Competition Shooting Books

A well written book on the subject of shotgunning. I would recomend it to anyone.

This is an awesome book for inexperienced shooters that want to learn a few things about shotgunning. It is probably the most useful out of a handful of shotgun books I have bought.

Blakeley's book covers a lot of shooting theory and information along with great stories that were entertaining and helped to demonstrate to me much of the theory he describes. He also punches holes through some common myths that every shooter (hunter and sporting) could do very well without. All in all, a very good reference book.

In this excellent book Peter Blakeley presents a wealth of interesting information on shotgun shooting theory and practice. The book is geared to those who want to hit targets more consistently, and understand the how and why of it. The book has good tips on targets in sporting clays and skeet. In addition, there is much on bird hunting.

Advanced Gundog Training puts the polish on the great results you can achieve from Mr Deeley's "Working Gundogs". The "Advanced" book picks up where "Working Gundogs" left off. It's easy to read and is full of more common sense exercises and information. While this book is more useful to the gundog owner, it still has much that can be of great benefit to a pet dog owner.

For Handloading for High Power and Service Rifle Competition this is an awesome book. Not to say other handloades can't use it, all of them will. But it isn't based on shooting from a sandbagged rifle. It will entertain you also. Glen has a great way with the English language. I read it; took notes the whole way through, and couldn't put it down. I am now an expert handloader...Ha Ha. Seriously though, if you like handloading and participate in Service Rifle or High Power then you need this book.

This book provides new, novice and moderately experienced shooters with a wealth of information regarding the sport of High Power Shooting. The book is very well organized, layed-out and written very well. Persons considering the sport and novices will greatly appreciate the basics that are presented and are easily identified. Additionally, lots and lots of details provide tips and suggestions for experienced shooters.

This piece looks at everything and is great for the beginner. It is full of pearls for the advanced shooter giving insight that you may not have had before.

If you are looking to start high powered rifle shooting this is where you should start. I visited different forums and asked via e-mail to numerous people. I was recommended this book by most of them and they were right. This covers how you get started to techniques and other advanced stuff as well.
However, this book is recommended for beginners to intermediate users because they will benefit the most from the content of this book.

I'm new to the sport of Highpower Rifle competition. In fact, I've yet to shoot in a match as I've only gotten truly interested in it a couple of weeks ago when my best friend started to get into the sport. I got this book from amazon and poured through it the past few days.

This is the first and only book I've looked at so far regarding this sport. Overall the book is very informative. It answered a lot of questions I had and opened my eyes about the intricacies of the sport. It helped me to decide that I wanted to get into it. I will get into the arena and participate in what I consider the most intriging sport on the planet.

Though a book full of wisdom and must-knows, it is also somewhat dated. The classifications have changed and there is a growing tendency to use Service Rifles in .223 Rem chambering instead of the .308 or .30-06.

I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to participate in this sport.

This book was written by one of the most famous and successful Soviet shooting coaches and is geared only towards winning the Olympic shooting events. If you want to win at Olympic Rapid Fire pistol, Free Pistol, air pistol/rifle, or Smallbore Rifle, this is THE BOOK to buy. On the other hand, if you are into IPSC, IDPA, Pins, Action Pistol, Cowboy, SASS, Steel, or PPC, then this is probably not the book to buy, though some of the principles will apply. Bullseye shooters will benefit, but those handgunners shooting most of the American sports will be disappointed. Rifle shooters of most disciplines will find this book very useful, and the book is evenly divided between rifle and pistol shooting. The whole focus is on a person who already knows the basics of breathing, trigger control, stance, etc., and wants to hone his physical and mental skills to perfection. At this level, the mental conditioning is nearly equal to the physical requirements. Time tested (and proven) methods of rhythmic breathing, stances that allow for maximum muscle relaxation, eye exercises, and many other esoteric techniques are used. This being said, I used the techniques, practiced 1500 rounds a week for 6 months, and ended up winning a Bronze Medal at the '91 European Action Pistol Championship match in Heidelberg, Germany. So, the book has some applications for all shooters, but is geared totally toward Olympic events. If you are not a national or world class competitor, and don't aspire to be, the book is probably not worth the price. If you are, it probably is. Good luck and DVC.

This book is a complete waste of time!...Well not unless you're a med student reviewing for your finals. This book does not give any tips on modern or contemporary competition shooting other than the obvious such as the importance of maintaining balance, breathing, etc. This book is very very slow paced and all explanations and discussions are deeply medical in nature. I would strongly advise the readers to have a doctor on stand by for consultation on the medical terms used EXCESSIVELY in this book.

