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Complete Guide To Handloading Philip B. Sharpe [ 1937] { Text Replaced, Indexed}

Thirty or forty years ago the average gun bug—if he didn't feel humiliated to have that "insulting" title wished on him—found it necessary to load his own ammunition if he really wanted to get anywhere in the gun bug clan. In those days excellent results were obtained through painstaking labor—not necessarily precision equipment. The reloading of ammunition was a ceremony, one which required a certain ritual to perform, and the man who strayed from the accepted ritual was either outlawed by his associates or suffered from the pangs of a guilty conscience for many moons to come. Today we have no such ritual. Reloading is performed with considerably less care—except by a few fine technicians and target shots—and the results are often correspondingly poor. All this despite the fact that handloading has progressed to a remarkable extent; tools which would have been the envy of the 1900 loader are now available, and powders which excel in ease of handloading, cleanliness, and performance, anything which was available in that particular day. 458 pg

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