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Editor's Note: The internet has become an echo chamber where users cut and paste material without attribution. The men and women pioneers in cast bullet shooting at the turn of the 19th century were applying "scientific" methods to quantifying things like ballistics, chemistry, metallurgy, lead alloys, optics, physical conditioning, and many other aspects of the shooting genre. Articles have been selected that bear on reloading, casting, shooting, and specific guns, bullets, powders... There is a lot of things in reloading and casting that we do even today, but now we have a better idea on WHY it works... or doesn't...

Effects on pressure - Bullet Seating And Double Charging by R. G. Guenter

US Service Firearms
The U. S. Model 1906 Rifle by J. H. Barlow
The Pleasant Fiction of the Star Gauge By Edward C. Crossman
Inexpensive Ammunition For The Krag By Walter Guy Hudson

A New Load For The Krag-Jorgensen By Ex-Ordnance Sergeant

Recent Improvements In The .30 Caliber Reduced Load By W. G. Hudson, M.D.
Little Conveniences for Riflemen By R. E. Herrick
Shooting Accessories By Edward C. Crossman
Taming the Nineteen-Seventeen Bolt By “SNIPER”
Reloading for the .30 Springfield By C. S. Landis, reply by "CIVILIAN"

A Springfield Sight Kink By R.E. Herrick (Buffington-Style)

Another Reduced Charge for the Springfield By W. Cary Nicholas

Inaccuracy in Sight Scale Markings By J. R. Mattern


Public firearms
Experimenting with the 25-21 Rifle by C.S. Landis
In Defense of the .25-35 by W. S. Davenport
The Useful .32-20 by Maurice Decker
Three Of A Kind by Maurice Decker
The .30-20 And The Repeater That Uses It by Willis O.C. Ellis

Reduced .30-40 Loads.—Additional Notes W. G. Hudson, M. D.

The .38-55 As A Long Range Target Cartridge By "Dan"

The .38-55-255 High Power Cartridge By I. W. Copeland

The .41 Long Colt's Revolver By Maurice H. Decker
Some Popular .25 Calibers By Maurice H. Decker

Experimenting With A Ballard By Chas. Winthrop Sawyer (.335 groove .32-40)

The .28-30 Stevens And Other Rifles By A Stevens Rifle Crank
The Stevens .28 Caliber Rifle By John H. Cox

Little Lessons in Reloading by John Lynn
   Lesson 1: ?
   Lesson 2: Cast Bullet Accuracy: vol 65, No. 5 - Oct 26, 1918
   Lesson 3: Greasing Bullets p. 109 (76)
   Lesson 4: Sizing of Bullets pg 9 Nov 19, 1918 pg 129
   Lesson 5: Seating Bullets pg 114 (149)
   Lesson 6:
   Lesson 7: Selecting Rifle Powder When Reloading page Nov 30, 1918 189-190 (132-133)
   Lesson 8: Selecting Powders for reduced Loads No.11, 7 Dec 1918 – pg 209-210 (152-153)
   Lesson 9: Fine Points of Measuring Powder, No. 12, Dec 14, 1918 pgs 229-230 (172-173)
   Lesson 10: Manipulating Velocity, No. 13, Dec 31 1918 – pg 249 (192)
   Lesson 11: “Split Necks” and the Cleaning of Shells, No. 14, 28 Dec 1918 pgs 289-290 (212-213)
   Lesson 12: Resizing Necks and Full length, pg 289, Jan 4, 1919
   Lesson 13: To Crimp or Not and Oiling the Shells, No. 16, Jan 11, 1919 pg 329 (232)
   Lesson 14: Shell Mouths and Rifle Chambers Jan 18, 1919 pg 329
   Lesson 15?

