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I recommend these books without reservation (get them from Amazon or ABEbooks):
Kuhnhausen - shop manuals. 1911 and Colt, Smith, and Ruger revolvers. Six volumes total.
Whelen - Small Arms Design and Ballistics (2 volumes)
Sharpe - Complete Guide To Handloading
Sharpe - The Rifle In America
Hatcher - Hatcher's Notebook
Hatcher - Textbook of Pistols and Revolvers
Mann - The Bullet's Flight From Powder To Target
Fryxell - From Ingot to Target
Boothroyd - The Handgun
Keith - Sixguns
Keith - Hell I Was There!
Smith - Book of Pistols and Revolvers
Wilson - Textbook of Automatic Pistols
Vickery - Advanced Gunsmithing
Several of these can be found free for download.
Also, the following volumes of Handloader Magazine contain indispensable reliable handgun load data (all available from Amazon):
76, 170, 217, 218, 233, 236, 241, 246, 253, 255, 264, 270
Kuhnhausen - shop manuals. 1911 and Colt, Smith, and Ruger revolvers. Six volumes total.
Whelen - Small Arms Design and Ballistics (2 volumes)
Sharpe - Complete Guide To Handloading
Sharpe - The Rifle In America
Hatcher - Hatcher's Notebook
Hatcher - Textbook of Pistols and Revolvers
Mann - The Bullet's Flight From Powder To Target
Fryxell - From Ingot to Target
Boothroyd - The Handgun
Keith - Sixguns
Keith - Hell I Was There!
Smith - Book of Pistols and Revolvers
Wilson - Textbook of Automatic Pistols
Vickery - Advanced Gunsmithing
Several of these can be found free for download.
Also, the following volumes of Handloader Magazine contain indispensable reliable handgun load data (all available from Amazon):
76, 170, 217, 218, 233, 236, 241, 246, 253, 255, 264, 270