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Shooter's Bible Guide to Rifle Ballistics, Vol. 2, is a valuable and easy-to-read reference on cartridges and their ballistics, with emphasis on hunting cartridge and their use.

Author Wayne van Zwoll does a good job of explaining bullet performance, wind, distance, and other variables affecting accuracy. Combine the information here with some solid practice, and perseverance, and you'll become a more efficient and accurate shooter.

The Shooter's Bible Guide to Rifle Ballistics is one of many guidebooks that are offshoots of the main Shooter's Bible. Published annually for more than eighty years, and with over seven million copies sold worldwide, Shooter’s Bible is the most complete and sought-after reference guide for new products, specifications, and current prices on thousands of firearms and related equipment. Each new edition contains up-to-date handgun and rifle ballistic tables along with extensive charts of currently available bullets and projectiles for handloading, as well as a new products section. Complete with color and black and white photographs showcasing various makes and models of firearms and equipment, Shooter’s Bible is the perfect addition to the bookshelf of any beginner or experienced hunter, firearm collector, or gun enthusiast.

ISBN-13: 9781510760042

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Skyhorse

Publication Date: 07-19-2022

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 7.90(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Wayne van Zwoll is a full-time journalist for the outdoors press and has published more than 2,500 articles and thousands of photos in magazines such as Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Sporting Classics, Safari, Fair Chase, and African Hunting Gazette. Now in its thirty-second year, his "Rifles and Cartridges" column in the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's Bugle is the publication's longest running feature. His other columns appear in Guns, GameTrails, Buckmasters, Wild Sheep, and Predator Xtreme. He has published sixteen books on hunting and shooting. A former hunting guide, he conducts safaris in Namibia in a program to introduce women to big-game hunting. His competitive rifle shooting has brought him two state titles. He is a professional member of the Boone and Crockett Club and a board member of the Jack O'Connor Center. Van Zwoll earned a doctorate in wildlife policy from Utah State University, where he also taught creative writing. He currently lives in north-central Washington.

Table of Contents

Introduction viii

Section I Ballistics in History 1

1 Hurling Things That Hurt 2

2 Gunpowder! 5

3 Rifles for a Frontier 9

4 Breech-Loaders at Last! 11

5 Rifles from a Door Latch 15

6 What the Numbers Mean 18

Section II The Muscle behind the Shot 21

7 Primers: Sparkplugs with Bang! 22

8 Fuel for the Cartridge 25

9 Propellants from Cotton 29

10 Dupont: Powder Pioneer 32

11 The Hodgdon Story 35

12 Not Quite Black Powder 38

Section III Bullets-The Inside Story 41

13 Bullets and Rifling 42

14 Opening the Throttle 47

15 Controlled Upset, Then and Now 51

16 The All-Copper Option 57

17 Speer, Nosler, Hornady 62

18 Inside an Ammo Factory 67

Section IV Speed, Energy, and Arc 72

19 Headspace First 73

20 Chaos in the Rifle 78

21 Figuring Bullet Flight 80

22 Morton Speed 83

23 Knockdown is a Myth 86

24 Of Drop and Drift 99

Section V Putting Ballistics to Work 103

25 How to Zero 104

26 Never a Miss 109

27 Wind Wisdom 113

28 When the Target Moves 118

29 Minding the Angles 122

30 Recoil! 126

Section VI For Longer Reach 131

31 Faster and Shorter 132

32 Notes on Handloading 138

33 Long Shots at School 144

34 A Day in the Desert 151

35 Dial Up at Distance 156

36 The Wrong Shot 161

Section VII Best of the Middle Bores 169

37 A Very Fast Ball 170

38 Three Hun'erd! 179

39 Six-Five Revived 187

40 What about the 7S? 194

Ballistics 202

Glossary 247