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Guides — long-form chapters (14)

Armorer's Common Repairs (Homestead Gunsmithing Procedures)

This guide is a cookbook for the specific repairs a homestead armorer will actually do over a long service life. It does not replace…

Ballistics Field Reference (MOA, Mils, Drop, Wind)

This is a practical field reference for a homestead rifleman who needs to put rounds on target from 25 yards to about 600 yards with the four-gun…

Black Powder Manufacture from First Principles

Black powder is the oldest practical propellant. It has been manufactured from three ingredients — saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal — since the 13th…

Brass Case Life, Inspection, and Reloading Quality Control

Of the four basic ammunition components — brass, primer, powder, bullet — brass is the only one that the reloader buys once and uses many times. A…

Cast Bullet Alloy and Casting Safety

Jacketed bullets are a finite industrial product. In an austere or post-industrial scenario, the copper jackets around commercial bullets are…

Federal and Texas Legal Compliance for Reloading

Reloading is a legal hobby. That sentence is the headline, and most of what follows is footnotes. A homesteader in Fannin County, Texas, may sit down…

Firearms/Reloading Domain Sources, Licenses, and Copyright Flags

This file catalogues every primary source and authored document that lives inside knowledge/firearms-reloading/, along with its copyright/license…

Gunsmithing Maintenance Calendar (Per-Platform)

Firearms are mechanical devices with wear parts, consumable parts, and inspection intervals. A shooter who cleans after every range session but never…

Homestead Firearms Battery Selection

This guide is about building a coherent firearms battery for a 60-acre North Texas homestead that has to remain viable for fifty or a hundred years…

Long-Term Firearm Storage and Corrosion Control (Texas Climate)

North Texas oscillates between dry winters (RH 30-40% in January) and very humid summers (RH 60-85% in July and August), with frequent rain and…

Primer and Powder Stockpile Math

Everything else on a reloading bench is reusable, improvisable, or manufacturable. Brass is collected at the range and can be re-used ten to thirty…

Primer and Powder Storage, Shelf Life, and Safety

Almost every other component on a reloading bench can take a beating. Brass cases survive being kicked into the dirt at a range, scooped into a…

Reloading Workflow Reference (Rifle, Pistol, Shotshell)

Over a 30-year homestead horizon, reloading is not optional. Factory ammunition in .308, 9mm, or 12 gauge will become intermittently available,…

Texas Firearm Law Quick Reference (2026)

This is a plain-language reference, not legal advice. Laws change. The primary authorities are the Texas Penal Code (TPC), the U.S. Code (USC), and…

Manuals & references (12)

Beretta 90 Series M9 Operator

Reference document.

FM 23 10 Sniper Training

Reference document.

FM 23 5 M1 Garand 1940

Reference document.

FM 23 7 M1 Carbine 1942

Reference document.

FM 23 8 M14 Rifle

Reference document.

FM 3 22.9 Rifle Marksmanship

Reference document.

TC 3 22.9 Rifle Carbine 2016

Reference document.

TM 43 0001 27 Ammo Data Sheets

Reference document.

TM 9 1005 211 34 M1911A1 Pistol 1964

Reference document.

TM 9 1005 319 23P M16 M4 Armorer

Reference document.

TM 9 1275 M1 Garand Ordnance 1942

Reference document.

TM M16A2 M4 Operator

Reference document.

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