130 pages, about 11" x 8", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice original. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 130

• Speer Wildcat Loads
• Lewiston Idaho, 1956
• WILDCAT CARTRIDGES
• History and necessity of wildcat cartridges, various methods used in making wildcats
• PRESSURES AND THE HANDLOADER
• Handloaders concern over pressures, how pressures are determined, normal pressures for various cartridges. causes of pressure variations. how hand loaders can tell pressures in their own rifles
• RIFLE ACCURACY
• Degree of accuracy to expect, barrel bedding for best accuracy, handloading accurate ammunition
• EXTERIOR BALLISTICS
• Explanation of ballistic coefficients of bullets and how they are determined, use of ballistic coefficients to obtain drop, trajectory, remaining velocity and bullet energy at any range
• EFFICIENT POWDER SELECTION
• New method for finding most efficient powder to use in any cartridge in any caliber
• BALLISTIC PROPERTIES OF SPEER BULLETS
• Sectional density. ballistic coefficient. bullet energy tables
• VARIATION OF MUZZLE VELOCITY WITH POWDER TEMPERATURE
• LOADING DATA
• .22 K Hornet
• .22-3000 Lovell
• .22-2R Lovell
• .243 Winchester
• . 244 Remington
• . 244 Remington, Ackley Improved
• .243 Rockchucker
• .257 Roberts, Ackley Improved
• .25 Ackley Magnum
• .257 Weatherby Magnum
• .270 Savage
• .270-.257 Ackley Improved
• .270 Ackley Magnum
• .270 Weatherby Magnum
• 7 mm Mauser, Ackley Improved
• 7 mm-‘06
• 7 x 64 Improved
• .285 Luft Magnum
• 7 x 61 Sharpe & Hart
• 7 mm Mashburn Magnum
• 7 mm Weatherby Magnum
• .30-'06 Ackley Improved
• .300 Weatherby Magnum
• 8 mm-‘06
• .358 Winchester
• .35 Improved Magnum
• LOADS FOR .30 CALIBER 130 GRAIN BULLETS
• .300 Savage
• .308 Winchester
• .30-06 Springfield
• .300 Short Magnum
• .300 H & H Magnum
• LOADS FOR 8 MM 225 GRAIN BULLETS
• 8 x 57 Mauser