A Short Introduction to Propellants: From Blackpowder to Modern Smokeless (Soft Cover, B&W)

With 212, 6x9-inch pages, 55,000 words, 120 color pictures, 16 tables, and 2 graphs, this book includes sufficient information on many of the earlier sporting arms propellants and all modern sporting arms propellants, to allow the interested shooter and handloader to understand how these products came to be, how these products work, and how to best use these products in sporting arms applications. This text draws heavily on the propellant chapters in Metallic Cartridge Handloading (by this author). Here, that information is updated, where necessary; improved, where that was useful; and greatly expanded, because this format allowed that. This text includes significant new information on several subjects of interest to all handloaders. This is a companion piece to A Primer on the Primer; just as that book covers every aspect of primers, from manufacture to use, this book is equally thorough in covering every aspect of propellants. This book provides invaluable information to serious shooters who want to load the most accurate ammunition possible. If you are a serious shooter and you are not interested in accuracy (if such a person can actually exist, that would represent a self-contradictory condition that would fascinate me greatly), you will still find interesting information in these pages. Read more