Condition: Good – 410 Pages
The Modern Handloading book is full of invaluable and timeless principles of successful handloading. Enhanced with numerous pictures, data charts and schematics.
Topics include the following:
- History and Development
- Your Handloading Shop
- Characteristics and Operation of Basic Tools
- Cartridge Cases and Their Manufacture
- Primers: History and Development
- Smokeless Powder Manufacture
- Bullets
- Chamber Pressure
- Headspace and Handloading
- Case Preparation and Resizing
- Priming the Case
- Seating Bullets
- Inspection and Testing of Handloads
- Load Development
- Home-made Bullets
- Modern Commercial Loading Tools
- Powder Measures and Scales
- Military Surplus Ammunition
- Case Forming and Alteration
- Reduced Loads
- Special Purpose Loads
- Loading for Auto Rifles
- Handgun Loading
- Loading for Black Powder Guns
- Ammunition for Early Breechloaders
- Handloading Mathematics
- Mass Production Handloading
- Home-made Tools and Equipment
- The Shotshell
- Primers, Powder, Wads & Shot
- Shotshell Loading Tools and Equipment
- Loading Operations
- Special Purpose Loads
- Handloader’s Glossary
- Ballistics Charts
- Table of Kinetic Energy of Bullets
- Capacities of Popular Calibers
- Sectional Densities of Bullets
- Measures of Weight
Printed in 1972 – 410 pages – Hard bound. Condition: Good.