Reloading books

[marcos0901]

I have been reloading for 7-8 years now. The one thing I have never had is a good book. I have always gone off Hodgdon online data or data from on here. I want to get 3-4 books. A couple updated versions for sure and the other one or two don't really matter. What do yall suggest?

 

[338 dude]

I have been reloading for 7-8 years now. The one thing I have never had is a good book. I have always gone off Hodgdon online data or data from on here. I want to get 3-4 books. A couple updated versions for sure and the other one or two don't really matter. What do yall suggest?

 

[ByronP]

Midway USA has just about all the books you need I have pretty much all of them but if you one book that has alot of info is Modern Reloading by Richard Lee $21.49

 

[Jester560]

ABCs of Reloading is a must have for any reloading library.

 

[Critter Picker]

All the bullet manufacturers have a manual. Speer,Sierria, Hornady, Nosler, plus Lyman and Lee. They are all good.

 

[Critter Picker]

I've got a start.

 

[marcos0901]

Midway USA has just about all the books you need I have pretty much all of them but if you one book that has alot of info is Modern Reloading by Richard Lee $21.49

I have it in my cart now. Found it on midsouth for 17.99

 

[slv hunter]

Get several and read them all. Sierra's accuracy loads are usually pretty close for the older cartridges but has no new ones. Speer is very conservative for the cartridges I load. You can never have to many for a reference.

 

[dfanonymous]

Maybe which ever up to date Lyman book is out. They are vast and usually affordable.

But I don't really bother anymore. I've wasted money on Hornady books, since I use a lot of Hornady bullets, and you know, Hornady is pretty conservative in their numbers.

I don't use any other components in the manual except for the bullets and when it's all said and done, I'm no where near where the manual suggest. I just out grow the books way too quickly.

I keep a Lyman around for other things, like random cartridges I don't load as much and so forth.

 

[marcos0901]

Get several and read them all. Sierra's accuracy loads are usually pretty close for the older cartridges but has no new ones. Speer is very conservative for the cartridges I load. You can never have to many for a reference.

I figured I would get Hornady's and Berger's first since I use them the most. Then get some others

 

[marcos0901]

Maybe which ever up to date Lyman book is out. They are vast and usually affordable.

But I don't really bother anymore. I've wasted money on Hornady books, since I use a lot of Hornady bullets, and you know, Hornady is pretty conservative in their numbers.

I don't use any other components in the manual except for the bullets and when it's all said and done, I'm no where near where the manual suggest. I just out grow the books way too quickly.

I keep a Lyman around for other things, like random cartridges I don't load as much and so forth.

Ok thank you for the advise. Most of my loads are all very close besides bullets. My powder charge doesn't change much. The biggest reason I want one is that I started loading for friends and new cartridges. I feel like it will be easy to just get in the book and see the top couple powders. Then I can come on here and dig through pet loads

 

[ARlife4me]

what brand do you shoot and how many different cartridges do you reload for? if only 1 or 2 then there's plenty of online data from many manufacturers (speer, nosler, barnes, lapua via vv powders which has many different bullet brands included and a few other i don't recall. you can email sierra and berger for specific data.

 

[K.E.C. Darkside]

I have been reloading for 7-8 years now. The one thing I have never had is a good book. I have always gone off Hodgdon online data or data from on here. I want to get 3-4 books. A couple updated versions for sure and the other one or two don't really matter. What do yall suggest?

What bullets manufacturer do you use most. That's the manual to get also.

 

[Mblackmon4]

I'm a big fan of the Hodgdon annual manual, they have most of the modern cartridges and they stay up to date with powders as they evolve, 45gr of h4350 from 1985 is probably different from today. Sierra and Speer and Hornady are my next suggestions