I'm now deep into my first reading of Earth Abides and am fascinated.
For an entertaining take on weapons and tactics in a post-apocalypse scenario, I liked Robert Edmond Alter's Path To Savagery. An interesting treatment of a single-shot rifle as a perfect foraging and survival tool can be found in Oliver Lange's Vandenburg, also later published with another title that now escapes my CRS. No Blade of Grass (UK, author lost in my CRS) has a gunsmith/gunshop owner as a character but no real gunsmithing interest per se.
Regards, Joe