Last three words: NOT WORTH IT!

My expectations were high due to the very good reviews I had read. The book has sections on ballistics, anatomy and statics of human body, rifle and pistol shooting positions, aiming, breathing, releasing the trigger, specific types of competitive shooting events.

I found the background sections (anatomy etc.) quite interesting in the area where I did not know much (statics of human body) but weak when I had a reasonable understanding of the topic (ballistics). I was very much looking forward to the detailed analysis of the actual shooting action (i.e. position, sequencing and problem analysis). I was not disappointed for the aiming, breathing and trigger sections. The positions, however, were quite dated, and in particular the pistol positions were all single handed! Of course, the whole section on specific events is missing some modern events as well.

On the whole the book is highly analytical but the fact that it is quite dated greatly decreases its usefulness. I would not recommend it for a pistol shooter looking to improve his/ her technique due to the lack of even a discussion of double-handed holds.

This book is very good,it shows that shooting isn't as simple as many people think. From biomechanics to practical shooting, the book is excelent, and everything is explained in a very detailed but very simple and understandble way. The only flaw I've encountered in this book is it's age, and many things described in this book are already obsolete. I am a rookie shooter, with only 2 months of experience, and I found this book extremely useful, my results are rising very quickly thanks to many techniques shown in this book. I think it is a very good aquisition.

You are probably not an educated shooter if you haven't read this book. The chapters on biomechanics, vision, and technique feature some of the best information available for shooters. The author devotes nearly 40 pages to the chapter "aiming" and 35 pages to "releasing the trigger." In a field that has been inundated with bad science, fallacious reasoning, and dubious assumptions, COMPETITIVE SHOOTING is a breath of fresh air. A little dry and "textbookish," but the information content is incredible.

Taking up archery after a too-long hiatus, I needed a source of information for all of the new technology that has come on the market in recent years. The knowledge that I gained from this book allowed me to select the compound bow that was right for me, along with the accessories that made shooting the bow a pleasure.

An excellent introductory book but if you have been shooting for some time, you might find it too elementary. Seventy-eight pages of this book is a printed copy of the NAA or NFAA constitution and by-laws which are useless if you do not shoot in USA and also can be lifted off the internet. That said, Larry Wise is Larry Wise and he gives pieces of priceless advice for beginners

The book Bow & Arrow is an excellent book for all levels of archers. It has a large variety of step-by-step photographs emphasizing the key skills of the sport. It also covers the equipment, techniques, and rules for all kinds of types of archery competition rounds. Practice drills are shown step-by-step to help one learn quickly. It has many sections on choosing a bow to fit you, selecting and assembling arrows, adjusting arrow rests, installing accessory equipment, safety rules, form basics, bow tuning, and target, field, and unmarked-distance archery. Many pictures and diagrams help explain the material and its procedures. All the material is explained and is very simple to understand for even the archery illiterate.

very good book! Only thing missing is how to string a recurve

Bow and Arrow is one of the best Archery tech manuals I have read. Begineers wanting to know more about the technical side of the recurve or compound should pick up this book. Lots of good info on arrow setup and tuning too. Nice!!!

If you really want to get into bench shooting then get this book. If you want to know about accurizing rifles, better shooting techniques and sighting then forget about it. I think the 'hunting' part was thrown in to get this book sold at Wal-Mart.

For every item I found useful I had to wade through page after page of competitive bench jargon. For instance the chapter on shooting technique was mostly about selecting a rest and punching '0.xx' inch groups by moving the sandbag under the stock. Not to mention that every picture in this book is of some competitive shooter with a rifle and most seem to be from the 1980's.

Its like sitting next to an old man who wont stop telling you old war stories or keeps nagging on about how much better it was "back in the day"... But if you listen hard enough and dont get bored with the flashbacks, you can pick out bits and pieces of usefull information. Worth buying if under $6.

Glenn Newick has written an excellent book about the chase for shooting performance; contesting the wind, fighting the mirage, and stepping up with the big boys in search of tighter and tighter groups. In a conversational tone, with many reflections of the sport of benchrest shooting, some remarkable people, and where it is going from here; Glenn has delivered an exciting and informative read. Whether you are interested in NBRSA, or just desire to sight a rifle in with two shots fired, this is the book to buy. Specialized toward the benchrest crowd, this is a fascinating book from cover to cover.

