📚 Rifles

The shoulder arm: bore and ballistics, and the marksman’s long practice at distance.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rifles in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The gun	C. J. Chivers	2010	6
	The use of rifles for game and target	Charles Singer Landis	1922	5
	The hunting rifle	Townsend Whelen	1940	5
	The bolt action	Stuart Otteson	1976	5
	The crack shot	Edward C. Barber	1868	4
	The Kentucky rifle	John G. W. Dillin	1924	4
	The rifle book	Jack O'Connor	1949	4
	Mauser military rifles of the world	Robert W. D. Ball	1996	4
	Gunsmithing	Patrick Sweeney	1998	4
	AK-47	Larry Kahaner	2006	4
	Dangerous-Game Rifles	Terry Wieland	2006	4
	Shooter's bible	Jay Cassell	2012	4
	The Gun digest Book of firearms assembly/disassembly	Wood, J. B.	1900	3
	Big Game Rifles and Cartridges	Elmer Keith	1936	3
	The rifle in America	Sharpe, Philip B.	1938	3
	The book of the Garand	Julian S. Hatcher	1948	3
	The big-game rifle	Jack O'Connor	1952	3
	Hatcher's Notebook	Julian S. Hatcher	1957	3
	More single-shot rifles	James J. Grant	1959	3
	Thoughts on the Kentucky rifle in its golden age	Joe Kindig	1960	3
	The plains rifle	Charles E. Hanson	1960	3
	Bolt action rifles	Frank De Haas	1971	3
	Winchester slide-action rifles	Ned Schwing	1992	3
	The AK-47 and AK-74 Kalashnikov rifles and their variations	Joe Poyer	2004	3
	Ak-47	Michael Hodges	2007	3
	Barrett Rifle	Chris McNab	2016	3
	Anti-Tank Rifle	Steve J. Zaloga	2018	3
	Rifles and rifle shooting	Askins, Charles	1912	2
	United States rifles and machine guns	Fred Herbert Colvin	1917	2
	U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1903	United States Department of War	1940	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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