{"id":5326,"date":"2011-12-30T05:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/30\/video-book-review-textbook-of-automatic-pistols\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:38:08","slug":"video-book-review-textbook-of-automatic-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/30\/video-book-review-textbook-of-automatic-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ebvDFTlwdKM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you&#8217;ll find a real gem in those piles &#8211; and this book is one of the gems. Written by R.K. Wilson and published in 1943, the Textbook of Automatic Pistols gives a deeply technical explanation of all the very early automatic pistol designs, including a bunch of very unusual ones virtually never seen these days. It also covers the design and ballistics of the cartridges used by these guns &#8211; cartridges like the .45 Mars, .35 S&#038;W (yeah, the .35), and 5mm Clement. It&#8217;s an absolute wealth of information that you can&#8217;t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like a copy, you have three options. One is to keep a lookout for one at gun shows &#8211; you may find it sooner or later. Two is to go online and find a copy of the original printing and pay $100 or so. Three is to go to Amazon and get a copy of the 1990 leather-bound reprint by Wolfe Publishing for a paltry 25 or 30 bucks (see link below). You&#8217;ll have to go through a 3rd party dealer to find it (Amazon doesn&#8217;t stock it themselves), but for that price I think it&#8217;s a screaming deal and worth the extra effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0013K8T2M\/ref=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0013K8T2M\/ref=<\/a>as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=forgoweapo-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0013K8T2M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you&#8217;ll find a real gem in those piles &#8211; and this book is one of the gems. Written by R.K. Wilson and published in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/30\/video-book-review-textbook-of-automatic-pistols\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7538,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/7538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}