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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Still a major, but disappointing, work
By Gideon
I am a scientist who has edited scientific journals and trade magazines in agriculture for almost 40 years and was assistant publisher for a popular publisher. I have authored, co-authored, or edited over two dozen books and written over 600 popular magazine and newspaper pieces. I have hunted avidly for more than 50 years in the east and the west and was a registered professional hunting guide and outfitter in northern Maine for several years. I am not a ballistician but basically just a plain old gun crank who gets crankier when he shells out good money for a book like this. Those are my credentials.
I knew Cartridges of the World would become a classic when I purchased the 1st edition in 1965. The 12th edition is a distinct disappointment. Mind you, I consider it still the single most comprehensive book on cartridges extant and I would recommend others purchase it as well should they have need for the vast amount of information it contains. But there are major editorial oversights and a great deal of inconsistancies in format and layout. Here're some examples.
1) The forward to a book is usually written by some extant well known person but the forward to the 12th edition is attributed to Mr. Barnes who died in 1992. Therefore, the latest edition for which it could have been prepared is the 7th. More troubling, the forward mentions the 11th edition, which appeared in 2006. Either Mr. Barnes had extraordinary foresight or someone else wrote part of the text but there is no attribution of this person, a major breach of editorial protocol. A similar problem occurs in Chapter 11, which states the chapter was written by Mr. Barnes "with additional text" by Steve Comus. But Mr. Comus' additions are not attributed to him, making it difficult to determine who wrote what. Even worse, the introduction to Chapter 4 is attributed to Mr. Barnes "with additional text by S.S." but we are not told who "S.S." is. Similar difficulties in attibution occur in most of the individual cartridge entries, so the reader must ask whose opinions and technical data are being expressed, Mr. Barnes' or one of the many editors and co-editors over the years. There are many entries where the author steps out and says things like "I believe such and such...:" or "It is my opinion that ...." but again, the reader has no way of telling who the "I" is. That may not matter to many readers, but it does to me.
2) Temporal problems in the text abound, that is, it is difficult to determine when a statement was made. For example, statements like "This [cartridge] is now becoming more popular." or "This cartridge is now offered by only one manufacturer." are important statements but useless unless the reader knows in which edition they first appeared. Also the use of the words "currently" or "at this time" are useless without qualifying dates. What was true for the 1st edition written nearly 50 years ago is likely not true for the 12th edition. Statements like this ought to be updated or at least it ought to be indicated when they were made. For example, the text for the .35/30-30 reads "Recently, there has been a rebirth of interest....", then cites a 1976 work. Those words are now at least 35 years old, which in my book disqualifies them from being "recent". This statement at least gives an applicable year but it ought to have been updated with what present interest is in this caliber. Similar temporal difficulties occur in the entry for the .250 Savage, the text of which states that cartridges with the 87 grain and 120 grain bullets are no longer factory loaded while the ballistic table at the end of the entry lists them as being factory loaded. The text for the .30-40 Krag indicates that "the 180 grain is still factory loaded" while the table shows that the 220 grain is also factory loaded. Technically this statement is correct but it can confuse many nimrods, implying that one factory load is available, then stating that two are available.
3) I have always enjoyed reviewing the photos of each cartridge but the book is inconsistant in their use. Photos are posted for many but unfortunately not for all cartridges. The .370 Sako Magnum and many others have no photos. Inconsistency indicates poor editing and it occurs far too often in this edition. Even worse, it is a mortal sin to dupe the reader or to take poorly conceived shortcuts. If neither intent is valid, then at least this exemplifies very poor editing. I am talking here about use of the same photos to "illustrate" different cartridges. Examples include the same photo to illustrate the .307 Win. and the .308 Win., even though the .307 Win. is a rimmed cartridge; the 38-40 and the .378 Weatherby Mag.; the .338-06 and the .338 Rem. Ultra Mag.
