Chipotle Publishing is fundraising for a new Vickers Machine gun book. I grew up shooting a Vickers (and various other expensive things), and my dad still has one. The listed publishing and shipping date will likely just miss his birthday in August, but I am thinking this would be a good Christmas present. Books of this sort are not cheap, and we've both spent real money on gun books in the past. I'm having trouble finding enough information to know if this one is worth the cash though. My big red Springfield 1903 Rifles book was worth the cost because I can use it to look up what's what when I look at buying an 03, or figuring out what I just bought. This one is a different animal though.
Dad was an importer and class 3 dealer until the Clinton ban, and still has a Vickers. He already knows just about everything there is to know about these, so I am wondering if I am doing the equivalent of buying an intro gun cleaning kit for a gun guy. That a rough analogy, but you know what I mean; buying something that seems useful to someone who hasn't been living it for 30 years.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...the-emma-gees/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-the-emma-gees
There's a video on the site that does a good job promoting it, but it's light on information about what's actually in the book. This blurb, taken from the kickstart page, is about all the information I can find on it:
I am specifically looking at the cheap $129 retail edition.Quote:
Love Vickers machine guns? So do we! That's why we are passionate about our new book project: The Vickers Machine Gun: Pride of the Emma Gees. The Vickers machine gun was such an integral part of 20th century history that it is embedded in almost every history book of the two Great Wars. In 1994, historian and machine gunner Dolf L. Goldsmith followed up his history of the Maxim machine gun in The Devil?s Paintbrush?Sir Hiram Maxim?s Gun with the story of the Maxim?s progeny, the Vickers machine gun, titled The Grand Old Lady of No Man?s Land.
Now, a quarter of a century later, Dolf has participated in the upgrading of that massive book with over 270 more pages of new information, color photos and research by himself and three more Vickers historians: Richard Fisher, Robert G. Segel and Dan Shea. The new book will have a grand total of over 840 pages (plus any Stretch Goal additions below, as the goals are reached). This new book by Chipotle Publishing, LLC, is the ultimate collectors' book for Vickers machine gun enthusiasts, historians, collectors and scholars alike!
Any opinions?
