How do you store your Data!!!!

[SixPointEight]

I like drawing up a load sheet


I have a few of these for each caliber I shoot. It's especially useful to have a visual reference for me. Note that these are after I've figured out a load. I then store my old loads that I don't really make, and stick to one or two loads per caliber and those are mostly memorized.

The other thing I do is make blanks with the amount of seat and crimp I want, then write the powder load on the side and store it in my reloading toolbox. I can use that blank to setup my dies very quickly if they ever are taken out of the toolhead.

I have something like your drawing too. Just don't use it as often.

I like the idea about the dummy rounds, I may have to do that too.

[dexter9659]

I use a binder with all my discovered laod data for each of my guns. I also use online, and manuals quite often. This being said, I know most of my load data be heart, which only requires me to double check my notes from time to time.

[wtkaiser]

Notes??? Who keeps notes?

[Whiterabbit]

I do. When I read stuff like that, it sounds the same to me as someone saying "who reads books anymore?" I just shake my head....

Everything I do goes in paper notes. They are the BEST for going back and referencing. Even something as silly as note layout or penmanship can jog memories better than any computer program ever will.

That being said, I also do what bill steele does and use excel. I'll often keep an entire file for one caliber though, and use different sheets for different purposes. Maybe one will be used to estimate velocities, another to convert one powder data to another powder data (which might not exist for the bullet I'm trying to use), another still will be associated with a particular bullet style.

But only when I want to crunch numbers, graph, and interpolate. Because that's the only thing excel can do better than pen and notebook.

[17+1]

I keep a notebook of loads which includes powder type, charge weight, bullet type, bullet weight, primer, case, etc...and the results I saw and which rifle I fired it from.

I also keep comeups for all the rifles, round counts, etc. in the same book.

[phish]

I keep a notebook with all my readings and update a spreadsheet when I get home. I even go as far as adding a trendline through the points to see how things look over a longer atring if ten rounds.

[thomashoward]

I have a notebook with entries and keep all my targets in an art portfolio

[EmmaGoldman]

Notebooks.

[scarville]

I use the spreadsheet from Open Office. One spreadsheet is for the load records. I have another form I transfer details from shooting a new load onto. I then link the load record to the external form.

Yeah, I am a real geek

[wtkaiser]

I forget that sarcasm just doesn't come across in text! Sorry guys, I do keep notes, handwritten and in text on computers. Sometimes I actually use it more than once, too! I'm too old to re-invent my own wheels!