Almost any handyman with a drill can produce a gun in a few weeks, but the same is not true for ammo. This book provides all the technical know-how you need to manufacture your own rifle, pistol or SMG ammo from scratch. Includes chapters on primers, powders, brass, bullets, cleaning, caching and more.

Would you like to learn a new hobby that will save you money while ensuring that you always have enough of the right ammunition for your shooting needs? Due to a continuing increase in sales of rifles and handguns, there is a definite shortage of ammunition of all types. As a result, more and more people are beginning to reload their own ammunition. This guide offers you an opportunity to follow an experienced handloader as he takes you through the reloading process, explaining the relationships of the various components and using real world examples to explain what works and what doesn't. Learn all about bullets, primers, cases, and powder, while gaining valuable insight on what equipment and materials you will need to produce accurate cartridges in a cost effective way. In addition, you'll learn how to inspect, record, test, and track the results of your efforts. If you are new to reloading or wish to grasp the basics more firmly, this guide will enable you to take the lessons discussed here and put them into action!

There are lots of books on making guns at home. Follow the instructions, and you'll quickly find you need some very expensive machinery. Not with Homemade Guns and Homemade Ammo! You'll learn to make guns-and ammunition-with simple hand tools and everyday materials. Homemade Guns and Homemade Ammo uses step-by-step photographs, detailed drawings and plans to show you exactly how to make: A 12-gauge shotgun from pipe A muzzleloader A double-barrel gun A wooden gun All made in your home! The author gives you five gunpowder recipes so simple you'll find them hard to believe-until you try them. Two super-simple recipes for making primer are also included. Homemade Guns and Homemade Ammo is the easy-to-use guide that shows the easy way to make guns and ammunition at home. Book jacket.

Starting from the very beginning, The Practical Guide to Reloading Ammunition will help readers understand the gear they need - and what can wait. Chapter by chapter, the book explains the entire process from brass cleaning to final inspection. Loaded with pictures and illustrations, the process is made simple and clear. With this book, readers will be reloading their own cost-effective ammunition quickly and safely.

Whether you’re a firearms enthusiast, an experienced shooter, or someone who has never even held a gun, Shoot: Your Guide to Shooting and Competition will help you explore different types of firearms, understand crucial safety rules, and learn fundamental shooting skills. This book provides an introduction to a wide variety of shooting sports through detailed descriptions that relate each type of competition to everyday activities and interests. High-quality photography from actual competitions and step-bystep instructional images augment the clearly written descriptions of both basic and advanced shooting skills. Throughout the book, Julie shares beneficial tips, explains sportspecific lingo, and stresses vital safety concerns. Going beyond just a skill-building manual for those new to firearms and shooting, Shoot addresses competition stress, goal setting, logging, and beneficial practice techniques to help all shooters, from novices to champions, excel and take their skills to the next level.

Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to getting started in the computer game industry. Written by professional game designers and developers, this book combines the fields of design, art, scripting, and programming in one book to help you take your first steps toward creating a game demo. Discover how the use of documentation can help you organize the game design process; understand how to model and animate a variety of objects, including human characters; explore the basics of scripting with Lua; learn about texturing, vertex lighting, light mapping, motion capture, and collision checking. The companion CD contains all the code and other files needed for the tutorials, the Ka3D game engine, the Zax demo, all the images in the book, demo software, and more!

Starting with the basics, this guide leads the reader through the process of reloading with ease. Perfect for beginners and a great refresher for experienced reloaders, the book first discusses all the necessary tools and accessories needed to get started, then goes through step-by-step instructions and safety tips for loading your own metallic cartridges and shotshells. Helpful illustrations guide readers through each step and make the process easy to understand.The ABC's of Reloading covers all aspects of the hobby, from benchrest loading techniques, to ballistic software, to competition and hunting loads and more. It also includes a comprehensive directory of reloading manufacturers. The guide carefully pieces together steps and techniques for reloading into an understandable process, outlining the basic procedures and providing information on cartridge cases, primers, powders, bullets, equipment and much more, putting beginners on the road to becoming experts!·

Make Your Own Ammo and Save Money Too! Now in its 10th edition, The ABCs of Reloading has taught countless firearms owners safe, reliable methods of creating their own ammunition. This long overdue new edition brings detailed reloading instruction to shooters who want to improve accuracy, save money and ensure themselves a constant supply of ammo regardless of supply and demand on retail shelves. Reloading expert and frequent Gun Digest contributor Phil Massaro lays out the basics of reloading and then digs further into the details in a fresh approach that introduces beginners to this valuable hobby while helping those already familiar with reloading take their skills and knowledge to the next level. As a bonus, long-range shooters searching for tips on making ultra-consistent ammo using high B.C. bullets and fine-tuning for precision accuracy will greatly benefit from Massaro's insight into that topic as well. Massaro's coverage of the vast array of reloading gear and components that have been introduced during the past decade alone makes this edition invaluable for the enthusiast who might be overwhelmed with questions. From the very basic questions of "How does a cartridge work?" and "What components do I need to get started?" to more advanced information on understanding cartridge pressure, headspace and using a chronograph to check your work, this is THE book to help shooters sort it all out.

Metallic Cartridge Handloading covers all aspects of the reloading process: cartridge case; maintaining, improving and loading the case; seating and reading of primers; loading of propellant; bullets and loading of bullets; accurate load development; internal & external ballistics; bullet making & casting; and handloading press. This is not a reloading manual containing specific recipes for various loads; it is a how-to book that covers the entire detailed process of cartridge reloading.