Reloading Manual

[JohnMOhio]

I was about to order a Sierra Manual and noticed that it was published in 2003. It seems to me that a manual this old is not very much up to date. Any suggestons?

Thanks,
John

[Litt'le Lee]

tHE ONE AND ONLY loading manual--SPEER- STARTED IT ALL-1954

[Hefights]

Its ok, its a good manual, and especially if you are going to shoot sierra bullets. The Lyman manual is a very good one. Hodgdon is also good.

[Tuna]

Out of all the manuals I have, I find the Lyman to be the best over all followed by Hornady. The one I use the least is the Speer as they have some transposed data in it. If your not up on a cartridge you may be loading you might miss the powder charges are reversed between two different bullet weights. Granted it's only on a couple of different cartridges. I don't know if they have fixed that in the later ones.

[psteinmayer]

I'm using a Hornady manual that's about 20 years old... and I'm doing just fine. My backup is the load data contained with the individual Lee die sets. The date of the manual is irrelevant as long as the data is still valid.

[BudT]

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

[JohnMOhio]

Thanks to all for your comments. I was looking for some updated info for reloading the .223/5.56 with a 1:8 twist. Most of the manuals I have (8 of them) are about 10 years old or older. In fact one, the Speer is dated 1963 and the Lyman is even older than that. I do have Hodgen, IMR and a couple of the others that fall into the 10 year age bracket. Just thought something newer might provide some new information.

Again, thanks to all.

John M.

[Parashooter]

All the major powder manufacturers/marketers have websites with reasonably current information including many of the newest powders and cartridges. Visit them to find reliable information on using their products.

http://www.alliantpowder.com/reloaders/index.aspx
http://www.accuratepowder.com/load-data/
http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp
http://www.lapua.com/en/products/rel...reloading-data
http://www.norma.cc/en/Ammunition-Academy/Loading-Data/

[joem]

Most all manufactures have load data on their web sight. Even if you have the manual it's nice to double check on line and see if there's anyy difference.

[Hefights]

There is no such thing as too much load data.