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Wahoo!
Finally a book on reloading that doesn't tell folks
what they already don't need to know. Any shooter
who's spent much time behind the sights should at
least know that the ingredients are the key to the
recipe.
I said
something about this book in The Competitive AR15
and almost wish now that I hadn't: I used this
project as an example of how difficult it is for me
to say something is "good enough" and let it go.
I've been working on Handloading for Competition
for about four years and will get it done! Judging
from the number of people who have written,
e-mailed, or called trying to order the book, I'd
say it was about high time I sealed it up and sent
it off. So... Look for it on these pages, and
advertised in print, sometime early next Summer.
As I said,
the premise of this book is that there's a myriad
of sources that spout off loads, but there's not
much place to find out how to get those loads to
perform, let alone help in determining why some
work and others don't. My book is about producing
ammunition for competitive shooting, and all that
entails. And, rest assured, all you might want to
learn about finding a load for your rifle will be
in there. I'm going to get together as much input
as I can from good sources and lay it out in a
table.
Topics
include case preparation: what, why, and when.
Relationships between barrel and ammunition:
chamber specs, twist rates, length, gas system
influence, freebore. Modifying dies and tools to
work better. Loading methods, the truth about
progressive presses, and everything in the world
about bullet coatings. Testing. Zeros. Special
circumstances like loading for Long Range and for
M14s. Whether cleaning cases can hurt your barrel,
when we should and shouldn't listen to Benchrest
shooters, how lubrication can affect load
performance... It's a big, big book and it'll
overrun this web site if I continue telling all
that's going to be in Handloading for Competition.
Look for a chapter breakdown on this web site and
progress updates forthwith.
Release date:
ASAP (hopefully early summer 2000)
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