Good gun books used to be hard to find, a situation that a gaggle of good writers are hard at work to remedy. There are, however, some great little gems in gun book collecting and they weren't written yesterday. Consider Bob Nichols' The Secrets of Double Action Shooting written way back in 1950. It is a slim little volume of 152 pages, written by a guy who was an active competitor in several handgun disciplines, as well as a hotshot writer of that time. Much of the book quotes or refers to the work of the great shooters of the period—Askins, Keith, Hatcher, FitzGerald and McGivern. It would be of historical interest for that matter alone, but tracking down a copy for its historical value only would be missing the point. The book is well titled, in that it is the most careful, in-depth examination of the procedures by which a wheelgunner may master the double-action revolver. It is a dying art that needs to be resurrected for use with today's superb new revolvers. There is still great practical value to this great old book.
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