Which Reloading Manual

[phil384]

Bit the bullet and bought the Lee manual. Thanks for the advice

[Sako7mm]

I'd recommend the Hornady manual, especially for the new reloader.
You may find that the Lee one is pushing their reloading equipment a bit too heavily. The step by step description of the process in the Hornady manual certainly made things much clearer to me. Unless it's changed in the last 35 years or so(!) I'd have a look at that as well.

[anthony]

here's a some that you can download

https://ia801808.us.archive.org/15/i...d_Lee_text.pdf


http://wapenkamer.nl/wp-content/uplo...anual_2015.pdf


http://normapowder.com/wp-content/up...areloading.pdf


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ma...g+manual+pdf&*

[angrybear]

Buy the "one calibre-one book" for the cartridge & you will have the data from both multiple bullet & powder manufacturers to suit that cartridge.

[Uncle Albert]

I bought the Lee manual in preparation for getting into foxing. Although it has loads of data in it, I notice that it does not differentiate between jacketed bullets and ballistic tipped bullets. Are they treated the same or do I need to get a different manual? There is one section labelled "Frangible" bullets but that doesn't apply to all bullets.

I haven't started reloading yet as the permission fell through so I am back to square one.

It will come though.

[phil384]

I bought the Lee manual in preparation for getting into foxing. Although it has loads of data in it, I notice that it does not differentiate between jacketed bullets and ballistic tipped bullets. Are they treated the same or do I need to get a different manual? There is one section labelled "Frangible" bullets but that doesn't apply to all bullets.

I haven't started reloading yet as the permission fell through so I am back to square one.

It will come though.

I noticed that. The list shows almost entirely 'jacketed bullet' but mentions solid bullet and A-Max so I'm guessing ballistic tipped are treated the same as jacketed bullet as that's essentially what they are but with soft tips.

Also, I may have made a boo-boo in buying N150 powder which is more suited to heavier bullets. I really want it as a fox round so bullet weights up to 80gr would be preferable but N150 doesn't appear in the list until 77gr upwards whereas N140 appears from 58 gr upwards.

You live and learn. And spend money