INTRODUCTION
THE big sedan slid to the curbstone, decelerating rapidly. The driver reached for the instrument panel, snapped off the ignition, the lights,and tightened up on the emergency brake. Nonchalantly he slid across the seat, opened the door, alighted and looked up at the big house sandwiched between others in the closely packed city street. A small attic window set close to the peak of the roof glowed faintly from an internal light. Something doing up there! . . . Hastily he climbed the porch stairs and let himself in with his pass key. He breezed through the house with a cheery greeting and his unasked question was immediately answered.
"Sure, he's up in the attic monkeying around as usual. Don't you gun bugs ever get tired?"
A moment later he was in the attic . . . and sure enough, "doin's were afoot. Obie was handloading. Before him on the long sturdy bench constructed by himself with its purpose in view at the time of design was a long row of assorted loading tools--FA, Pacific, and others. A small gasoline stove was roaring merrily in one corner of the neat little workshop. On it a pot of bullet metal was acquiring that "liquid" appearance.
..........that is from the "COMPLETE GUIDE TO HANDLOADING" A Treatise on Handloading for Pleasure, Economy and Utility by Philip B. Sharpe,Dedicated to Harry M. Pope(The Old Master) copyright 1937 and 1941 by Funk & Wagnalls Company.
Received this book from my Dad many years ago.......It is an interesting book with lots of history, but can be kinda "dry" reading at parts. ie When it mentions new and modern tools, I have to laugh to myself and realize just how far things have come in just a few generations!