Metric Reloading Kits & Manuals

sugb said:
http://www.lntrade.dk/pdfdoc/Vihtavuori_ladedata.pdf
This is a link to a reloading manual that lists in bot metric and imperial, the Hornady manual does not use the metric system at all.
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Thank you for this.


BP7 said:
wow. who peed in your cornflakes this morning? i was genuinely asking why the unit of measure in and of itself is something you wish to avoid, or rather utilize a different unit of measure that has its roots in a different system.

hey, you're free to do whatever the hell you want. measure your cartridge OAL in parsecs for all i care, i just asked why the fact that the unit commonly accepted is such a problem. i mean, if the unit of grains had its source in metric, but was still called a grain, would this thread exist???
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As I said, if you cannot provide the simple answer to the question at hand, it is ok. Just move along. You and others have expressed your opinions. The sarcasm and smartassery isn't needed...
 
If you remember that 1 gram = 15.43 grains, you can measure your charges in Metric and convert readily available data.
 
"...in metric or is it imperial..." It's neither. Metric weights and measures are not used Stateside or anywhere but Europe, I think. And grains are not an Imperial unit of measure. So don't even try to convert what you see in the manuals. Nearly all of which come from the States.
"...they don't use metric at all..." Except for money. It's always been metric. snicker.
 
Non-metric units, whether you call them Imperial, US Customary, avoirdupois or whatever, are obsolete. The relatively difficult calculations and inconsistent measurement methods have led every country in the world, save three, to officially abandon the older systems. Of the three countries that still use non-metric measurements, two of them (Liberia and Myanmar) are among the poorest and most technologically backward nations on earth. The US has been struggling with declining competitiveness for decades, and the writing is on the wall. It has occurred to me that a president like Obama could easily choose to make a legacy by announcing in his final year a program to officially adopt (for the second time) the metric system in the US. Much of US industry is already operating in metric anyway (they realized years ago they had to in order to compete internationally), so the transition may be disruptive to grocery shoppers, but it wouldn't impact the economy negatively at all.

I consider it a very poor reflection on Canadians that 40 years after we officially adopted metric, most of the citizenry have yet to really embrace it. I use metric in all my activities like cooking and home renovation projects, and I didn't see any reason for reloading to be any different. And if I can blaze a little ground to help fellows like M16LR.50 along and maybe speed up the conversion away from archaic and inexplicable units of measurements, so much the better.
 
I just use whichever is most efficient - and when it comes to reloading or buying lumber, US imperial is what is used so I roll with that. No point trying to convert to metric for myself if the industry as a whole isn't.

There's more important things in life than being 100% metric.
 
0.1 grains = 0.006479891 grams
The problem with working in grams is that first you have to have a scale that is accurate to 5 thousandths of a gram. Your going to need a scale that reads in micrograms. I guess that you could covert all of your measurements, but unless you like calculating every powder charge from every manual you look at except the one metric manual you happen to find, your gonna get tired of it. As was said above, you never have to deal with fractions and all that changes are a few unit names. Reloading is complicated enough for a newbie and to add calculation error into the mix is a recipe for lost fingers.
 
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