Trophies and Cartridges

This book offers the reader a potpourri of information on an unusual mix of subjects that is sure to help hunters and shooters. Bullet development, gunsmithing tips for your Colt handguns, thoughts on accuracy, trophy hunting, shooting techniques with iron sights, various rifle and caliber commentary for various game, leverguns, cast bullets and hunting tips, just to name a few of the topics covered.

From the author's, Dave Scovill's, extensive experience as editor of Rifle, Handloader and Successful Hunter magazines, this book covers subjects usually not offered by other books, which is the purpose of this unique and valuable presentation.

Table of Contents

Caribou Cartridges/ Noted from the Arctic/ RCBS .45-270SWC/ .375 H&H/ Brinell Hardness Number/ Coyote Rifles and Such/ Developing Loads for the .45 Colt/ Shooting with Iron Sights/ Sturm, Ruger & Co. Blackhawk/ Thoughts on Accuracy/ Hard Cast Bullets/ Bring Back the .405 WCF/ RCBS Goes Cowboy/ Campillo Brothers Trophy Hunting/ The Science of Cast Bullets/ Loaded for Bear/ Cartridge - Chamber Design/ Fixing the .45 Colt/ The Model 94 Winchester/ .338 Scovill/ Shooting Leverguns/ Make Mine a .45 Colt Single Action Army/ Killing Power/ RCBS Cowboy Action Reloading Dies/ The 7x57mm Mauser, Again/ Brown Bear Rifles Part Two/ Velocity vs. Barrel Length - .45 Colt/ Food for Thought/ Pushing the Envelope/ Notes on the .45-70/ The C. Sharps .50-90 2 1/2 Part II, The Buffalo