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Powder manufacturers have online PDF manuals.
Speer and LEE have good manuals.
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Speer and LEE have good manuals.
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The Lee manual is Hodgdon data.
You can then get a Hodgdon magazine they publish each year for around $11 or less for anything new that comes out. If you need it.
I picked up a 9th edition Hornady for $10 after 10th edition came out and then went to their website and got the load data pages for my 62gr bullet they added in the 10th edition
For Barnes, I just get the load data off their website.
I would not buy a Lyman again unless you like reading the articles in the beginning of the book. Most of their load data is not as comprehensive as the others. Limited bullets and bullet sizes.Comment
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You can get load data off the internet from the powder manufactures websites. But for instructions on how to reload you could see if any ranges near you offer a class or watch some YouTube videos. There are a some ways you can get injured if you reload wrong.Comment
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Speer has their latest Manual out. Number 15. I started with Speer in 1982 and eventually got them all before that internet thing was invented. Great to have a Reloading Reference Library but Speer is the first I go to. Besides the recipes they have good background to create a solid foundation to experience the "Zen oh Handloading".
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I also bought the current Lee, in hardback.Comment
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As stated Lyman is an excellent manual/book.
The powder manufacturers often times change their loadings for 'old' cartridges from time to time, so if you can find some older powder manuals over time, they are good to have for 'older' cartridge loads. The internet changes yet keeps no history. Books/manuals do. I have some from the 70's and have helped many over the years in finding old loading data.
It's always a good idea to have several references for any load to assure that there are no misprints as well.Comment
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I would start with the Lyman book. It's a general reloading book and not specific to one manufacturer.If you want change you have to put in your 2 cents, you can't just sit on the sidelines and whine.Comment
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I tend to use three books
- Speer
- Sierra
- Pet Loads by Ken Waters
- Lyman Shotshell - not reloading shotgun shells yet, but got book
Speer and Sierra are a wealth of knowledge, and have up to date powders, bullets etc.
Pet Loads is dated, but is a wealth of information on how to reload. Ken actually talks about the cartridges, how he picked powders and bullets; more of the fine details that aren't in regular reloading manuals. Pet loads is his various magazine articles that were written in Handloader magazine.
I'd like to get the Lyman metallic cartridge book.Last edited by RNE228; 11-24-2018, 8:38 AM.Comment
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Is it my imagination or was a post with a bunch of PDF files deleted?
It looked like there was a lot of info there.Comment
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The Lyman's are good, I have a couple of older Speer I like and those small ones the Powder manufactures put out not sure they still print those.US Navy Retired, NRA Lifetime member. Member CRPA
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I started off with a Lee Reloading manual, I currently have that same Lee as well as two versions of the Hornady, a Lyman and the Sierra book. As well as a couple of powder manufacturer softcover books. As far as I'm concerned you can't have too many, depending on what you're doing it's nice to cross reference.NRA MEMBERComment
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