Reloading books

cereal83 said:
I think I know what you mean now. The Lyman book only has about 10 bullets in it. Differant books will have differant loads which is good. Most of the Lymans loads are from Serria or bullets under 165 grain which I will never use. I want to buy a Nosler book now because they seem to have the best bullets from what I have read so far.
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Just checked my Lyman 48th and for the 30-06 Springfield it listed jacketed bullets up to 220gr. Although, I just noticed that the last bullet on the second page of data for the 30-06 is 165gr. ... perhaps you didn't turn the page over? :p


cereal83 said:
Well it does seem like a great program becase they can just input loads from all the books and update it once a month and everybody who has the progra will have ALL the loads from all the books but I dought they do that.
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That would violate the copyrights on the books! They can't just copy data without written permission of the copyright owner. Well... in China they can.

cereal83 said:
I looked all over my Lyman book and I never saw anywhere when it mentioned what this stuff ment.
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SD or sectional density is in the Lyman 48th on page 397. OAL is covered earlier in the manual but I don't recall seeing anything on the BC. BC is covered in the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, however.


Fudd
 
Check out this other thread about loading manuals: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97132

ElmerFudd said:
Yep. I highly recommend the Lyman 48th Edition. Very good book with lots of lead bullet loads (since they make the casting equipment). It includes pressure info also.

Also the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook is great. If you want to learn to cast your own bullets there is lots of info on casting. It has lots of rifle loads for shooting lead bullets and lots more options for handgun lead bullet data.

The Speer #13 is also good and a good read. I like the cartridge descriptions as they are interesting if you don't know anything about that cartridge. Down side is there isn't a lot of lead loads and the ones they do have for handguns they limit to about 800 fps saying something like "going faster causes barrel leading, blah, blah, blah." I don't like that as I want to know what the limit is based on pressure is and I can limit it myself with reduced loads if I so choose.

The Lee has some useful and interesting information at the start but also shows a big bias to Lee equipment (yes I do have some Lee stuff). It also has some data that makes me question it's accuracy. It'll list "86 gr. Bullet" then "86 gr. Lead Bullet" then "86 gr. Jacketed Bullet". Well, what is the "86 gr. Bullet" lead or jacketed or marshmellow? Or the 357 Magnum has a "useful case capacity is 1.15 cc" and the 38 Special has a "useful case capacity is 1.30 cc" or the 38 Special +P has a "useful case capacity is 1.18 cc". Hmm... the 38 Special has the most capacity...
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