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Paul,
The book is titled Cast Bullets and Silhouettes sub titled (Lead Bullets and Steel Rams) by Carlton Shy Jr.
It was copyrighted by Valley Ventures, Inc Chamlee Dr Fort Valley, GA 31030 the date was 1989. This address is Carlton's old home address.
The last time I tried to contact Carlton, about 5 years ago, he was in a nursing home, after a stroke. His daughter said he was not communicating. I believe that Carlton is deceased as I have written and the mail comes back.
What Carlton did that was very different from most reloaders and editors, is he worked up loads and as a match director kept notes on his club's member shooters. He would send the folks that had guns chambered in the same cartridge the data and ask them to try the load. He would then tabulate the results. The idea was to determine a load that worked in every gun, what Carlton called his optimum load. The book contains optimum loads.
Carlton noticed a relation between powders, cast bullets and case capacity. He designed a computer program to predict and produce optimum loads for any given case capacity and then made the program adjustable so one part of it is a "What If" program that can be used to design cartridges.
Carlton had a very sharp mind with a wide spectrum of interests. He was also a true southern Christian gentleman. We spent 3 International Matches together, about 10 days each. Carlton and I were the gun tech crew, certifying guns, we had a ball doing so. One of those matches is in the Guinness Book as the largest shooting match ever held.
Ed
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