A detailed look at the most important questions concerning ballistics and bullets. Description of bullets for police, military, sport and hunting, their specific ballistic properties and how they work in the target. From the contents: Introduction to the history of ballistics; internal ballistics; barrel oscillations; external ballistics; construction and manufacture of projectiles; effectiveness and impact of projectiles; hunting ballistics; special projectiles; measuring and testing; ballistics programmes; technical terms; formulae; appendix and addresses.