The Academy Award for the biggest book, with the longest title goes to… the envelope please… Ken Howell’s “Designing and Forming Custom Cartridges for Rifles and Handguns”; 4 lbs 4.3 oz, 596 pages, 8.75″ x 11.25″ x 1.5″. “DFCCRH” was published in 1995 and is currently in it’s second printing, […]

This book, or more appropriately “booklet” at 41 pages, represents one of the best values I’ve received from a publication. At first I was annoyed when I opened my $16 package and found this little black and white work inside, but as I read each page, I realized that I […]

There are many books with old publication dates that do a great job of providing insight into machine operation. In fact. many of the pre-computer era books are much closer to the small lathe and milling machines going into home workshops today, than many of the newer books that drift […]

I bought this book a while ago, just before I got the mini lathe and mini mill, but I set it aside as being less than useful. As I set up metal working projects after the new equipment was installed, I began to realize how little current practical material there […]

There are a number of good books on the market that focus on ballistics; internal, external and terminal. They are written on several levels, directed at different audiences, quite probably with different intent. “Modern Exterior Ballistics”, Robert L. McCoy which actually includes “The Launch and Flight Dynamics of Symmetric Projectiles” […]

God forgive me, I love these books. At the risk of having half of the state of Massachusetts letter bomb my web site, these books represent more entertainment value, and thought provoking content, than half of the gun related snooze material I’ve read over the past year. They are skinny […]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a thousand pictures, which makes RCBS Videos valuable for anyone considering reloading or bullet casting, or who has an interest in developing an understanding of these activities. I recently spent quite a bit of time looking at […]

The clip on the Wolf site notes next to this book, “Definitive book on large calibers from 8mm to .600 Nitro with more than 60 chapters containing load tables and commentary on the guns and cartridges. The best book ever done on big bores!” Not really, actually, not at all. […]

When I began to putter around with some of my own firearm repairs and upgrades, minor projects – nothing serious, I started picking up related shop and repair manuals and, later, video training tapes. One of the more favorable byproducts of exposure to this type of information was that it […]

Barnes publishes a different type of manual than other bullet manufacturers. Barnes manuals predominately serve experienced handloaders who wish to use Barnes bullets; the manuals lack the depth of handloading process information, and defined concepts or illustration of internal ballistics found in Hornady or Speer manuals. The 62 page section […]