Post by oldstuffer on Dec 30, 2019 14:39:34 GMT -5
I don't think of this book very often, but since I drug it out to look up something, and I devoted a good hour this AM to trolling through it looking at several other things, I now think to mention it here.
Also to RECOMMEND it to anyone's Resource Library who homemakes ammunition.
"Propellant Profiles"
Current is the 6th edition.
IMO the is little to no reason to fetch any older editions (1-5) because from reading it those edition's information is IN 6th.
Long Experienced gunpowders have as many as 4, 5, or 6 pages, complete separate entries, and they are sequential entries, meaning the first is likely the same entry from whichever edition it appeared in first.
What I mean is, it appears that, from each later edition, information has merely been ADDED, not any information removed.
It is a thick book, around 1-1/2 inches thick, 8x11 typical, softcover. Information on virtually all of the available powders today and a great many no longer available anymore.
It is 3 yrs old now, so anything more recently released will of course not be included.
www.amazon.com/Propellant-Profiles-Sixth-Publishing-Company/dp/0935632190
It is available all over the internet, typical price is ballpark $45 as in the Amazon link above.
Some goofball on Flea-Bay wants $212, Ahhh, it's a "5th ed" from 2009, being "out of print" must make it "collectable". At least S&H is only $4.
Again, I recommend it for anyone who wants to Get Their Gunpowder Geek On and wind up learning a LOT MORE stuff about them then you EVER expected to know, history, composition, physical properties, good (and not-so-good) uses, on and on.
2 of the "complaints" from a review on Amazon link above:
#3, true, it does not address in any direct manner "what is smokeless gunpowder", "how is it made", or what I would term "gross overall differences" between types.
#4, true, this is NOT a Load Data manual, what load data is in it (every powder includes some) is specific to THE POWDER, not to The Cartridge. The gunpowders however ARE "organized" AND there IS a "Table of Contents".
If a person wants a Load data manual, many exist, Lyman, Hornady, Speer, Sierra, Accurate/Western, Hodgdon, Lee, Nosler, on and on.
Everything in the book is arranged by Alphabet and Number.
Accurate Arms Powders come before Alcan, Alliant, Hodgdon, IMR (not Dupont), Norma, Vhitavouri, and of course Winchester who is last.
Within each Powder Maker Section, their products are Alphabet-first, Numerically second, thus, under Norma, the first entry is MRP, followed by MRP2, followed by #200 up to #2010.
Thus, if you want to know about Ramshot Tac, you go to the Western Powders section and go past Blackhorn209, past Ramshot Hunter, past Ramshot Silhouette, to Ramshot TAC.
And so on.
It is not anything "vital" to a reloading bench to make good, safe, accurate, ammo. It is however a serious compendium of knowledge about the gunpowders themselves, as I said, for the Ammo Geek in some of us.
Also to RECOMMEND it to anyone's Resource Library who homemakes ammunition.
"Propellant Profiles"
Current is the 6th edition.
IMO the is little to no reason to fetch any older editions (1-5) because from reading it those edition's information is IN 6th.
Long Experienced gunpowders have as many as 4, 5, or 6 pages, complete separate entries, and they are sequential entries, meaning the first is likely the same entry from whichever edition it appeared in first.
What I mean is, it appears that, from each later edition, information has merely been ADDED, not any information removed.
It is a thick book, around 1-1/2 inches thick, 8x11 typical, softcover. Information on virtually all of the available powders today and a great many no longer available anymore.
It is 3 yrs old now, so anything more recently released will of course not be included.
The most convenient and comprehensive reference available to American reloaders from the last 45 years. Includes manufacturers and authors' recommended loads and tips. Newly revised and updated to include the newer and discontinued powders as well as 71 additional powders not mentioned in the fifth edition.
www.amazon.com/Propellant-Profiles-Sixth-Publishing-Company/dp/0935632190
It is available all over the internet, typical price is ballpark $45 as in the Amazon link above.
Some goofball on Flea-Bay wants $212, Ahhh, it's a "5th ed" from 2009, being "out of print" must make it "collectable". At least S&H is only $4.
Again, I recommend it for anyone who wants to Get Their Gunpowder Geek On and wind up learning a LOT MORE stuff about them then you EVER expected to know, history, composition, physical properties, good (and not-so-good) uses, on and on.
2 of the "complaints" from a review on Amazon link above:
3) There is very little information about smokeless powder. I'm not talking about specific powders, but rather smokeless powder in general. Ball vs. flake vs. extruded powder. Single base vs. double base, when to use them, when or even if it matters. There's not even a burn rate chart included in this book. That, to me, is unacceptable for a text claiming to be the authority on propellants.
4) There is no glossary or index. Have a specific cartridge that you're trying to find data for? Have fun painstakingly searching through this 555 page text until you find it.
4) There is no glossary or index. Have a specific cartridge that you're trying to find data for? Have fun painstakingly searching through this 555 page text until you find it.
#4, true, this is NOT a Load Data manual, what load data is in it (every powder includes some) is specific to THE POWDER, not to The Cartridge. The gunpowders however ARE "organized" AND there IS a "Table of Contents".
If a person wants a Load data manual, many exist, Lyman, Hornady, Speer, Sierra, Accurate/Western, Hodgdon, Lee, Nosler, on and on.
Everything in the book is arranged by Alphabet and Number.
Accurate Arms Powders come before Alcan, Alliant, Hodgdon, IMR (not Dupont), Norma, Vhitavouri, and of course Winchester who is last.
Within each Powder Maker Section, their products are Alphabet-first, Numerically second, thus, under Norma, the first entry is MRP, followed by MRP2, followed by #200 up to #2010.
Thus, if you want to know about Ramshot Tac, you go to the Western Powders section and go past Blackhorn209, past Ramshot Hunter, past Ramshot Silhouette, to Ramshot TAC.
And so on.
It is not anything "vital" to a reloading bench to make good, safe, accurate, ammo. It is however a serious compendium of knowledge about the gunpowders themselves, as I said, for the Ammo Geek in some of us.