When you have some spare time with nothing to do, try to find a Used Book Store in your area.
Maybe it's because I live in a big city but I've found several of these stores within 5 miles from my home and I often stop in just to see what they have.
Of course they have a lot of books I have no interest in but they also often have some old books about muzzle loading on the shelf and some of them are quite cheap.
Take for instance, "Shooter's Bible BLACK POWDER GUIDE", a paper back , a 8" X 10" soft-backed book that deals with owning, shooting, building, and guns available back when it was written back in 1969.
Another book to look for is "BLACK POWDER GUN DIGEST" A 8" x 11" soft-backed book that not only deals with all types of muzzleloading shooting but has a great section showing the guns and prices back in 1970.
If your real lucky you might find a 1st or 2nd edition of the LYMAN BLACK POWDER HANDBOOK AND LOADING MANUAL. Not only does this book have hundreds of charts showing various powder and ball loads and their velocities but over half of the book is dedicated to write-ups about shooting and caring for your muzzleloaders and cap & ball pistols.
All of these paper-back books are usually for sale at really cheap prices.
These book stores often have more expensive hard bound books like Robert's "MUZZLE-LOADING CAP LOCK RIFLE", Kauffman's "PENNSYLVANIA KENTUCKY RIFLE", Dillin's "The Kentucky Rifle", Peterson's "Arms and Armor in Colonial America", and occasionally some of the rarer books like Kindig's "THOUGHTS ON THE KENTUCKY RIFLE IN ITS GOLDEN AGE" (although that one is usually as expensive or more so than buying a new copy from Kindig's wife).
The neat thing about all of these books is, loading, shooting and caring for muzzleloaders hasn't changed much in the last 200 years so the information in them is still useful.
Of course if you've got the time and money, these stores often have a lot of good books covering history from the cave man thru modern times.
If you have a Used Book Store in your area, take a half hour or so and go check them out.
Maybe it's because I live in a big city but I've found several of these stores within 5 miles from my home and I often stop in just to see what they have.
Of course they have a lot of books I have no interest in but they also often have some old books about muzzle loading on the shelf and some of them are quite cheap.
Take for instance, "Shooter's Bible BLACK POWDER GUIDE", a paper back , a 8" X 10" soft-backed book that deals with owning, shooting, building, and guns available back when it was written back in 1969.
Another book to look for is "BLACK POWDER GUN DIGEST" A 8" x 11" soft-backed book that not only deals with all types of muzzleloading shooting but has a great section showing the guns and prices back in 1970.
If your real lucky you might find a 1st or 2nd edition of the LYMAN BLACK POWDER HANDBOOK AND LOADING MANUAL. Not only does this book have hundreds of charts showing various powder and ball loads and their velocities but over half of the book is dedicated to write-ups about shooting and caring for your muzzleloaders and cap & ball pistols.
All of these paper-back books are usually for sale at really cheap prices.
These book stores often have more expensive hard bound books like Robert's "MUZZLE-LOADING CAP LOCK RIFLE", Kauffman's "PENNSYLVANIA KENTUCKY RIFLE", Dillin's "The Kentucky Rifle", Peterson's "Arms and Armor in Colonial America", and occasionally some of the rarer books like Kindig's "THOUGHTS ON THE KENTUCKY RIFLE IN ITS GOLDEN AGE" (although that one is usually as expensive or more so than buying a new copy from Kindig's wife).
The neat thing about all of these books is, loading, shooting and caring for muzzleloaders hasn't changed much in the last 200 years so the information in them is still useful.
Of course if you've got the time and money, these stores often have a lot of good books covering history from the cave man thru modern times.
If you have a Used Book Store in your area, take a half hour or so and go check them out.
Mostly casual fiction we'll never re-read and duplicates picked up over time. They were mostly donated to the local Senior Center and various old folks homes where the residents have limited funds. The places are always glad to get them.
