The Hog Blog

A little while before Christmas, in the Jesse’s Hunting and Outdoors Journal, I reviewed a couple of books sent to me by Stoeger Publishing.  Stoeger puts out a pile of great titles for the outdoorsman and shooter from a lot of the experts in their fields. 

They’ve since sent a couple of others, including Peter Fiduccia’s Whitetail Strategies: The Ultimate Guide, (which is still on my shelf to be read).  But the other day a new package arrived.  Not expecting anything I tore it open to find The Official NRA Guide to Firearms Assembly: Rifles and Shotguns.  This book includes blow-up drawings and diagrams with basic instructions for assembly and disassembly of all kinds of rifles and shotguns.  Now I don’t spend a lot of time taking my guns apart, because I tend to get myself in trouble when I get it down to the little springs and sears, but I’m pretty confident that with a little past experience and this book, I could do some pretty intensive maintenance on most of the guns in my safe (I’ll still defer work on the semi-autos to the gunsmith). 

Anyway, it’s a nicely put-together piece of work, and I think it would be really handy for any sportsman to have on the shelf.  You never know when you might need pull that shotgun apart, or replace the trigger assembly in your deer rifle.