Rick Hacker 
50 Famous Firearms You’ve Got to Own 
Rick Hacker’s Bucket List of Guns

The Greatest Guns Ever

50 Famous Firearms You’ve Got to Own reveals shooting guru Richard Hacker’s favorite guns and provides the ultimate wish list for every firearms enthusiast in America. After almost 40 years of shooting, researching and writing about guns, Hacker has narrowed down his must-have fi rearms list in this one-of-a kind guide.

This book features:

• 50 of the world’s best and most popular guns


• Stunning full-color photography of these breath-taking firearms


• Fascinating and little-known historical and performance information on classic guns


• Practical knowledge on popular, shootable guns you can buy


• And much, much more!

Whether you’re looking to start a bucket-list gun collection or just enjoy reading about great all-time firearms, this book details 50 hall-of-fame guns in informative, entertaining fashion. It’s an unparalleled buyer’s guide for enthusiastic shooters and collectors.

About the author

Mr. Rick Hacker began writing for Guns & Ammo in 1976 (personally recruited by the late Robert ‘Pete’ Petersen); in 1979 began writing for American Rifleman, and wrote for Gun Digest during the tenure of Ken Warner. Today, several decades later, he still writes for those magazines and is Field Editor for American Rifleman, Shooting Illustrated, Handguns, and Rifle Shooter magazines. He also co-authors the ‘I Have This Old Gun’ column for American Rifleman, and writes the monthly ‘The Classics’ column for Shooting Illustrated and the bi-monthly ‘Rifles West’ column for Rifle Shooter magazine. In addition, his feature articles for the various gun magazines listed above cover all facets of historical and practical firearms products and techniques, with an emphasis on 19th and early 20th century firearms.