What's in your Muzzleloading & Black Powder Shooting Library, Books, Magazines, DVD's?

Share them if you got them please. The DVD's, magazines and books need not be totally Black Powder shooting, gunsmithing, building. If there is a good chapter or section that is about muzzleloading guns, or black powder revolvers that will do here for this thread.
Also, if you can't post any pictures, just list what you have.
If you have a favorite, or must read you can mention that as well. As I'm just getting into actually shooting black powder guns, I have a rather large library of books on the Cowboy era from shooting SASS, and having always been a fan of the Victorian era as well. If the moderators feel this post is not for this forum, please feel free to remove. My feelings wont be hurt. I'd just like to see what others on the forum have in their Black Powder libraries. There are surely some great reads out there. I do some gunsmithing on both modern and replica firearms, so I have a lot of books and DVD's on that.
Here are some of mine DVD's:



I also have an excellent armorers DVD from AGI that covers single action army Colts. Since the internal action is the same/very similar for Colt black powder revolvers I mention it here, but did not post a picture. If your interested I can.
Books: Not in any particular order

I just counted, and I have about 90 volumes relating directly to muzzleloaders or accouterments, plus some magazines, videos, and catalogs. I can't really list them all, I'm afraid, though if you want recommendations for a specific subject I'm happy to help.

Elnathan said:

I just counted, and I have about 90 volumes relating directly to muzzleloaders or accouterments, plus some magazines, videos, and catalogs. I can't really list them all, I'm afraid, though if you want recommendations for a specific subject I'm happy to help.

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Your favorite ones of Flintlock Smoothbores and Rifles would be of great interest to me right now. Books and DVD's. I just purchased a Pedersoli Charleville Musket today. It should be here Wednesday or Thursday. I'll try to post some pictures.
Anything on tuning, gunsmithing muzzleloaders. I've had a Euroarms 1861 Springfield for about 10 years now. Just getting into shooting black powder now that I'm retired and life isn't so busy. Thanks for the reply.

I have a copy of Peter Alexander's The Gunsmith of Grenville County, which is okay apart from his rather terrible history chapter, and a collection of articles by John Bivins out of Muzzleblasts. Both are about scratchbuilding rather than tuning, but you might find some of the info useful. The Bivins articles have been collected and published as a book somewhere.

If you are looking for the best books on 18th century American rifles, George Shumway's Rifles of Colonial America (2 volumes) and Joseph Kindig's The Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age are the standard reference works in the field. Both are getting pretty long in the tooth and new research has proven some of their conclusions wrong, but nothing to replace them in terms of breadth and quality has yet been published. Both are pretty pricy but well worth the money. For civilian smoothbores Tom Grinslade's Flintlock Fowlers is great, and for muskets Bill Ahearn's Muskets of the Revolution is a nice overview. Neumann's Battle Weapons of the American Revolution has nice black and white pictures but doesn't have the written background that Ahearn's book has, and Neumann pretty much ignores Spanish guns entirely.

For inexpensive options, you might look at Harold Peterson's books, particularly Arms and Armor of Colonial America and The Great Guns.

Elnathan said:

I have a copy of Peter Alexander's The Gunsmith of Grenville County, which is okay apart from his rather terrible history chapter, and a collection of articles by John Bivins out of Muzzleblasts. Both are about scratchbuilding rather than tuning, but you might find some of the info useful. The Bivins articles have been collected and published as a book somewhere.

If you are looking for the best books on 18th century American rifles, George Shumway's Rifles of Colonial America (2 volumes) and Joseph Kindig's The Kentucky Rifle in Its Golden Age are the standard reference works in the field. Both are getting pretty long in the tooth and new research has proven some of their conclusions wrong, but nothing to replace them in terms of breadth and quality has yet been published. Both are pretty pricy but well worth the money. For civilian smoothbores Tom Grinslade's Flintlock Fowlers is great, and for muskets Bill Ahearn's Muskets of the Revolution is a nice overview. Neumann's Battle Weapons of the American Revolution has nice black and white pictures but doesn't have the written background that Ahearn's book has, and Neumann pretty much ignores Spanish guns entirely.

For inexpensive options, you might look at Harold Peterson's books, particularly Arms and Armor of Colonial America and The Great Guns.

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Awesome! That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for taking the time for the long post. I really appreciate it. I a few old classic out of print books, those are sometimes hard to find, and expensive, but well worth the price if you can find them! Thanks again. Have a great Thanksgiving.

The Holiday, has bumped my delivery date on my Charleville back to Friday. I should have expected that!