Gun Digest Book of Handgun Reloading

by Dean A. Grennell, Wiley Clapp

Track the reloading cycle from beginning to end. Topics include how to select tools, terminal ballistics of handgun cartridges, testing the reload. Loading data for many production cartridges, wildcats, more.

Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

About the author

Dean A. Grennell was an American firearms expert, writer/editor, and active science fiction fan. He was the managing editor of Gun World magazine and editor of the science fiction fanzine Grue. Grennell was born near Humboldt, Kansas, in 1923. His family moved to rural Wisconsin three years later, and he grew up on a dairy farm. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he served as an aerial gunnery instructor during World War II.

After the war, while working as a salesman for a wholesale HVAC equipment supplier, he became interested in handloading cartridges for firearms. He eventually became a recognized expert in the firearms field. In the 1950s, he began a long career as a writer on handloading and guns, serving on the staff of various firearms publications. He contributed to such publications as Gun Digest and Handloaders Digest. In 1966, he became managing editor of Gun World, working with publisher Jack Lewis. He served as managing editor of the magazine for more than three decades.

In the 1950s, Grennell also began a lifetime of activity in science fiction fandom. His best-known publication was his fanzine Grue, begun in 1953. The title Grue ("The Fan's Magazine") was a play on words for the then-popular men's magazine True,


Dean A. Grennell was eighty-nine years of age when he passed away in 2004. He fathered seven children.