Complete Guide To Handloading
Filed In Ammunition
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.
Complete Guide To Handloading encompasses following matter:
- Problems of the handloader
- Equipment, fixtures and supplies
- The cartridge case – its deployment and manufacture
- Case inspection and preparation
- Altercation and adaptation of special cases
- Primers – development and manufacture
- The non–corrosive primer
- Casting bullets
- Bullet sizing and lubricating
- Powder balances and scales
- Powder measures and their use
- Commercial loading tools and their use
- Dies and gauges
- The headspace problem in handloading
- The pressure problem
- Reduced, mid–range and target loads – reason and importance
- Obsolete black powder and foreign cartridges
- Fouling and its cleaning problems
- Handgun ammunition
- Magnum handgun and rifle possibilities
- Shot loads for revolvers
- Quantity production for police and clubs
- Testing bullets
- Practical handloading computations with the slide rule
- Records – value and methods of keeping
- Making muzzle loaders perform