Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook - 3rd Edition - 1992.pdf

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“Preparation for this book has covered a span of several years and included a thorough review of our bullet designs, dimensions and standards to ensure that bullets cast and processed by Lyman equipment will give good results.
There are more than 5,000 tested cast bullet loads in our data tables. Included are both “fast” and “slow” powders in good working combinations.
As in each Lyman handbook, we endeavor to explain the basic operations involved in casting and sizing bullets, selecting components and reloading rifle and pistol cartridges. Beyond that we have prepared sections of interest to the advanced bullet caster.
Students of exterior ballistics will find 119 pages of trajectory and wind drift tables for cast rifle bullets prepared by Ted Almgren and Dr. Bill McDonald. Space limitations precluded the inclusion of similar tables for cast pistol bullets and the muzzleloading conicals and roundballs. These complete tables can be found in our PISTOL & REVOLVER HANDBOOK and the BLACKPOWDER HANDBOOK, respectively—as can extensive load tables and related information.
One of the recent developments of vital interest to cast bullet shooters is the metallurgical research of lead alloy and the resultant information. We are pleased to offer a substantial article on the properties of molten lead by Dennis Marshall, a cast bullet shooter who happens to be a research scientist with a large metallurgical firm.
This Lyman Handbook is the most substantial reloading reference published, to date, for cast centerfire bullets.”