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Unsolicited testimonial and book review!!!

If you are a hand loader you owe it to yourself to get this book! John has outdone himself this time..

If you like his well researched no nonsense style of offering up explanations ,advice , and tangible results there is plenty in this book for you.

If you like to dwell on minutae and are not even sure why you do some of it...the answers to ALL of it are in this book! There is even a straightforward chapter on rifling twist that would save a buttload of nasty threads on this forum.

It IS a big book, and it is Barsness at his very best. I just cruised through half a dozen chapters and learned a few new things. Typical JB it is easy reading and thorough in explaining and entertaining.

I may have to buy a second copy just to keep near the throne!!!


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Couldn't agree more.

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An "Amen!" from the back pews.


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I keep my copy adjacent to my desk and ration the amount I read daily: don't want to get through it too Quickly! wink

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That's Ed Zachary what I did! smile


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Another Amen from the peanut gallery. I appreciate that the book is printed in a large format with larger, easier to read typeface.

This is not a book to put in your backpack to take with you on your wilderness hunt.

This is a big, heavy book that is worth its weight in gold.
It would make a terrific Christmas present to yourself, or any true rifle loony that you know.


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A great book that I had intended to be my winter's reading but winter has hardly begun and I've completed my first perusal.....

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Originally Posted by HunterJim
I keep my copy adjacent to my desk and ration the amount I read daily: don't want to get through it too Quickly! wink

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I already have the impression that it could be read, and re-read...learning stuff that you missed the first time!

It is 'comprehensive' and covers all gack!

Think I'll keep my copy at the loading bench!


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Had mine spiral bound at Staples. Lies flat and makes the big book easy to navigate.

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Thats a GREAT idea! laugh


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Had my coy of RLN The First Five Years done at same time. Well worth it!

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I'm doing just that now. I finished reading it cover to cover in about 3-4 days (couldn't put it down), now, just like the RLN book, I am constantly going back to it and re-reading sections. Bought one for my dad for a Christmas present, but I couldn't wait till then with my copy!

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Alright already. Y'all convinced me. (Actually I've been meaning to but I hadn't got around to it.) I clipped $32.50 to the radio collar of a whitetail and pointed him in the direction of Montana. I told him John and Eileen would have a treat waiting for him when he got there. smile

Seriously though, I hope those electrons I scrambled in their direction materialize in their inbox.

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Thanks, Tom!

The book seems to have taken on a life of its own. Only a fraction of the "official" reviews have appeared so far, but since we started taking orders in mid-October Eileen hasn't had much time to do very much work on her next cookbook, which was moving right along until then. But there are worse problems to have....


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Ingwe just likes it so much cuz he is mentioned in it a few times lol

And shrapnel and Steve and ....

Someday I am gonna do something stupid enough to be worth a mention like you guys did lol

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Y'all have crashed their server!!!

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I am ahead of all of you, I bought 2 and got the very first copy autographed. The second copy I sold to Travis for $54.00, so I ended up getting mine for free...

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JB's The Book of Gun Gack is very likely the best book written containing the most important information concerning
rifle ammo. If you don't know anything about it, or if you think you know it all, or even if you really do, JB's book will take you to new heights.

It's not a close call!

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Got mine last week, along with Eileen's cook book. Wow...that thing is loaded with tons of info and like ingwe said, it's heavy.

Great reading folks...on both books....you owe it to yourself to order them.



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7x57Steve is right, apparently our website is getting too much traffic: You can look at all the books and other stuff, but not order 'em!

We have our web provider working on it, but in the meantime if you want to order something, either e-mail eileenriflesandrecipes.com or phone 406-521-0273.


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