No primers, so I bought books instead...

[Peter M. Eick]

Well, no primers at the local toy store, so I did not want to bring the cash back home. Thus I added to the book pile.

I have been trying to build up my collection of the classics so today I bought:

Naramores "Princilples and practices of loading ammunition" 1954

Hatchers "textbooks on pistols and revolvers" 1935 (lots of good info on the old pistol and revolver ballistics.

Crossman's "Military and Sporting Rifle Shooting" 1939.

You can always learn about reloading by reading the older classics.

[Raider]

I think you made a wise decision on the books. I enjoy my library almost as much as my guns.

Charlie

[huthike]

When I'm not buying guns, I'm buying and reading books about guns...you found some oldies but goodies. I usually find mine online at Abebooks, but it is fun when you run across them at a bricks and mortar place.

[Peter M. Eick]

I am on a campaign to try and fill out my library with the classic books. This all started for me when I bought my first copy of Phil Sharpe's reloading. Now I am just steadily buying and reading some of the older classic books about reloading and shooting. Pretty amazing the level of technical details available in books back then. We have certainly lost a lot of that level of expertise in the modern printed books.

[canoe on the yukon]

Originally Posted by Peter M. Eick

I am on a campaign to try and fill out my library with the classic books. This all started for me when I bought my first copy of Phil Sharpe's reloading. Now I am just steadily buying and reading some of the older classic books about reloading and shooting. Pretty amazing the level of technical details available in books back then. We have certainly lost a lot of that level of expertise in the modern printed books.

It's obvious that newer books are going to have the advantage of up to date guns,equipment,components,etc.....however,with few exceptions,I find most of the newer books to be little more than reflections of the gun rag mentality.Most of the older books were actually informative in a manner that had substance.