Cocking Piece Sight (genesis of Lyman 103)

Practical Rifle Shooting by W.D. King, Jr.
    PREFACE:
   PART I -- The Beginning (pgs 61-63)
   PART II - Physical and Mental Conditioning (pgs 148-149)
   PART III - Rifle Fit and Stance (pgs 222-223)
   PART IV – Iron Sights and Scopes (pgs 304-305)
   PART V - Moulding Bullets (pgs 383-384)
   PART VI - Holding the Rifle (pg 475)

Loading Accurate Rifle Ammunition by Hand by C.S. Landis
   PART I - THE TOOLS REQUIRED (pg 138)
   PART II —OPERATIONS OF RELOADING (pg 196)
   PART III LOADING AND RESIZING THE SHELLS (pgs 258-259)
   PART IV - CONCLUSION (pgs 476, 503, 504)

A Study In Small Bores By Lieut. Townsend Whelen

Reducing Cost of Ammunition By Lieut. Col. Townsend Whelen

More Shooting for Less Money by J. R. Mattern
Jottings of a Guncrank by D. Wiggins
Holding the Rifle - article plus replies
How to Estimate the Accuracy of any Given Rifle and Cartridge By Lt. Colonel Townsend Whelen
American Single Shot Pistols by Henry Walter Fry
A Little of My Rifle Dope By A. B. Haile
Points On Reloading Rifle And Revolver Shells. By Maurice H. Decker

The Sporting Rifle by E. A. Leopold (In ten parts)

   Part I

   Part II
   Part III
   Part IV
   Part V
   Part VI - Velocity, Energy, Recoil
   Part VII - Accuracy - Fouling, Rifling, Patching, Pressure
   Part VIII - Muzzle Blast
   Part IX
   Part X - Killing Power - HP, Penetration

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On the Subject of Repeating Rifles by Lycurgus
Shotgun Powder for Reduced Loads By M. B. Paine
The Importance of Equipment By W. R. Stokes

Fecker Telescope Articles by F. W. Fecker
   A Precise Method of Focusing Telescopic Sights
   The Theory of the Telescopic Sight
   Altering the Power of the Telescope
   Cleaning and Assembling Telescopic Sights
   How to Make and Insert Cross Wires and Post Reticules

Bullets Versus Snow by Major Isaac Arnold, Jr., Ordnance Dept., U. S. A.
Cleaning the Rifle Telescope by C. S. Landis (Winchester scope, circa 1919)
A New 30 Caliber Bullet (308234) By E. P. Armstrong
The Latest Bullets (308274, 308279, 308280 and 308278)
The Killing Capacity of Hot Lead by John Lynn
A New Bullet (319289) by F. D. Shepherd
Some Notions About Rifle Bullets By Thomas Clarke Harris
Shotgun Powder in Rifles By Van Allen Lyman
The .405 By John Lynn (Rod and Gun in Canada)
Reloading the .280 Ross By J. R. Mattern In "Rod and Gun in Canada"
Reloading Rifle Shells Marlin Arms Corporation
Reduced Loads For Short Ranges by A.L. Bragg
Adapting the High- Power Rifle to Small Game Shooting By Maurice H. Decker. Supplemental or Auxiliary Chambers
Improvement In Methods Of Manufacturing Bullets By William W. Winchester Kean split tip bullets
Mechanical Hints (Making Patched Bullet Molds) by "H"
Cast Bullets For High Power Rifles By N.H.R.
Reloading Cartridges By Charles Newton
Reloading by Willis O.C. Ellis (might be missing continuation, vol 31?)
The Newton-Pope Rifling and the Oval Bore By Charles Newton
Two Hundred Yard Sharpshooting By Charles Askins
Reloading The 250 With Homemade Bullets By Byron E. Cottrell

The Prince Of Small Arms By “Smallarms” (.32-40)
Popularity Of The 25 Calibre (25716, 25720, 25731)
How Gun-Barrels Are Straightened By William H. Avis.



Winchester Self Loading Rifles (1905, 1907, 1910) Hunter-Trader-Trapper
Winchester .351 Self Loading Rifle Arms & Explosives
The Winchester Self-Loading Rifles By Maurice H. Decker.