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Although published in 2006, this edition is still very useful because it contains precise dimensional drawings for each cartridge.Buy it before it disappears from the market.
For the most part, the cartridges unlisted can be considered "Military grade" but they can still be acquired legally on the civilian market. But one fact that bothered me while reading is that the units used to denote different measurements are not marked. When reading through this book, I found much of the information to be quite helpful. An alright book that takes on the massive undertaking of gathering up information on the world's plentiful ammunition cartridges, I feel that this book overlooked some very important and common cartridges. At first I was thrown off by this, as I am used to the metric SI standard, rather than the Imperical Standard of measurements. Another fact that irked me, but wouldn't stop me from buying the book, was that certain cartridges are unlisted in this book, some very old and others radical and new. I hope that in a later edition, said problems would be fixed. Beyond that, this book is a good reference for any gun hobbyists out there.
Perfect reference piece for the firearms historian, reloader or shooter. This book will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about cartridge use and development. Reloaders will appreciate the load data and ballistics information. I highly recommend this book.
Cartridges of the World is great but the copy that the company shipped me was in very poor condition. They said it was like new. I would not order form this company again.
Cartridges of World 11th Edition follows on previous editions of the same, they have updated the rounds that have came into existance since those editions were published, I was interested in what they had to say about the new WSM's and the Remington Ultra rounds. I was happy with the book when I reviewed it as I have been with the past issues I have been able to go through.
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