Gun Digest collectors?? - The Firearms Forum

LetMGrow · 01-30-2010, 10:16 AM

I am new here and am wondering if anyone on here collects "Gun Digest " books. I have the complete collection of books from 1944 to 2010. I display these proudly.
Anyone else collect these?
Lynn

jondar · 01-30-2010, 04:16 PM

I have a few Digests, but don't collect them. However; I do collect old American Rifleman magazines and have some back to the 1940's. People who read the AR's today don't realize how much better they were before the 1968 Gun law came into being. I find them at thrift stores, church basement sales, used book stores and other places.

wpage · 01-30-2010, 05:10 PM

They are a excellent source of data. It would be interesting to look at the 40's vs the new stuff. I have one or 2 issues and they do come in handy...

Alpo · 01-30-2010, 08:31 PM

I'm trying to get the entire set, but not as a "collection". They are good reference material, and the ones I have I don't display, but instead have then on my library shelves, along with Hatcher's Notebook and the Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson, and Smith's Small Arms of the World, and things of that nature.

LetMGrow · 01-31-2010, 08:08 AM

I have 40 or more Gun Digests that aren't part of the display collection.
These are duplicates I aquired when I bought several at a time to get good copies. Often I would replace one I already had with another in better condition. My collection is nearly pristine.
I have an original 1944 and a reprint 1944 both in good shape as well as many other older books.
Somewhere I have a list.
Frankly some of these I paid a lot of money for. You kinda get hooked on something like this.

hogger129 · 01-31-2010, 03:50 PM

I have two 1911 ones that I'm borrowing from one of my friends at work

01-30-2010, 10:16 AM	#1
LetMGrow Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Northern NY Posts: 15	Gun Digest collectors?? I am new here and am wondering if anyone on here collects "Gun Digest " books. I have the complete collection of books from 1944 to 2010. I display these proudly. Anyone else collect these? Lynn __________________ If you want to get something out of something, you must put something into it. Member QDMA NWTF NRA -->

01-30-2010, 04:16 PM	#2
jondar V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 461	Re: Gun Digest collectors?? I have a few Digests, but don't collect them. However; I do collect old American Rifleman magazines and have some back to the 1940's. People who read the AR's today don't realize how much better they were before the 1968 Gun law came into being. I find them at thrift stores, church basement sales, used book stores and other places.

01-30-2010, 05:10 PM	#3
wpage Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,471	Re: Gun Digest collectors?? They are a excellent source of data. It would be interesting to look at the 40's vs the new stuff. I have one or 2 issues and they do come in handy...

01-30-2010, 08:31 PM	#4
Alpo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Florida Posts: 8,772	Re: Gun Digest collectors?? I'm trying to get the entire set, but not as a "collection". They are good reference material, and the ones I have I don't display, but instead have then on my library shelves, along with Hatcher's Notebook and the Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson, and Smith's Small Arms of the World, and things of that nature. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with catsup - George of Lod, Year of Our Lord 297 I always take precautions. Beware the Evil Bullet Fairies.

01-31-2010, 08:08 AM	#5
LetMGrow Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Northern NY Posts: 15	Re: Gun Digest collectors?? I have 40 or more Gun Digests that aren't part of the display collection. These are duplicates I aquired when I bought several at a time to get good copies. Often I would replace one I already had with another in better condition. My collection is nearly pristine. I have an original 1944 and a reprint 1944 both in good shape as well as many other older books. Somewhere I have a list. Frankly some of these I paid a lot of money for. You kinda get hooked on something like this. __________________ If you want to get something out of something, you must put something into it. Member QDMA NWTF NRA

01-31-2010, 03:50 PM	#6
hogger129 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4,078	Re: Gun Digest collectors?? I have two 1911 ones that I'm borrowing from one of my friends at work __________________ Samuel Adams once said, "among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."