26 • Zips, Pipes, and Pens presses and dies to reload cartridges to decapping and repriming and shaping the primer cup's match-head paste and then filling the cartridge with a projectile from round stock of a caliber approximating the original. 3. Cartridges tailor-made to fit a particular weapon that is available but for which no issue ammunition is available, e.g., a Vietcong cartridge made of copper tubing with a plaster piece soldered to the base and a primer seated in the hole. 4. Subloads, which are cartridge cases of smaller diameter than the available weapon that are made to fit by wrapping tightly with paper, plastic tape, or foil to thicken. 5. Overloads, where the barrel is larger than the cartridge chamber, in which case the bullet is pulled and a larger projectile, e.g., marble, ball-bearing, lead slug, etc. is muzzleloaded onto the cartridge case. This type is common with homemade bolt-action breechloading weapons. 6. Rimfire cartridges, which are the most common of all types of loads and are preferred. The advantage is that the rim holds the cartridge in place while the striker or hammer hits the primer, which circles the rim. Conscription is a way of growing up in the Third World, as this youngster symbolizes ... armed with a very lethal homemade zip gun using a spring, a nail, and gas pipe to fire a 7.65mm pistol cartridge. (Courtesy of Max Sink)