Product Description

The only illustrated firearms pricing and identification guide of this magnitude.

Standard Catalog of Firearms is undoubtedly the preferred desk reference to antique, vintage and modern firearms from around the world. With this super-sized firearms guide you gain access to more than 25,000 listings of firearms manufactured between 1838 and mid-2007. With bonus market reports and tips on how to find collectible firearms in the front, and an extensive reference section in the back, you'll quickly discover the bulk of this mammoth guide includes 7,500+ detailed photos and listings with realistic condition grade data, completely updated collector values, "sleepers" which identify models poised for a leap in value. Plus, new this edition, "value tracker" tables with actual, real-life auction results for specific model of guns.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30268 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1504 pages

About the Author
Dan Shideler is a collectible firearms columnist and contributing editor to Gun Digest: The Magazine and Military Trader magazines. He’s edited several editions of Modern Gun Values and both editions of The Official Gun Digest Book of Guns & Prices.

Customer Reviews

2008 guide
I have the 2000 and 2002 editions of this guide and was very impressed, but the the 2008 is a disappointment. The picture quality is very poor and the newspaper type paper and print are very displeasing.

2008 Standard Catalog of Firearms:
You need this for a good price list that is current with todays market on Firearms. 2007 book has about the same prices but a few dollars difference, both books are very good in pricing your weapons.

usefull but not the best
SCF is a very useful reference book. One thing really going for is the great pix of thousands of different weapons (not all photo's are correct though). However the values are outdated and have not been changed for at least 2 years and I think even more. The industry standard is The Blue Book of Gun Values by S.P. Fjestad; but Blue Book does not have photo's. If you are interested in firearms I recommend that you get Standard Catalog of Firearms once every 5 years and Fjestad's Blue Book every year. The 2 work well together.

Zed Child