[Elkins45]

There's a closeout store called Ollie's in Florence, KY and my wife and I went in there yesterday to kill some time before the movies. I was looking at the selection of cheap overstock books when I spied what looked like a picture of a reloading press on the cover of one. Suffice to say I'm now the owner of the fourth edition of The Handloader's Manual of Cartridge Conversions for the grand sum of $6.99.

What an interesting book! The vast majority of the 600+ pages are descriptions of how to make one case from another, but there's a short front section about general reloading as well. Some of the front section also deals with esoteric stuff particular to cartridge conversion like lathe cutting cases, fireforming, bumping bullets, etc.

If you happen to live in the northern KY area I highly recommend you stop in at Ollie's and pick up a copy. There were 6-7 other copies on the shelf as of yesterday evening.

[GT1]

Sounds like an interesting book. I'll have to be on the lookout for it.

[cfullgraf]

Yes, it is a good book and that is a deal.

The book is a wealth of information. My main use has been for finding base cartridges to use for forming a couple obsolete cartridges that i load.

[mallc]

The Home Guide to Cartridge Conversions by Nonte from the Gun Room Press. I found it while I was looking for The Handloader's Manual and the only copy i could find was $50.

You did good on that find!

Scott

[joecil]

Try Amazon, Scott. I just checked and they have it for about $14 and up for a copy.

[zoom6zoom]

I also have had a copy of Nonte's version for many years. The main problem with it is that many of the cases he uses as the starting point for conversions are themselves fairly hard to find these days.

[Elkins45]

Amazon has one seller with a copy of the Nonte book for $394! I think I could pay someone to convert the cartridges for me for that price!