Reloading manuals?????

I've taught a few guys how to reload and just now helping another. He bought a couple reloading books and brought them over. I don't remember which ones. Anyways, he's a good friend of my brothers and my brother said he was able to grasp a lot of what I said while he was reading the manual afterwards. One was a Lyman I remember now when he asked if the trim information would be in the manual. Sadly it just had the trim to length so I explained and it went into the notebook I had him bring to keep info for that rifle. Starting his first ladder tomorrow night. It's a 20" unbraked Remington 7mm rm so I'm going to have him load 2 strings, 1 for me and I'll shoot the same ladder. Will be interesting and fun
 
The FUNDAMENTALS are crucial to reloading!

The front part of most manuals teaches these, and in my opinion are CRUCIAL to the learning curve. Hornady and Nosler are pretty good examples.

Have your person you plan to teach sit down and read the front part of the manual so he has a good understanding, knows nomenclature, understands the tools necessary, how to use those tools and execute the practice.

Once the person reads these and puts them into practice, my opinion is to slowly introduce them to upgraded techniques from an experienced hand loader.

There is SOOOOOO much information out there, it will become confusing to a beginner....

But, again.... The FUNDAMENTALS FIRST!

Just like learning any new subject!
 
Kansaswoodguy said:
You could get by with no paper manuals at all but I like them and almost walked out of the LGS with the new Sierra manual the other day if I hadn't of been spending $255 on 8lbs of powder I probably would have grabbed it.
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Sierra has a good app too, it gets updates and has all the "in front of manual" knowledge base. Not a bad price either. 👌
 
I always keep a Lyman and then will check loads against online bullet and powder manufacturers, that way I get three sources
 
I spent a few years teaching beginning and advanced reloading, bullet swaging, casting, wildcat case forming, etc in one of my past clubs and NRA events. It is always very satisfying to see people eager to learn our sport in a more in-depth passion, and to see seasoned handlloaders learn something new.

While this is the modern electronic era, I still buy the latest manuals, and have a library of varied loading, wildcatting, shooting, etc, etc manuals from many decades past. Some of the old "Ideal" (later Lyman) and other manuals and books are priceless in their old school techniques and knowledge.

Great job! Keep it up.
 
I have manual from the early 60's, and update all the time. I have found that Sierra seem to carry the most info on all the different cases out there. I save them all. Some have powders that aren't shown in the newer manuals, that still out there. You do have to watch out for twist rate changes now in the newer manual. I have a 220 swift that a 1-14 twist rate. Newer manuals are showing 1-12 rates. I noted that new Sierra Manuals are showing 55grs bullets at 3600fps, and older one's show at 3900 fps. I finally noted twist rate. The other is that manufactures that provide reloading and firearms pump up their round over others that are in the same class. The biggest thing is the compare their 26" barrel to others of 24" barrels. I use to think that's great, until you look at the details.
 
JAYgs8163 said:
The new Sierra manual is out and very good. Also I have the Lee manual and it's excellent for a beginner.
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I kept several of the older manuals for reference. Some of the older data gets pruned from newer manuals and the online data.
I may pick up a newer manual because of new cartridges or components etc.

For beginners, I recommend (and have given away several copies) the Lee Reloading Manual. It covers the basics really well and has enough cartridge data listed. If the person get through this introduction and shows a real interest in particular cartridge, I will take the next step and have them join me for a reloading session. If don't have the exact cartridge they are focused on, I demo with one of similar size and shape. If they decide they want to pursue reloading, then I will help to direct them down that path.
 
I buy every loading manual that is released, and have a folder with all the online data I can find and download. I like to compare all data for a given caliber. I also look at the pressure data both CUP and PSI. I have every Speer manual ever printed from #1 to the latest. I shoot a 256 Newton and the Speer #1 has loading data, but it is so over the top on loads that the starting loads should be considered Max! 270 Win and the 30-06 are the same.
 
HunterMann said:
I kept several of the older manuals for reference. Some of the older data gets pruned from newer manuals and the online data.
I may pick up a newer manual because of new cartridges or components etc.

For beginners, I recommend (and have given away several copies) the Lee Reloading Manual. It covers the basics really well and has enough cartridge data listed. If the person get through this introduction and shows a real interest in particular cartridge, I will take the next step and have them join me for a reloading session. If don't have the exact cartridge they are focused on, I demo with one of similar size and shape. If they decide they want to pursue reloading, then I will help to direct them down that path.
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Exactly why I mentioned one of each. The Sierra and the Lee. It's somewhat hard to find the older editions but they're out there.
 

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