Prior to the mass distribution of self-contained metallic cartridges, reloading tools were an indispensable, if not essential part of the shooters equipment. This book is a visual and informational study of the wide variety of reloading tools manufactured by arms companies, individual gun-makers and firms devoted solely to the production of sportsman's accessories. Volume 1 is devoted to the products of the Ideal Manufacturing Company; the Bridgeport Gun Implement Company; those for Ballard and Marlin Rifles; D. Brown's Variform Reloader for the Bullard rifle;the Massachusetss Arms Company (Maynard rifles); J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company; and the Providence Arms & Tool Company. 314pp.