Hardcover reprint of the original 1916 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience.

Patient delving into this volume will show an alert reader how paper cartridges became metal cartridges. Most general readers have no conception, for example, how many competing systems were in place during the Civil War.

Tables identify cartridges by measurement and offer ballistics and loading data. Learn the history of 1,500+ European and American cartridges in this single volume.

Cartridges and Firearm Identification brings together a unique, multidisciplined approach to quest

The text is supplemented by more than one hundred detailed photographs that illustrate the various types of reloading equipment available and provide guidance in performing the actions that result in a handloaded cartridge.

Serious shooters and reloaders will find the cartridges they love--and many they never dreamed of--in this newest edition of the most widely read cartridge reference book ever published.published.

Original Publishing: United States Cartridge Company. Illustrated Catalogue Of United States Cartridge Company's Collection Of Firearms: The Most Complete Collection In The United States, . Lowell, Mass., U.S.A.: The Company, 1903.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

The story begins with biographical sketches of the key players involved in the manufacture, the water way that supplied the power, relative U.S. patents, typical cartridge characteristics; pre-metalic, rim fire, center fire cartridges, ...