Anyone remember George C. Nonte jr?

[41Dude]

He was the author of many firearm books.
He had one tip that stuck in my mind.
He wrote if YOU HAD to. You could reuse
primers. What the heck.
Take a spent primer, remove from shell, remove anvil, flatten cup, carefully scrape
a strike anywhere match head into cup, replace anvil, seat primer back into shell.
I hope I am NEVER that hard up. But if I had to :D
What weird things have YOU learned?

 

[Dan in MI]

I have his pistolsmithing book.

A few years ago when primers were unobtanium and what you cold find highly overpriced a local guy was sharing how to reload primers. It was pretty interesting.

 

[Tenbore]

He wrote the book, " Modern Handloading". It was my first primer into reloading. I still have it on my shelf.

 

[tazbigdog]

I remember him from his 1980’s books!

 

[Watertender]

I have a couple of George Nonte books. I think I read something about him and information about the assassination of John F Kennedy

 

[dobegrant.45]

I have several of his books, he was a good writer.

 

[41Dude]

I have several of his books, he was a good writer.

I am 99% sure this is the book I owned many years ago.
I was lucky to find a used copy from an online bookstore.

 

[dobegrant.45]

Here are a few, love the Handgun Hunting book with Lee Jurassic

 

[Johnnu2]

I remember him...........

J.

 

[Tenbore]

I just remembered, I have his Pistolsmithing book too!

 

[contender]

I too have some of his books. Yep,, I remember him.

 

[sceva]

He had a great handlebar Mustache

 

[usmc69]

I have several of his books.

 

[rugerguy]

I recall one of his first pistolsmithing books, the cover was of a Colt Python and it was a reversed ( misprint) the cylinder latch was pictured on the right side of the gun, opposite of the book cover pictured above...yes lots of good information to be had, sorry I sold most of my books the past few months emptied two large book cases:(

 

[badguybuster]

I made a few primers to try using black powder. It worked....barely. Ignition was very mild and full burn of the powder was sporadic but id did work

 

[sceva]

I recall an article in Handloader magazine way back when Dave Wolfe still published it; something to the effect of Mary Pickford powder. It was about using anything they could find to reload and keep shooting / hunting. Primers remanufactured using kitchen matches, and taking old celluloid movie film, cutting it in sections and putting them in a vice then taking a rasp to it so they could use it as a crude smokeless powder.

 

[reuben_j_cogburn]

He had a great handlebar Mustache

I wouldn't call it great...... unique...... maybe...... ;)