A thorough resource on handloading at home, Shooter's Bible Guide to Handloading provides detailed information about the history of handloading and key figures' innovations, a simple explanation of hand reloading, selecting the basic tools needed, and choosing your cases, dies, primers, and powders as well as step-by-step instructions for reloading firearm cartridges and how to test your loads at the range. The text is supplemented by more than one hundred detailed photographs that illustrate the various types of reloading equipment available and provide guidance in performing the actions that result in a handloaded cartridge.
The Shooter's Bible Guide to Handloading covers interesting engineering questions the handloader may consider, including bullet integrity, copper bullets, and energy versus killing power.
Other topics covered include:
Handloading the old-fashioned way
Casting your own bullets
The influence of barrel length
Economics of...