Major George Charles Nonte Jr. was an American expert on firearms and handloading. He was a prolific magazine writer and the author of more thanbooks.
Nonte was born in Monticello, Illinois, United States. He was the son of George C. Nonte Sr. . George Jr. entered the U.S. Army late in World War II and retiredyears later, in 1964, as an Ordnance Corps Major. He was stationed in Europe, the Middle East, and in the United States. Following his retirement from the Army, he sporadically did private contract consulting work for a US government agency, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, much of it overseas. Nonte authored more than a thousand magazine articles that were published in more than a dozen outdoor and gun magazines, including The American Rifleman, Guns amp Ammo, The Handloader, American Handgunner, The Rifle, Guns, and Shooting Times.
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