Ammunition

Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Munitions Handlers.

This field manual provides ready reference and guidance for units and soldiers that handle munitions items. It is not a comprehensive manual, but it does provide useful data on important points of munitions service support. Also, it is a training tool for munitions units and soldiers. Focus is on tactics, techniques, and procedures used by soldiers handling munitions. The information and guidance contained herein will help them to safely receive, ship, store, handle, maintain, and issue munitions. The manual provides information on processing unit turn–ins, destroying unserviceable munitions, and transporting munitions in new, … Continue Reading

This 286 page, illustrated handbook provides the reader with a complete introduction to ballistics and ammunition.

Aimed those wishing to research this science, you will find this publication on the finer points of ballistics and ammunition easy to read and entirely informative.

Contents:

CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION TO BALLISTICS

Section 1 – GeneralIntroductionApplication

Section 2 – DefinitionsGeneralIntrinsic ElementsInitial ElementsTerminal ElementsDefinitions Relating to Equipment

CHAPTER 2 – INTERNAL BALLISTICS

Section 1 – IntroductionGeneralSummary of EventsVelocity and PressureDistribution of EnergyMuzzle Velocity and Weight of Propellant Charge

Section 2 – PropellantGeneral

Section 3 – The Effects of Variations in Loading ConditionsGeneralPosition of All–BurntVariation in Charge WeightVariation in Propellant SizeVariation in Projectile … Continue Reading

A Treatise on Handloading for Pleasure, Economy and Utility

This is one of the most complete handbooks available on handloading available. It boasts 468 illustrated pages of timeless information – both well written and easy to follow. No topic is left out in this amazing handbook which takes the reader through every step of every method and everything in between.

Problems of the handloaderEquiment, fixtures and suppliesThe cartridge case – its deployment and manufactureCase inspection and preparationAltercation and adaptation of special casesPrimers – development and manufactureThe non–corrosive primerCasting bulletsBullet sizing and lubricatingPowder balances and scalesPowder measures and their useCommercial loading tools and … Continue Reading

This field manual provides guidance for unit commanders, platoon leaders, section chiefs, and other supervisory personnel on conventional ammunition support operations at the direct support (DS) and general support (GS) levels during peacetime, mobilization, and war or contingency tactical operation (WCTO). This manual also provides guidelines for WCTO sustainment.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1Ordnance Ammunition Units

Chapter 2 War/Contingency Ammunition Field Facilities

Chapter 3 Contingency Operations Planning, Transition to WCTO, and Post–WCTO Transition

Chapter 4 War/Contingency Tactical Operations

Chapter 5 War/Contingency Ammunition Storage Operations

Chapter 6War/Contingency Tactical Ammunition Supply Operations

Complete, illustrated guide to making your own improvised ammunition from scratch. No specialist tools or materials needed!

If old grandpa left you his old 12 gauge, or you want to shoot that old pistol you came across while cleaning the attic (and don’t have any ammo!) what do you do?

If you can’t buy ammo, or even primers and re–loading presses from a store, what do you do?

You will need to start from scratch! Expedient Homemade Ammo provides all the info’ you need to make simple effective ammo. At the end of the day, you don’t need ‘Presses or Primers’ … Continue Reading

If, for whatever reason, you cannot buy your 12g shells from a store, you may need to construct your own improvised 12g ammunition. The following document illustrates how 12g shells can be easily and quickly constructed with just a few simple tools and components.

If old grandpa left you his old 12 gauge, or you want to shoot that old pistol you came across while cleaning the attic (and don’t have any ammo!) what do you do? If you can’t buy ammo, or even primers and re–loading presses from a store, what do you do?? You will need to start from … Continue Reading

Complete with diagrams, this is the original how–to for how to create powerful, waterproof, exploding arrows and crossbow bolts. Do NOT confuse this with flaming arrows or some other lower tech guide. These are the real–deal, improvised exploding arrow blueprints and instructions.

Complete US Patent for how to create fin–stabilized ammunition.

From the Abstract:

Tracer visibility of APFSDS projectiles can be unhanced through a combination of increased steady spin rate, reduced muzzle obscuration, and optimized airflow over the stabilizing fin geometry of the sub–projectile. The preferred means to increase steady spin rates of the sub–projectile is to incline or deflect the fin blade tip portion, creating a larger, hotter burning, tracer plume.

This patent describes the manufacture of both the casing and the pyrotechnic composition of ammunition which is designed to set the target alight.

From the Abstract:

This invention relates to a fire cartridge for starting a fire under adverse circumstances or in inclement weather by an indervidual who may encounter such circumstances.

It is therefore, the object of this invention to overcome such adversity by providing a charge adaptable to any shell casing that may be inserted in and fired from the barrel of any conventional hand weapon to attain combustion in the target material

This is a very hard to find book. It is an original 1943 edition 400 pages will give you insight as to what the handloaders of the period had to work with. “A real treatise on modern cartridge components and their assembly by the individual shooter”.

The fundementals of expertise handed over through this book are timeless.

Army Ammunition Data Sheets for Artillery Ammunition Guns, Howitzers, Mortars, Recoilless Rifles, Grenade Launchers and Artillery Fuzes.

This manual is a reference handbook published as an aid in planning, training, familiarization and identification of artillery ammunition, including guns, howitzers, recoilless rifles, mortars, 50mm grenade launchers, and artillery fuzes.

For each item of materiel, there are illustrations and descriptions together with characteristics and related data. Included in the related data are weight, dimensions, performance data, packing, shipping and storage data, type classification, and logistics control code (LCC). b. Information concerning supply operation, and maintenance of the items will be found in the … Continue Reading

This field manual prescribes doctrine for munitions support. It explains in general terms how munitions units operate and how they interact to provide munitions to the user. It is the basis for munitions doctrine, materiel, training, and organizational development. This manual addresses munitions unit missions, operations, and interactions between the various levels of munitions support. Munitions Support in the Theater of Operations explains to combat arms, combat support (CS), and combat service support (CSS) commanders and their staffs how and where they receive munitions support. It establishes guidelines and procedures for munitions unit commanders and their staffs operating the munitions … Continue Reading

This document is straight to the point. How to reload 40mm nylon cases to propel a 5–5½ ounce projectile from 160 to 200 yards.

Volume 1. Small–Arms Cartridges Up to 15 mm

This guide outlines a systematic procedure for identifying military cartridges as to cartridge designation, country of manufacture, and–to a large extent–functional bullet type. Designed for used by persons who may not be familiar with small–arms ammunition, it provides basic information on cartridge types, construction, and terminology as well as more detailed identification data. This guide covers military cartridges in calibers of 15 mm and below–as well as several related paramilitary or target cartridges–that have been manufactured or used since 1930. Although some of the cartridges in this guide are obsolete in the country … Continue Reading

 This Special Ammunition series contains the following parts:

Special ammunition for blowguns

Special ammunition for wristrockets and slingshots

Special ammunition for firearms

Special ammunition for handguns

Special ammunition for shotguns

Special ammunition for compressed air/gas weapons

Special ammunition for b.b guns

Special ammunition for .22 caliber pellet guns

Extensively covers the Devel bullet designed by Charles Kelsey.

The basic principles to use were the following ones:

• 1º) was necessary to create the ammunition that is not of hollowed end.

• 2º) the effects of the ammunition at the time of the hydrodynamic shock had to the same generate a displacement of the energy in all the senses (similar to anyone of mentioned special–purpose ammunitions until this moment).

• 3º) the great problem of those years (principles of 90), was the separation of the disguised one with the nucleus, (lost of mass, erratic trajectory, etc), which with this ammunition was eradicated such … Continue Reading