Making Combustible Revolver Cartridges, by Hugh T. Knight, Jr.

I am excited to announce that I have just published a new book entitled Making Combustible Revolver Cartridges.  The book is not a historical survey of revolver cartridges—for that Roundball to Rimfire remains the critical work—but rather a “how to” guide showing how to make ammunition for cap and ball revolvers and the packaging for it.  In it, I demonstrate how to recreate five different kinds of historically accurate combustible cartridges for cap and ball revolvers, including nitrated paper cartridges, skin cartridges, and compressed powder cartridges.  I also show how to make a variety of different kinds of cartridge packets for carrying those cartridges, just as it was done during the nineteenth century.  In addition, the book explores casting bullets, black powder choices and measurement, bullet grease, and more!  Lavishly illustrated with almost 200 pictures and with highly detailed, step-by-step directions, this book is a must for any reenactor or black powder enthusiast.

The book is perfect bound soft cover in an 8.5x11 inch format.  It is 146 pages in length and has many full-color photographs.  It has been published through Lulu.com, an on-demand publisher, but will shortly also be available from many online retailers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others after it has had time to work through their procurement process, but that will be several weeks after the date of this announcement.

The book can be purchased immediately from Lulu.com (my preferred vendor since I make a bit more from them) by clicking on the following link:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/hugh-knight/making-combustible-revolver-cartridges/paperback/product-w4evg2r.html?page=1&pageSize=4

As an independent author not affiliated with any of the major publishing houses, I would really appreciate it if anyone who reads and finds value in this book would please leave a review about it, that really helps with books like this.

Here is a preview of some of the pages from the book to give a sense of what it’s like.