162 pages, about 8" x 6", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated. The 1916 and 1915 #26 books contain the same text.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 162

• How to Prepare your own Ammunition
• Expansion of Shells
• Reloading with Black Powder
• Resizing and Crimping Rifle and Pistol Shells
• Bullets and Casting
• Lubrication of Bullets using Ideal tools
• Indented versus Grooved Shells
• Short range Ammunition
• Ideal Gas Check Bullets
• Table of Gas Check Bullets
• Ideal Hand Made bullets
• Measuring Powders and a Powder Charges
• No. 5and no. 6 Universal Powder Measures
• Weights Measures and Comparisons
• General Information For Beginners
• Smokeless, Black Powder, and Gauges
• Ideal Loading Machine
• Tools for reloading Paper shells
• Straightline capper and Recapper
• Ideal Crimper No. 1 and 2
• Ideal Diamond Crimper and Shell trimmer
• Star Crimper No# 1, No. 2 and No.3
• Marlin Crimp Support Ring
• Round Ball for Shotguns
• Twist of Rifling In barrels
• Ballistics of Metallic Cartridges
• Ideal Tool No. 1 and No. 6
• Ideal tool No. 4 and No. 6 Adjustable
• Ideal tool No. 3 and No. 8
• Ideal tool No. 10 for rimless cartridge
• Ideal Bullet Sizer Indentor and Fluted Cap extractor
• Kake Kutter Ideal Lubrication
• Illustration of Bullets and their caliber and use
• Gas Check Bullets
• What it costs to make 1000 bullets
• Reloading .30 Caliber Model 1906 Ammunition by Col. Whelen
• Ideal Armory Loading Outfit
• Ideal Loading Press and tools
• Ideal Experiences
• Ads for Dupont, Game Laws In brief, Forest and Stream,
• Ads for Field and Stream, Schoverling Daly and Gales
• Ads for Hercules Powder, Outdoor Life, Maxim
• Ads for School of Taxidermy, Marbles, Marlin, U S Cartridge, Colt