You can learn a lot of firearms skills, survival skills, and other useful information from the Internet, but what if the Internet goes down, or you just want a hard copy of all that information because you’re an old-fashioned and practical kind of person? T.Rex Arms is looking to fill that need with a new series of military-issued field manuals that are updated to be more usable.
T.Rex Arms @ TFB:
Note that T.Rex Arms isn’t here to change the content of these classic military field manuals. Instead, they want to simply make them easier to read and learn from, instead of offering the shoddily-scanned-and-printed dreck that so many budget-oriented publishers have sold over the years.
Check out the explanation below, from Isaac Botkin of T.Rex Arms:
It’s a very practical way of looking at the realities of field manuals—yes, doing the typesetting all over again is going to be work, but we’re not talking rocket science here either (as Botkin says, it was not a lot of work, but more than he expected). If the end result is a much more useful book, then it’s well worth paying a bit extra to have that in hand. If you’ve picked up some of these government-issued books at a gun show or army surplus store, you know that they can terrible quality, and T.Rex’s solution sounds like something a lot of customers could use.
Not to mention, they’re still offering links to download these books as PDFs for free in their original and unimproved form. See their entry for the Marine Rifle Squad Handbook here; those links are at the bottom of the page. You can’t accuse them of being out to make a quick buck—they’re only charging for their work of publishing and printing.
Botkin says T.Rex Arms doesn’t want to simply reprint the Ranger Handbook or other commonly-published military manuals. Botkin’s X/Twitter post on September 4 said “T.Rex Arms is a publishing company now. We sell books, and we reprint books. It is a small start, but let us know what we should do next!”. So if there’s a field manual you believe deserves a reprint, let them know via comments on YouTube, or social media. Your suggestion could help them get useful, maybe even life-saving, information out there for readers.
