Nosler Reloading Guide

[14], 728, [2] pages. Illustrations. Includes Index to Cartridge Reloading data; Foreword by Wayne van Zwoll; Inside the Plant; Bullet Cutaways; We Do Our Homework; Getting Ready to Reload; Reloading Step by Step; Hunting with Nosler Bullets; Rifle Cartridge Reloading Data; An Introduction to Nosler Load Data; Rifle Cartridge Instructions, Test Information and Load Data; Handgun Cartridge Reloading Data, Nosler Bullet Data--Handgun, and Warning; An Introduction to Nosler Load Data; Rifle Cartridge Instructions, Test Information and Load Data; Handgun Cartridge Reloading Data, Nosler Bullet data--Handgun, Warning; An Introduction of Nosler Load data; Handgun Cartridge Introductions, test Information and Load Data; Nosler's Universal Rifle Ballistic Tables, Rifle Energy Chart; Nosler's Universal Handgun Ballistic Tables, Handgun Energy Chart; and Glossary. Award-winning author Wayne van Zwoll is the author of hundreds of magazine articles and 15 books, including The Complete Book of the .22, our own Gun Digest's Shooter's Guide to Rifles and Bolt Action Rifles. He is a regular contributor to the annual Gun Digest volume and a winner of that book's John T. Amber award for writing excellence. Once a contract photographer for the U.S. Forest Service, he has guided big game hunters in Utah and Wyoming and served as one of the first field directors for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. In 1996 he was named Shooting Sports Writer of the Year by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. This edition offers a snapshot in time of what was in use at the start of the 21st century. Nosler, Inc. is an American manufacturing company based in Bend, Oregon, known for producing ammunition and handloading components and specializing in high performance hollow point and soft point hunting bullets. The current companies also include subsidiaries Nosler Custom and Nosler Reloading. Nosler's contributions to shooting sports include both polymer-tipped bullet designs and new manufacturing techniques used in their production. John Amos Nosler was born on April 4, 1913 in Brawley, California. While hunting moose in British Columbia in 1946, the bullets he was using failed to penetrate deeply enough to reach vital organs and kill the animal quickly. At the time, most jacketed bullets employed a single copper alloy envelope (the jacket) around a single lead alloy core. The jacket on most military bullets was closed in front and opened at the base. These full metal jacket bullets offered good penetration, but often failed to expand and passed completely through an animal leaving a comparatively small wound. Soft-point hunting bullets like Nosler was using had the jacket applied in the opposite direction to completely cover the base, but open at the nose. These bullets would expand to leave a large wound channel, but sometimes broke into small pieces with inadequate momentum to overcome resistance of moving through bone or muscle tissue. The experience inspired Nosler to develop a new bullet design, intended to expand readily at low impact velocities yet maintain integrity at high impact velocities (see terminal ballistics). These Nosler Partition bullets used a specially designed jacket enclosing two separate lead alloy cores. The front core was open on the nose to expand easily, but expansion would stop at the partition (which was a solid layer of copper extending right across the bullet, not just the thin shell of copper which composed the jacket). The portion of the bullet behind the partition has the structural integrity of a full metal jacket bullet, but the expanded forward jacket leaves a larger wound channel. Bullets were originally manufactured for personal use, using hand made, lathe turned jackets. In 1948 Nosler began to sell the partition bullets commercially, forming Nosler, Inc. Further innovations by Nosler included new techniques of manufacturing bullet jackets that yielded more consistent expansion, better core bonding techniques to pr.