Growing up, I read every single gun magazine that I knew about. I still can't believe that my parents agreed to buy them all. Like most of us, after I got a little older and wiser I realized that a lot of the stuff I was reading was crap. I then went for years without reading any gun magazines.
A couple years ago I discovered Handloader magazine and I feel like I am a kid again. I read and re-read the magazines from cover to cover. I recently even gathered up my whole collection of Handloader and started reading them all again.
My faviorite writer ? Brian Pearce.
Why ? He is a competent writer. He seems to know what he is talking about. But most importantly, he covers the subjects that interest me most: sixguns and cast bullets.
You want to read a good article ? There was what I considered an excellent article in the October issue of Handloader written by Gil Sengel entitled Ysterday's .38 S&W Special. It discussed the development of the cartridge, early .38 Special loads (basically from it's introduction to about WWII), and how to duplicate these loads today. These loads included the original black powder loads, gallery loads, target loads, and defense/police loads. He tells what moulds you can buy to duplicate the original bullets, what alloy to use for casting, what the original ballistic numbers were and what powders to use today to duplicate those loads. He then tests all the loads in a S&W Model 1905 Hand Ejector, and a S&W Model 1905 Hand Ejector Target. I think I ended up reading it three times.
Brian Pearce wrote a two part article a few months ago on the faviorite guns and loads of Skeeter and Elmer. He also did an article a few months ago on Keith bullets: what Elmer's philosophy in bullets was and the characteristics of real Keith type bullets. He talked about Keith bullets vs. LBT bullets. He told who today makes moulds that are true to the original design of Keith.
Books: I recently went to Amazon.com and typed "Elmer Keith" into their search engine. I then ordered every book that came up. I previously did the same with Skeeter Skelton. I already owned all the books by Jeff Cooper. I am currently reading Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights by Jim Cirillo.
A couple years ago I discovered Handloader magazine and I feel like I am a kid again. I read and re-read the magazines from cover to cover. I recently even gathered up my whole collection of Handloader and started reading them all again.
My faviorite writer ? Brian Pearce.
Why ? He is a competent writer. He seems to know what he is talking about. But most importantly, he covers the subjects that interest me most: sixguns and cast bullets.
You want to read a good article ? There was what I considered an excellent article in the October issue of Handloader written by Gil Sengel entitled Ysterday's .38 S&W Special. It discussed the development of the cartridge, early .38 Special loads (basically from it's introduction to about WWII), and how to duplicate these loads today. These loads included the original black powder loads, gallery loads, target loads, and defense/police loads. He tells what moulds you can buy to duplicate the original bullets, what alloy to use for casting, what the original ballistic numbers were and what powders to use today to duplicate those loads. He then tests all the loads in a S&W Model 1905 Hand Ejector, and a S&W Model 1905 Hand Ejector Target. I think I ended up reading it three times.
Brian Pearce wrote a two part article a few months ago on the faviorite guns and loads of Skeeter and Elmer. He also did an article a few months ago on Keith bullets: what Elmer's philosophy in bullets was and the characteristics of real Keith type bullets. He talked about Keith bullets vs. LBT bullets. He told who today makes moulds that are true to the original design of Keith.
Books: I recently went to Amazon.com and typed "Elmer Keith" into their search engine. I then ordered every book that came up. I previously did the same with Skeeter Skelton. I already owned all the books by Jeff Cooper. I am currently reading Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights by Jim Cirillo.