The title of the book is THE ULTIMATE IN RIFLE ACCURACY: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EQUIPMENT AND YOURSELF. Nowhere on the front or back cover, or inside flaps, is the reader told that the book is about benchrest shooting, except that the back cover indicates that the author is a champion in benchrest shooting. Yet the book is almost exclusively on benchrest shooting. The title page is even more misleading with the subtitle, "A handbook for those who seek the ultimate in rifle accuracy; whether it be for competition, testing, or hunting."

I picked up this book thinking that it would help me in my rifle shooting. I thought it would tell me how to hold the rifle in different positions like standing, sitting or prone. Of course, it only addresses bench rest. I expected the author to explain what features that contribute to accuracy to look for in a rifle, but he talks primarily about specific manufacturers and parts instead of what to look for in components. In a field where many components are made by small one-man shops, this information can become very dated. At one point, the author uses this forum to complain of a certain manufacturer, and used language that was a bit on the coarse side for a non-fiction technical book.

Chapters include Safety, History, Rifle, the 6PPC, Bullets, the Bench, Wind Shooting, Flags, and different categories of benchrest matches, like Light Varmint, Heavy Varmint and Unlimited/Heavy. I really can't tell the History chapter from the rest of the book, because most of the book seems to be the author telling stories from the history of benchrest shooting. At the end of each chapter, I just felt a hunger for more useful, technical information. In fact, in a couple of places, the author refers the reader to THE ACCURATE RIFLE by Warren Page for more detailed information. It seems that this was book I should have purchased instead! A chapter on "Benchrest Techniques for Hunting Rifles" is thrown in, but seems to be a half-hearted attempt at making the book applicable to a more general audience. (I can hear the publisher, "This book is all on benchrest shooting. Add a chapter on hunting so we can sell it to a broader audience.") Note that there is an entire chapter on the 6mm PPC cartridge. If you're not using it, you're a nobody, and you're not going to get any help here.

The benchrest glossary in the back was pretty good, and in fact, if the reader reads it first, he has a better chance of following the remainder of the book. It is hard to tell who the intended audience is. Obviously, it is solely for someone with an interest in benchrest shooting, but to an experienced benchrest shooter, it is too basic. To someone with no previous knowledge of benchrest shooting, it skips some basics. (After a few chapters, I begin to get the impression that benchrest shooting only measures group size, rather than calculate a target score as with other type of shooting competitions, but that is never explicitly stated. I am also still puzzled as to the purpose of that square on the targets.)

Although the book has photos (probably more than half are of prominent benchrest competitors either shooting or holding awards or targets), it could use more drawings to explain the technical points. It is hard to describe reloading with just words.

I conclude that the book is for a novice who has had an introduction to benchrest shooting, and wants a cursory overview of the sport. With a few changes, and an appropriate title, this book might be a good one. For example, change the title to "Introduction to Benchrest Shooting," delete the "hunting" chapter, and add a chapter explaining the basics of the sport, such as the GOAL. With changes like this it wouldn't lead the wrong audience to purchase it, and would be more valuable to the correct audience.

"The Ultimate in Rifle Accuracy" by Glenn Newick ISBN:0-88317-159-7

Friends, I just read a great book on the above mentioned title. It is short, and plumb full of tips, advice and teaching on getting the most accuracy out of your rifle. The author writes primarily of Benchrest type shooting and the 6PPC cartridge, but he does give advice about hunting rifles, calibers too. He has a whole chapter on getting the most out of your hunting rifle with many explanations of why shots go wrong. There is a detailed section on how to reload rifle rounds for maximum accuracy, in a most straight forward way. One of the tips I liked the most is that of never resting your front sling attachment point on the rest when you shoot. As the recoil moves the first 2/10 inch before the bullet leaves the barrel, you have an upward jerk that moves the shot off course. This was priceless. He also said that if you use any kind of a wind flag, be it a ribbon your groups will decrease by 25%. Just like those tips there are several throughout a very easy to read book. Take this from a man (Glenn Newick, not me) that can put 5 shots into the size of a dime at 200 yards, and you know you can come away with something. I learned about this book by reading a Precision Shooting Magazine compilation of articles. It referred to this book so many times I knew they were onto something. It is a short read and I guarantee you will come away with something that will make you a better rifle shoot. -Migs