Useful books?

[airborne1]

Would a book like Sam Fadalas "Blackpowder Handbook" be useful for someone new to the sport like me?

Anything better out there that can be suggested?

I would be interested in loading data also.

Thanks for any replies.

 

[Alden]

OMG, yes re: Blackpowder Handbook. LOL Such might be like the second to get and if you get only one book the FIRST.

There is that other "basic" book and I have sent you a separate message to, coincidentally, get them both, and a couple of others, inexpensively.

 

[Katahdin]

Try this one, "Black Powder Guide,The Complete Guide to Muzzle-Loading ,Rifles,Pistols and Shotguns-Flintlocks and Percussion. by George C. Nonte,jr. mine was from the

Stoeger Publishing Company
55 Ruta Court
South Hackensack,NJ 07606
might check www.ABE.BOOKS.COM or one of the others mine has a second printing date of 1978/first 1969,Still lots of good information... I have both, the one you listed and the one I listed,,I like the one I listed more, lots of data.Sam's book lots of basics but still a good read

 

[Pete G]

Sam Fadala mostly wrote during the time period when Muzzleloading was trying to break into the mainstream of shooting sports. Most shooting mags usually carried a story about black powder and there were extensive advertising in the big name gun magazines also. Consequently a lot of writers were trying to make ML ballistics look close to smokeless cartridge loading guns. This was also a time before extensive pressure testing had been done and there was a prevailing thought that a muzzleloader cannot be overloaded; excess powder would just be blown out of the barrel as unburnt granules. Consequently there were recommendations for loads that were just stupid crazy.

If you do get anything written during this time period, take any load data with a grain of salt, and don't try to propel any conical bullet to 2000 FPS. :shocked2:

 

[necchi]

A lot of people forget,,
But check out your local Library, Books for free.
If you know the name of your library, most have the files on-line now and you can search what they have before setting foot in the place.
I find it handy to actually walk into my library and I have a library card.

 

[airborne1]

The link doesn't work. Thanks for the reply though!

 

[airborne1]

They have done the same thing with bows. Fifteen hears ago I got to the point where I no longer enjoyed shooting compound bows and quit hunting for ten years. Then, I got a long bow that I absolutely love to shoot and hunt with and I'm not looking back!

 

[airborne1]

Great advice and it was my first choice! If my local library does not have a book, they will get it from another library and call me when it is in. After seeing and reading the book, I then decide if it is a must have, and if so, I will buy!

 

[coloradoclyde]

There is more information on this forum than there is in any book that I have read... :grin:

 

[USMA65]

Do you have documentation for that? :rotf:

 

[will5a1]

Besides the Lyman Blackpowder Handbook consider some fun reading - Foxfire 5 is great, with a number of chapters devoted to muzzleloading rifles. Ned Roberts "The Muzzle-Loading Caplock Rifle" provides some interesting perspective and history, it is available from the NMLRA. I also enjoyed Cline's "The Muzzle-Loading Rifle, Then and Now", also available from the NMLRA.

 

[Naphtali]

Your most useful primary book will be Muzzle Loading Shooting and Winning with the Champions, Published by Powder, Patch and Ball, Friendship, IN (1973). It is a series of interviews and/or articles by premier muzzleloading and buckskinning authorities of the 1940s through date of publication. Pretty much any topic you might want to obtain pertinent information is found here.

I own two copies.

Hope this helps.

 

[Alden]

The link doesn't work. Thanks for the reply though!

I Private-Topic'd you again -- dumb luck I came back here and saw this.