glenn Newick, not me) that can put 5 shots into the size of a dime at 200 yards, and you know you can come away with something. I learned about this book by reading a Precision Shooting Magazine compilation of articles. It referred to this book so many times I knew they were onto something. It is a short read and I guarantee you will come away with something that will make you a better rifle shoot. -Migs
Accuracy the simple way... June 1, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Glenn Newick has written an excellent book about the chase for shooting performance; contesting the wind, fighting the mirage, and stepping up with the big boys in search of tighter and tighter groups. In a conversational tone, with many reflections of the sport of benchrest shooting, some remarkable people, and where it is going from here; Glenn has delivered an exciting and informative read. Whether you are interested in NBRSA, or just desire to sight a rifle in with two shots fired, this is the book to buy. Specialized toward the benchrest crowd, this is a fascinating book from cover to cover.
 The name is misleading July 22, 2004
54 out of 57 found this review helpful
The title of the book is THE ULTIMATE IN RIFLE ACCURACY: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EQUIPMENT AND YOURSELF. Nowhere on the front or back cover, or inside flaps, is the reader told that the book is about benchrest shooting, except that the back cover indicates that the author is a champion in benchrest shooting. Yet the book is almost exclusively on benchrest shooting. The title page is even more misleading with the subtitle, "A handbook for those who seek the ultimate in rifle accuracy; whether it be for competition, testing, or hunting."
I picked up this book thinking that it would help me in my rifle shooting. I thought it would tell me how to hold the rifle in different positions like standing, sitting or prone. Of course, it only addresses bench rest. I expected the author to explain what features that contribute to accuracy to look for in a rifle, but he talks primarily about specific manufacturers and parts instead of what to look for in components. In a field where many components are made by small one-man shops, this information can become very dated. At one point, the author uses this forum to complain of a certain manufacturer, and used language that was a bit on the coarse side for a non-fiction technical book.
Chapters include Safety, History, Rifle, the 6PPC, Bullets, the Bench, Wind Shooting, Flags, and different categories of benchrest matches, like Light Varmint, Heavy Varmint and Unlimited/Heavy. I really can't tell the History chapter from the rest of the book, because most of the book seems to be the author telling stories from the history of benchrest shooting. At the end of each chapter, I just felt a hunger for more useful, technical information. In fact, in a couple of places, the author refers the reader to THE ACCURATE RIFLE by Warren Page for more detailed information. It seems that this was book I should have purchased instead! A chapter on "Benchrest Techniques for Hunting Rifles" is thrown in, but seems to be a half-hearted attempt at making the book applicable to a more general audience. (I can hear the publisher, "This book is all on benchrest shooting. Add a chapter on hunting so we can sell it to a broader audience.") Note that there is an entire chapter on the 6mm PPC cartridge. If you're not using it, you're a nobody, and you're not going to get any help here.
The benchrest glossary in the back was pretty good, and in fact, if the reader reads it first, he has a better chance of following the remainder of the book. It is hard to tell who the intended audience is. Obviously, it is solely for someone with an interest in benchrest shooting, but to an experienced benchrest shooter, it is too basic. To someone with no previous knowledge of benchrest shooting, it skips some basics. (After a few chapters, I begin to get the impression that benchrest shooting only measures group size, rather than calculate a target score as with other type of shooting competitions, but that is never explicitly stated. I am also still puzzled as to the purpose of that square on the targets.)
Although the book has photos (probably more than half are of prominent benchrest competitors either shooting or holding awards or targets), it could use more drawings to explain the technical points. It is hard to describe reloading with just words.
I conclude that the book is for a novice who has had an introduction to benchrest shooting, and wants a cursory overview of the sport. With a few changes, and an appropriate title, this book might be a good one. For example, change the title to "Introduction to Benchrest Shooting," delete the "hunting" chapter, and add a chapter explaining the basics of the sport, such as the GOAL. With changes like this it wouldn't lead the wrong audience to purchase it, and would be more valuable to the correct audience.
For competitive shooters only. December 29, 2003
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you really want to get into bench shooting then get this book. If you want to know about accurizing rifles, better shooting techniques and sighting then forget about it. I think the 'hunting' part was thrown in to get this book sold at Wal-Mart.For every item I found useful I had to wade through page after page of competitive bench jargon. For instance the chapter on shooting technique was mostly about selecting a rest and punching '0.xx' inch groups by moving the sandbag under the stock. Not to mention that every picture in this book is of some competitive shooter with a rifle and most seem to be from the 1980's.
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