4) When a cartridge is both a military and a sporting cartridge it is a tough call to make on which chapter to place it in. The editors over the years have placed them in both chapters to avoid making that call. I suggest the next editor make that tough call and not duplicate their entries but rather include both military data and civilian data in one entry to save duplication, space, and costs. A simple line in the off chapter directing the reader to the descriptive chapter as was done in the 12th edition for the .405 Win.is sufficient and appropriate. This is especially true when the data in two entries are essentially the same, as for the 6mm Lee Navy. The .30-40 Krag entries occur in both European and American cartridge chapters and the .303 British data in both British and American cartridge chapters.Other entries include those for the 7mm Mauser, the 6 mmm Lee Navy, the .256 Win. Mag., the .30 Carbine, the .416 Rigby, and the .30-06, all of which appear twice, and the 8 mm Mauser and the .303 British, each of which appears three times. It is an interesting inconsistency that both the .30-40 Krag and the .30-06 are listed both under Military and Sporting cartridges but the venerable .45-70 Gov. is listed only under Sporting cartridges. I wonder what the American military used between 1873 and 1892?
5) There is a 23 page glossy insert near the back of the book. Use of costly glossy paper is generally reserved for printing photos, and this insert certainly does that. The articles on Mobilubricant and Cartridge Identification are interesting and useful to the general reader but I question the necessity of printing 13 pages on new products in a publication like this. The information is useful for sure, but the venue may not be appropriate. Of course, it may have been politically expedient to do so.
6) The cartridge dimensional tables that appear at the end of each chapter are useful but uselessly duplicated at the end of the book. The combined 21 pages of what looks like 8 point font at the end of the chapters are duplicated in 40 pages of 12 point font and expanded text blocks at the end of the book. Combined then, they account for 61 pages of duplicated information. It would be far more cost-effective to delete the chapter tables, reduce the font, and include the information only in the end tables. And while the publisher is about it the tables need careful editing, though the frustrating column misalignments in many end-of-chapter entries, such as the .30 Carbine, 7x64 Brenneke, .338 Lapua, .375 Win, .408 Cheytac, and the .450 Marlin thankfully have been corrected in the end tables. Also inconsistant is the inclusion of 2 pages of external ballistics tables for the British cartridges at the end of that chapter for no such tables for any other cartridges.
7) The index is just south of a disaster. Its introduction indicates that entries are made according to increasing caliber but it appears that it was constucted according to increasing caliber within chapters. This makes it ridiculously difficult to use. In addition, there are instances where calibers are out of synchrony. For example, the 3mm Kolibri, 4.25 Liliput Auto, and the 4.85 mm British are inserted between the 38-90 and the .40 Smith and Wesson. The last time I figured it these three calibers were nowhere near the .38s. Another inconsistency occurs in the obsolete handgun calibers which, in the text begin with the 2.7 Kolibri but in the index begin with the 5 mm Bergmann. The first three obsolete handgun calibers listed in the text chapter are listed with the obsolete rifle calibers in the index.
8) Pagination is a problem. Look for pages 422 and 423 inserted after page 439 in the text.
9) It is a huge disappointment to me that the line drawings of the cartridge dimensions are no longer included. My suspicion is that it is a whole lot less expensive to include said dimensions in a table than it is to hire an artist to draw them. Still, the tables omit much good information such as shoulder angles that was formerly included in the drawings.
I still maintain that this is a classic book that contains a wealth of information but it is in need of a thorough editing. As with any book that has gone through 12 editions with many editors involved, material tends to get cut and pasted from one edition to the next and new material added that may repeat or contradict the older material. Without a good editor to weed out material no longer applicable the book becomes an editorial mess. Witness this 12th edition. As the book becomes longer and companies look for ways to reduce publication costs they impose restrictions on editors that are sometimes not in keeping with readers' wishes. I suspect one of these was the eliminaton of dimensional line drawings. But in what seems a contradiction the ballistics tables are duplicated. This, along with including advertisements, is an easy way to increase page counts and make the book look hefty enough to justify the increased cost of the book.
