The Handloader S Manual Of Cartridge Conversion

Now available for the first time since 2003, The Handloader’s Manual of Cartridge Conversions offers the handloader all the physical data, how-to designs, tools, and drawings needed to convert modern, easily obtainable materials into more than 1,000 different rifle and pistol cartridge cases, ranging from the obsolete patterns to modern, cutting-edge “wildcats.” This classic guide has been revised with a new, easy-to-reference format, complete with a full index of hundreds of cartridges. This truly is the handloader’s one-stop guide for creating personalized cartridges.

More than 1,000 cartridges described in detail, complete with dimensions and clear, accurate drawings, including case capacities and all physical data. Stoeger's classic handloading guide has been revised and updated with a new, easy to reference format and additional cartridge data. The Handloader's Manual provides all the physical data, how-to designs, tools and drawings needed to convert modern materials into more than 900 rifle and pistol cartridge cases, ranging from hard-to-find obsolete patterns to modern cutting-edge "wildcats." Book jacket.

Stoeger's classic handloading guide, "The Handloader's Manual of Cartridge Conversion has been revised with a new, easy-to-reference format and additional cartridge data. This manual offers the handloader all the physical data, how-to designs, tools and drawings needed to convert modern, easily obtainable materials into more than 900 rifle and pistol cartridge case ranging from obsolete patterns to modern cutting-edge "wildcats."

All the physical data, how-to details, drawings, and tools needed to convert over 900 obsolete cartridge cases into shootable centerfire ammo.

The reasons for handloading ammunition may be summed up as (a) permitting one to obtain the greatest possible accuracy from his rifle, pistol or revolver and (b) providing one with an abundance of ammunition at small expense. If you have a firearm that you do not shoot as much as you would like to because of the expense, it will pay you to reload your fired cartridge cases. Any person can, with a few simple tools and the instructions contained within this book learn how to handload.

Metallic Cartridge Handloading covers all aspects of the reloading process: cartridge case; maintaining, improving and loading the case; seating and reading of primers; loading of propellant; bullets and loading of bullets; accurate load development; internal & external ballistics; bullet making & casting; and handloading press. This is not a reloading manual containing specific recipes for various loads; it is a how-to book that covers the entire detailed process of cartridge reloading.

Illustrated Edition of 1959 in Facsimile. This is the first edition of one of the classic descriptions of wildcat cartridges, first published in 1949. Though revised and updated in 1962, this is Ackley's first effort at tackling the loading data, theory, and practice of wildcat cartridges. A wildcat cartridge, often shortened to wildcat, is a custom cartridge for which ammunition and/or firearms are not mass-produced. These cartridges are often created in order to optimize a certain performance characteristic (such as the power, size, or efficiency) of an existing commercial cartridge. Developing and using wildcat cartridges does not generally serve a purpose in military or law enforcement; it is more a hobby for serious shooting, hunting, gunsmithing and handloading enthusiasts, particularly in the United States.