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Thread: Found a place you get reprints of past manuals and gun books.

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    Found a place you get reprints of past manuals and gun books.

    Thought i would pass this on. Good source for replacing worn manuels.
    https://www.cornellpubs.com/index.php
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    This place also:

    http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/FIREARMS/

    Not all manuals but a fair selection, and they are free to download.

    Free is good right? Well most of the time, my M-I-L came free when I married my wife, that wasn't such a good deal

    Found a manual for my Kimber Government 82 here with instructions on adjusting the trigger. That was good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigAlofPa. View Post
    Thought i would pass this on. Good source for replacing worn manuels.
    https://www.cornellpubs.com/index.php
    I’ve used them before. The reprint was definitely usable but didn’t seem as robust as the current Lyman #4 as far as paper stock goes. Definitely usable and nice to get a reprint though of an earlier Lyman manual.

    Just remember formulations and testing have changed so compare with newer data.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 15meter View Post
    This place also:

    http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/FIREARMS/

    Not all manuals but a fair selection, and they are free to download.

    Free is good right? Well most of the time, my M-I-L came free when I married my wife, that wasn't such a good deal

    Found a manual for my Kimber Government 82 here with instructions on adjusting the trigger. That was good.
    Didn't find anything there I haven't found elsewhere, but they do have some good stuff. Maybe I shouldn't get so many really old weapons. Thanks for posting this one.

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    Good find.
    There are other places to find manuals and other goodies
    The good old Archive org
    https://archive.org/details/firearms...model-82-rifle

    Scribd.. tons of manuals etc.
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/189768753...ernment-Manual


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    I found a couple places: Ebay and Amazon.
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    Caveat Emptor: Do not trust Cavery Grips/American Gripz/Prestige Grips/Stealth Grips from Clayton, NC. He will rip you off.

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    Been using Cornell's for a long time. The have good reprints. Have serveral of their catalog reprints that make a nice addition to my reference docs.

    banger

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    Also:

    http://archive.org/web/web.php

    This page will lead you to archived web pages--old pages or pages that no longer exist. You can find stuff that you thought was long lost when companies/web pages folded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 15meter View Post
    Also:

    http://archive.org/web/web.php

    This page will lead you to archived web pages--old pages or pages that no longer exist. You can find stuff that you thought was long lost when companies/web pages folded.

    A lot of the old books from the 1920's and earlier are there, too. I've gotten a lot of my machining stuff, and also some good stuff on guns and ammo.

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    I found Cornell's though ebay. But ordering direct no sales tax.
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    15meter that link was very handy, thank you sir!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GhostHawk View Post
    15meter that link was very handy, thank you sir!
    Which one? I posted two, curious which one you found helpful.

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    Re-found this sticky while searching for something else:

    http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ne-gun-manuals

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    By gosh this is a useful thread. Thanks.
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    My book came yesterday. It's nice. Im happy.
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    I use Cornell to get the manuals for the fact of the information.it dose not matter to me if it is reprint. Now I got all the Lyman Cast Books ,I am just short of 1 to have all the shotgun manual of Lyman. I am not in the rush to find one for now .
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