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| | Hatcher's notebook (The firearms classics library) |  | Author: Julian S Hatcher
Publisher: Published for the National Rifle Association by Odysseus Editions
Category: Book
Buy New: $68.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 2642977
Pages: 488
ASIN: B0006FABCQ
Publication Date: 1996
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Condition: Leather bound hardcover book in NEW unread condition. The shrinkwrap was removed to get detail of the book off the title page. Gold gild pages. Silk ribbon. Most orders shipped from IL. USA within 24 hours.
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Product Description
Starting with the '03 Springfield and '17 Enfield, this authoritative guide describes the development of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, explaining how they work, barrels and experiments with obstructions, strengths and weaknesses of military rifles, receiver steels and heat treatment, headspace, recoil problems, gunpowder, corrosion, triggers, and the Pederson Device. It also covers noted gun makers, tips to match ammunition, interior and exterior ballistics, velocity variation, measuring methods, weights, overloads, and ranges. Invaluable information for shooters, gunsmiiths, collectors, ballisticians, and hunters.
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 A unique resource in technology and history December 1, 2008
Hatcher's career in U.S. Army Ordinance spanned a critical period in small arms development, from the U.S. Army's first stumbling initiatives with machine guns before WW I, product safty and ballistic issues with the 1903 Springfield rifle, to the era of the M1 Garand in the 1940's. Fortunately for all of us, Hatcher was a competent writer and possessed a sophisticated mind, and this is very much reflected in this book. The Notebook is essentially a series of articles focused on specific topics, arranged in a roughly choronlogical fashion, and was clearly written with the general reader in mind as well as the firearms or technology specialist. The sections on the investigation of the failures of low number 1903 Springfield receivers (in which Hatcher was a major principle) and post WW I ballistics issues with the 30-06 cartridge themselves make the book worth reading. Ballistics, metallurgy, and firearms engineering have definitely moved on from the period represented by this book (the most recent information is on the rifle tests of the 1950s that led to the adoption of the M14 rifle in 1957) but there is none the less an impressive historical value to this book, as well as a certain kind of timeless insight into issues of technology and institutional policy making. This book definitely belongs on the bookshelf along with Hatcher's other book, "Hatcher's Book of the Garand", which is an equally sophisticated and well-informed study of the U.S. Army's ultimately successful effort to reequip with a self-loading rifle during the interwar years.
Essential Reading for Firearms Enthusiasts July 27, 2008
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Long before "Myth Busters" Julian S. Hatcher tested such issues as whether a bullet fired vertically will cause serious harm on its descent to earth. [.45 caliber bullets may hurt but won't cause serious injury. On the other hand a .30'06 rifle bullet can be lethal on descent due to its greater mass and greater G1 (that's G1 not GI) ballistic coefficient.] He tested the danger involved in an uncontained cartridge firing. He covers such subjects as: the developmental history of ballistic coefficients for projectiles and how to calculate bullet velocity at any range based on muzzle velocity and the bullets G1 ballistic coefficient; characteristics of burning gunpowder and its attendant pressure curves in the barrel; rotation rate of the bullet due to rifling; dangers involved in the storage of large amounts of gun powder and the massive damage capability of improperly stored gunpowder. This is just one of a myriad of subjects Hatcher covers. In some cases his information has been superseded due to analyses made possible by technological improvements in testing. In other cases his treatment of the subject matter is still relevant today. In any case, it reveals a man with phenomenal expertise in firearms made possible by his involvement in firearms development throughout his career with the US Army's Ordnance Department and his participation in competitive shooting events. It's fascinating reading and a classic treatise on firearms that is a must-have for understanding characteristics of firearms subject matter.
 Hatcher's notebook April 21, 2008
One of about a half a dozen MUST have books if you have firearms and hand load for them.
Steve Adams
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A Library Must Have November 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
the data in this book in fundamentally timeless. Yes, some deals with specific firearms and/or circumstances, but even there, many lessons for GENERAL firearms use are still lurking.
This is one of the most valuable reference manuals in my library and has been read many times over during the years.
Even more important is EW Mann's "The Bullet's Flight" and it was written at the turn of the century! Some types of knowledge don't "wear out."
An absolute bible of information August 13, 2007
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BUT... you can't be scared off by technical stuff. Hatcher has a way of explaining it for the layman, but most of the book is just insights into firearms technology as seen by an insider. Great read. Buy it before any other gun book. May I also suggest Hatcher's other masterpiece, Book of the Garand.
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