Description
Product Details:
Publisher: Gun Digest
Hardcover: 496 pages
Digital: PDF
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9781959265078
SRN Paperback: S8450
SRN Digital Download: S8441
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
About The Author
Fred Zeglin has taught classes for the NRA Short Term Gunsmithing program at three separate colleges and the Firearms Technology program at FVCC. Zeglin is a recognized expert in wildcat cartridge design and development and earned his degree and professional certificate in gunsmithing at Lassen College. He is the author of Hawk Cartridges Manual and P.O. Ackley: America’s Gunsmith.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Philip Massaro
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 What is a Wildcat?
CHAPTER 2 Nomenclature (What’s that thingamabob?)
CHAPTER 3 Improved Cartridges
CHAPTER 4 Parker Otto Ackley
CHAPTER 5 Cartridge Case Design and Development
CHAPTER 6 Has It Been Done Before?
CHAPTER 7 History of Wildcatting
CHAPTER 8 Predicting Results
CHAPTER 9 Wildcat Design Principles
CHAPTER 10 Pressure
CHAPTER 11 Smashing The Headspace Myth
CHAPTER 12 Reamers
CHAPTER 13 Rifle Chambers
CHAPTER 14 Accuracy and Cartridge Design
CHAPTER 15 Case-Forming Tools and Methods
CHAPTER 16 Reloading Dies
CHAPTER 17 Testing Wildcat Cartridges
CHAPTER 18 Wildcats Through 2004
CHAPTER 19 Wildcatting 2004 to 2023—NEW!
CHAPTER 20 Charles Newton, Ballistic Genius
CHAPTER 21 Jerry Gebby, Father of the .22 Varminter
CHAPTER 22 Rocky Gibbs … Living on the Edge
CHAPTER 23 Math for Handloaders and Wildcatters
CHAPTER 24 Alternative Ammo for .22 LR Chambers—NEW!
CHAPTER 25 Armscor M22 TCM: Wanderings with a Micromagnum—NEW! Afterword
Appendix I Reloading Components and Dies—NEW!
Appendix II Comparing Cases by Water Weight Capacity—NEW!
Appendix III Specialty Reloading Tools—NEW!
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