Jay Cassell - Shooters Bible, 108th Edition: The World?s Bestselling Firearms Reference

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I ts hard to believe, but another year has passed, and here we are, working hard on putting together the 108th edition of the Shooters Bible . The Shooters Bible , which many of you buy every year, has been published continuously since 1925sometimes annually, sometimes bi-annually. It is the go-to reference for thousands and thousands of shooters and firearms collectors. Assembling a new edition is incredibly complicated and labor intensive. Our staff has to check every stat for every firearm, optic, ammo, and piece of reloading equipment. If the specs for something have changed, we need to make the correction.

Prices change all the timewe have to be on top of those as well. And if a gun, or a certain model of gun, goes out of production, we have to take it out of the Shooters Bible and put it into its sister reference, the Gun Traders Guide . The New Product section takes on a life of its own. First we take the previous years New Product section and integrate everything in there into the black and white in-production section. Then our research team starts contacting manufacturers, looking for new products to put in the new New Product section, which is in color. Bob Sadowski, who annually writes the feature highlighting new products, gets involved with this section, as do I.

One reason I attend the annual Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show) every year in Las Vegas is to see who is making what, whats hot, and whats not. Shooter's Bible researcher Lindsey Breuer shooting sporting clays with her Benelli Ultra Light 28-gauge. Shannon Jackson displays Meoptas new riflescope at the SHOT Show earlier this year. Designed for sniper rifles, the Meopta ZD 624x56 RD is a precision long-range riflescope that allows shooters to achieve deadly accurate shot placement at extreme distances. When it all comes together, we double-check everything one last time, then off to the typesetter the monster manuscript and photos go. When everything comes back as page proofs ten days later, our proofreaders get to work, reading every word on every page, comparing back to the original manuscript, making sure no errors have been introduced.

After a few rounds of page proofs, the book then goes off to pressand then we have to wait a number of months, like expectant parents, for our baby to arrive. The Winchester booth at the SHOT Show featured Buffalo Bill Codys very own Model 1873. Here, Editorial Director Jay Cassell holds one of Remingtons special editions. Due to the extreme popularity of two of our Shooter's Bible Guidebooksthe Shooter's Bible Guide to AR-15s , by Doug Howlett, and the Shooter's Bible Guide to Knives , by Roger Eckstinewe have gone back to the authors and asked them to totally revise and update those two books. Both will be out later this year. Both will, in effect, be completely new books, with new features, new product sections, and color photos throughout them both.

Please keep an eye out for them. New Franchi firearms on display. The Remington booth featured some of the new commemorative edition firearms. In other news, there are two huge anniversaries being celebrated this year: Winchester is celebrating its 150th anniversary and Remington Arms its 200th. Founded in 1866 by Oliver Winchester, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company produced ammunition and such iconic firearms as the lever-action 1866, the Model 1873 (the Gun That Won the West), and the Model 1892 lever action, the classic saddle rifle that became the favorite of all western-film makers. To commemorate its anniversary, Winchester has come out with commemorative Model 1866s, 1873s, 1885s, 1886s, 1892s, 1894s, 1895s, and 71s, all classics with their own special heritage.

Also celebrating a major anniversary this year is Remington Arms. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, as E. Remington and Sons, Remington is Americas oldest gun company. It is the only US company that produces both firearms and ammunition domestically and is the largest US producer of shotguns and rifles. Remington has also developed or adopted more cartridges than any other gun maker or ammunition manufacturer in the world. To commemorate its bicentennial, Remington is coming out with special anniversary editions of some of its most popular gunsthe Model R1, 700, 7600, 870, and 1100all offered in C grade to the very highest level, which will be hand engraved and gold inlaid with hand-carved stocks featuring various patterns.