We Americans have become a great finger-pointing people, so who do we beat up for the sloppy editing? Editor Simpson is the highest visable man on the flagpole so he makes a clear target. The editorial system usually begins with associate editors who are charged with identifying and correcting technical problems. They then pass the information to the editor, who checks to be sure the problems have been corrected. If the associate editor fails in his/her job, problems may not be corrected unless the editor takes it upon himself to do their job as well as his own. If it does work, the editor makes the corrections and passes them on to staff editors at Gun Digest. If they fail to make the corrections, then the errors remain unless the editor re-reads the entire manuscript to double check on the mistakes. Mistakes in the tables like column misalignments and mistakes in cartridge photo duplications are problems with the layout staff and often by the time the work gets to this point the editor has nothing more to do with it. Indexing is often subbed out and the index does not appear until just before the book goes to the printer. The indexing in this edition is called "first line" indexing (read mimimal indexing) and it shows. Since this is a separate operation the editor may not even see the index before printing. So, there is some justification for not blaming Mr. Simpson for these errors. Nevertheless, he is the editor. When I edit books I do my best to second guess everyone, to double and triple check everything because it is my name at the top. I am the highest man on the flagpole and an easy target for those that shoot from the hip. Mr. Simpson should have done this as well. But I think the real ones to blame are the editorial staff at Gun Digest. This edition is disgraceful in its editorial and make-up sloppiness and it is their publication, their name, that suffers. Is there really any reason to put out a new edition every couple of years, or is it simply to add fluff to previous editions to justify doing so? Gun Digest needs to take its time, do a thorough editing of the work, then put out a grand, high-class and artful 13th edition...with cartridge diagrams if it wishes to rgain its credibility.
45 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
COTW - Almost as much wrong as right
By E. Singleton
Probably the most quoted source for cartridges, but has a great deal of obsolete and inaccurate information. To begin, the cover claims a "complete and illustrated reference for over 1,500 cartridges", yet there are barely over 900 and several of these have no illustrations. Statements like "turn of the century" refer to 1900 - not 2000. "Recent 6mm cartridges" refers to those developed in the mid 1950s - not the ones from the past 15 years. Much of the loading data is from the 60s and 70s. There are a number of factual flaws that continue to appear with each new edition and nothing seems to be done to correct them. For example one Russian military cartridge designation is 7.62x54R - not 7.62x53R (7.62x53R is the designation used for Finland cartridges with smaller diameter bullets). The 340 Weatherby brass is not soft and it would be a stupid idea to substitute 8mm Remington brass (does it even make sense that 340 brass from Norma would be soft when none of the other cartridge brass they produce for Weatherby is?). There is also a statement on the 243 Winchester that provides no value; "...reputation for erratic performance" (the actual issue is that reduced charges of slow burning power can produce high pressure.) A table of dimensions replaces cartridge diagrams that were in previous versions. Unfortunately they don't include critical dimensions like base to shoulder length or shoulder angle. Both the 11th and 12th editions prominently display Hornady on the front and back cover and identify some of Hornady's achievements like light magnums and LeverRevolution cartridges that greatly extend the capabilities of lever action cartridges. Yet they completely neglect to include this information with the actual cartridges. While a small part of the older content has been updated, most has not. It appears all that is done is they add a new special interest chapter of about 25 pages that replaces the one in the previous edition, add new cartridges when they go into production and call it complete.
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
12th edition not up to standard
By David Riddle
Frank Barnes's 6th edition of this book had photos of guns that used specific cartridges. Although this edition says it has photos of guns, it really contains none. Typographical errors are on almost every page. Some cartridges listings contain the wrong photo. For example, the 38-40 on page 77 has the same photo as the 378 Weatherby on page 76. Any time the .30 180 Scirocco bullet is mentioned, 3250 fps is listed as the muzzle velocity, no matter how ridiculous, like the Remington Short Action Ultra Mag on page 54. Layne Simpson is named as the editor and a poor job of editing it is, Mr. Simpson. You know, you trust people and then they sell this trash.
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