Can you recommend an informative, comprehensive and well written text book on air rifle shooting?

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Really enjoying this forum, learning a lot. That said, i generally enjoy reading printed text. For some reason i incorporate the data/information better in tactile print.

I would very much appreciate your suggestions regarding a current informative, comprehensive and well written text book on air rifle shooting. Looking for the whole gamut of information from set up, maintenance, platform optimization....not just shooting technique per se. I only shoot target/paper so ideally a text that isn't all that directed toward hunting,

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Just FW(ever)IW- Much as I enjoy writing, I have (and sometimes still do) considered such a project. However, experience proves beyond all doubt there are too many reasons not to do it.

1) I've had to write-off the five books I've written and self-published on the subjects as 'labors of love' 🥰. Unfortunately, in this case love doesn't pay the bills. In fact, it doesn't even pay minimum wage for the (incalculable) amounts of labor invested. 🥵
2) Consequently nowadays I get my writing fixes by posting free advice on this forum, on an 'as needed' basis. In this case 'as needed' refers to both the writer, and the (all two) readers.
3) Relating to number 2 above, was I accounting for my time/return on investment(s), I'm way ahead writing for free, than losing money 'for profit'. :ROFLMAO:
4) Having long looked forward to enjoying more trigger-time in retirement, now more than a decade into it, I (still) can't figure out how that didn't/hasn't happened. :unsure:
5) But being the world's most vehement tencho-grouch, I take some gratification in blaming #4 on technology. Despite avoiding as much technology as humanly possible in 2025, seems like I spend most of my retirement fighting and outsmarting technology to get anything/everything done. 🤬
6) But understanding the human need for conflict, perhaps technology is a better target for my ire than fellow humans.
7) That being likely, believe it or not I'm making an honest effort to channel my crotchety-old-geezerness toward hardware/software, rather than (continue) taking it out on folks.
8) Again FW(ever)IW, answers to (probably) the majority of questions posed on this forum can be found by employing the 'search' gizmo by looking for key words relating to the/any given question, and looking for answers by my screen name.
9) Hence, what I've done is shift the time and labor onus to the reader/inquisitor.
10) The way I figure it, if that's too much to ask of an inquisitor they deserve the barrage of responses they get.
11) All two of my readers know what's coming now- "Our amps go to eleven". :ROFLMAO:

OOPS... correction-

12) Assuming what I've occasionally read is true, that some people HATE emojis, see numbers 6 & 7 above.

P.S.- HAPPY SHOOTING, Y'ALL!

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thanks for doing what you do....it is very much appreciated.

i've penned several efforts and absolutely understand that alll too often from a cost benefit analysis the pendulum swings in an unfavorable direction.

likely i'm much too old fashioned and stuck in the past. still have a fondness for egg creams and the local soda fountain.

I cherish the books and texts i've learned from and it pains me when they are gone.

I'm not sure exactly why but so many books and texts bring me joy, if only just to handle them, look at them on my shelf, read them( sometimes over and over). Sharing them with family and friends brings yet another source of joy and disappointment as some tend to disappear into the ether...
 
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student said:
I'm not sure exactly why but so many books and texts bring me joy, if only just to handle them, look at them on my shelf, read them( sometimes over and over). Sharing them with family and friends brings yet another source of joy and disappointment as some tend to disappear into the ether...
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The most gratifying and flattering feedback I've gotten on my books were "Started reading your book last night in bed, and couldn't stop till I'd read the whole thing", and "I've read it six times already; my wife thinks I'm crazy".

Unfortunately my books only scratch the surfaces of the whole gamut. Writing another that covers the whole gamut would take the rest of my life... then only if live longer than any human in history. Maybe I'll start if after finishing my perpetual motion machine, bringing about world peace, and figuring out what makes women tick. :unsure:
 
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