Wildcat Cartridges is a compilation of  excellent quality articles from Handloader andRifle Magazines, starting  with .14 calibers, covering both rifle and handgun loads. More than a static list of  loads, the book provides a great deal of insight into powder and bullet types and  suppliers, various case designs relating to […]

This is one of those books that offers  essentially whatever you’d like to extract from it. It clearly answers the question,  “How much recoil would be generated, by a 50 BMG round necked down to .338, and  stuffed with a 300 grain Sierra Match bullet ?” However, it will also […]

I frequently get e-mail from people who are  looking for obsolete cartridges brass, or loaded ammo. Unfortunately, with the exception  of those cartridges resurrected by cowboy action shooting, there are fewer outlets for  this type of product and the material is very expensive when it can be found. “The  Handloader’s […]

This book is representative of an  unfortunate growing trend with national book retailers. It’s marked up to a price above  retail, and listed as special order from Barnes & Noble with delivery in 3 – 5 weeks.  Actually, the book is in wide distribution, readily available and can be purchased […]

I bought this book after buying my Ruger .45  Colt and completing a lot of grunt research on the single action revolver. Probably would  have been a good book to get prior to purchasing because it offers a broad look at big  bore six-guns, both single and double action, although […]

Cartridges of the World is one of those  books that ends up with bent corners and coffee stains on the pages, it gets used a lot.  It’s an excellent reference work. There may be some obscure cartridges that are missed,  but considering it covers 6mm shot shells, the 5.5mm Velo […]

I bought the book when I was doing research  on cartridges originating during the early to mid 1900’s, that were used in African  hunting. After about 15 minutes of reading, I was back in Ms. Conahan’s junior high school  homeroom class, reading stories of African Adventures from a book tucked […]

For the price, this is a pretty good reference book.  There were some sections that were of questionable merit, as an example, 50+ pages  dedicated to a manufacturers index, many with no direct relationship to the topic at hand.  As an example, is a listing for a knife manufacturer really […]

This is not the type of book you want to  pick up after eating a tuna sandwich, or leave on a work bench next to an open bottle of  nitro solvent. It isn’t the type of book to buy if you measure your reading pleasure by  pounds of pages of […]

The Ruger American Rifle and Crossfire II scope had too much potential and I had too many handloading components to end the assessment with factory ammo. Handloading is not a casual endeavor, at least is you have all of your digits and eyebrows and you don’t have a barrel in […]