Finding Firearm Manuals:Places to Scour

It can be hard to find the best places to get your cordite-covered paws on some firearm manuals. However, we though we would look for your benefit to provide you with some advice about the best places to seek reliable manuals within a limited budget. Most of the places we thought were best are online so you’ll surely need access to a computer and modem, but then this article is online as well, so it shouldn’t be a problem for you!

One of the best web sites for the publication of firearms schematics and manuals is WeaponsCombat.com. This online site boasts a wide range of free-to-access weapons manuals as well as advice on the dos and don’ts of home security. There’s also a truckload of other useful and interesting e-books and articles about guns.

A quick check for ‘firearm manuals’ yields some positive results from the really big search engines. One of the most intriguing finds was StevesPages which gives users great free PDF files of a selection of manufacturers’ manuals for weapons including the popular Glock 11. ReloadBench gives a similar service while you have to pay for some things on ArmyMilitaryManuals.

If you’ve got a good computer, you can probably afford the diskspace and try downloading the manuals which can be downloaded in bulk from bit-torrent stores. However, this might not be the best idea as you’ll not be able to inspect the file before downloading and, as with most torrents, you can get corrupted files which often disable your computer.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to wait around for your worn out computer to get the large files, you could hit your public reference library and ask them to request the books from the nearest copyright library. If you are tired of searching and are able to pay, you should contact an armory or a weapons manufacturer as they should be able to provide you with a fresh copy for a concession.

One final site you might try is the best which we saved for last, the ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of guns manuals, the aptly named FirearmsManuals. This site has a live community filled with people trading in and selling old and new manuals, not to mention a range of options that allow you read manuals for free and you can even buy sections of rare manuals so you only pay for what you want and not for the entire thing which might include a lot of padding. This site is surely one of the most effective in the genre and although it may be further down in the search lists, it provides exactly what its domain name suggests.