Reloading book that has most powders listed in load data?

[3006mv]

Lee uses powder manufacturers data so if conservative it's from them

[CCrawford]

How many calibers do you reload? Any rare or old and not very popular? Focus on a book that covers what you have. Do you shoot any brand(s) of bullet more? Do they publish a book?

Most of the bullet maker reloading books explain in the text up front that the powders in the load data are the best they found during their testing. They have data on much more that what they publish.

If you really want every powder/caliber combo - best just to download the free PDFs and combine the pages in a notebook by caliber. Hodgdon does publish a annual manual that has over 5K loads.

Remember, some loads would be very poor and not worth publishing. They publish what they publish for a reason. And then some books have more powders listed for X caliber, but you need Z caliber and it does not have a good selection.

Is there anything specific you are looking for?

I would refer you to the "Interest Reload Sites" sticky up at the top of the sub forum - specifically this area

Manuals/Reloading Data (links work in the sticky for each of these)
Accurate
Alliant
Applied Ballistics
Barnes
Berger
Gun Digest Books
Hodgdon
Hornady
Krause Publications
Lee
Loadbooks
Lyman
Norma
Nosler
Ramshot
Sierra
Speer
SPG
Stoeger
Swift
Vihta Vuori
Wolfe Publishing (Rifle, Handloader Magazines)
Zediker

and this index of loads and books.

I only have 116 manuals (ok, maybe more that are not in the index yet), and still do not find what I want some times. I admit my sickness and do not wish it upon others (not sure if CSA has same illness or not). I have never found literally what you describe or desire. I think you are hunting for a unicorn as Stilly said. I may be wrong and am not all knowing (just ask wife), but I have never seen nor hear of anything that is "complete load data".

Hope this helps,
Criss

[the86d]

How many calibers do you reload? Any rare or old and not very popular? Focus on a book that covers what you have. Do you shoot any brand(s) of bullet more? Do they publish a book?
...
I would refer you to the "Interest Reload Sites" sticky up at the top of the sub forum - specifically this area

Manuals/Reloading Data (links work in the sticky for each of these)
...
and this index of loads and books.

I only have 116 manuals (ok, maybe more that are not in the index yet), and still do not find what I want some times. I admit my sickness and do not wish it upon others (not sure if CSA has same illness or not). I have never found literally what you describe or desire. I think you are hunting for a unicorn as Stilly said. I may be wrong and am not all knowing (just ask wife), but I have never seen nor hear of anything that is "complete load data".

Hope this helps,
Criss

I reload Plated 9mm, and pulled M855 and M193.
I haven't seen manuals for X-Treme, or pulled .mil...
"Book of Eli, Reloading hardback"

Something static(-insensitive).

I think I will get the a Lee, and maybe a Hornady.

Thanks for the info, everyone.

[Branden967]

Try this site:

http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp

There is a lot of free information on there.

[Bigedski]

There is no one size fits all reloading manual, every time I go to a gun show or a used book store and find a manual that I dont have I buy it, in 30+years I have quite a few but I am always finding more.
You can never have to much information.

[stilly]

I reload Plated 9mm, and pulled M855 and M193.
I haven't seen manuals for X-Treme, or pulled .mil...
"Book of Eli, Reloading hardback"

Something static(-insensitive).

I think I will get the a Lee, and maybe a Hornady.

Thanks for the info, everyone.

You will NOT be sorry you got the Lee...

[xbimmers]

If I could only have one book, it would be the Lee.

[Germz]

google: "NOSLER 7TH MANUAL TORRENT" and download it. If you dont know how to torrent there are tons of youtube vids. so you win twice: you learn to torrent and you get a free manual.

[Flyin Brian]

In my opinion the Lee book is the most useful, but I am glad I have the other books and Hodgdon website to double check things and cross reference. The only thing negative about the Lee book is the "how to reload" section is written by a reloading megalomaniac (i.e.- without Lee there would be no reloading). It gets tiring reading the constant chest thumping on how your bullets are lucky to even hit the ground if you're not using their products.

I have the Hornady, Sierra, Nosler, etc and they are good but since they are written by bullet makers, they generally only cover the bullets they manufacture. I shoot a lot of Nosler, but there are really only 4 or 5 powders shown on most of their rifle bullets, so it has not been very useful.

The Lyman book is good, and does have quite a few listings for lead boolits.

[stilly]

google: "NOSLER 7TH MANUAL TORRENT" and download it. If you dont know how to torrent there are tons of youtube vids. so you win twice: you learn to torrent and you get a free manual.

hehehe, but you could do the same for the BoLee...

In my opinion the Lee book is the most useful, but I am glad I have the other books and Hodgdon website to double check things and cross reference. The only thing negative about the Lee book is the "how to reload" section is written by a reloading megalomaniac (i.e.- without Lee there would be no reloading). It gets tiring reading the constant chest thumping on how your bullets are lucky to even hit the ground if you're not using their products.

I have the Hornady, Sierra, Nosler, etc and they are good but since they are written by bullet makers, they generally only cover the bullets they manufacture. I shoot a lot of Nosler, but there are really only 4 or 5 powders shown on most of their rifle bullets, so it has not been very useful.

The Lyman book is good, and does have quite a few listings for lead boolits.

AMEN brotha! In Lee we trust, everyone else is FAIL. That is the message you get from reading the Gospel according to Richard Lee. And of course, the most ACCURATE way ever to use a dipper is to tap it once, then scrape the top with a business card (and I'm pretty sure it has to be your OWN business card)...
One thing I never quite got was that if Lee only makes things that are three times stronger then you need and not an ounce more, how is it that the Classic Cast is more HD then the Taco Supreme? (Because the Taco Supreme guys WAY overdo their products for strength...) I never did wrap mah head around that.

I summed up that book as, "We are Lee, this is who we are, this is what we do, buy our stuff, oh and here is how to reload..."