Western Powders Handloading Guide,1st Edition. ?review?

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Thinking of buying this. I find manuals useful in reloading. I am an OG or a Fudd depending on who you ask, but I do use online reloading info also.I find it helpful to compare published recommendations side to side when working up a new load. I am interested in the opinion of anyone who has seen this volume . My question is whether it adds something to the Western Powders online guide which would warrant the $$.

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I don't know? I have a small collection of most of the Nosler, Speer, Hornady and other maker's "old" manuals - sometimes there is data for chamberings that are no longer listed - but is likely that the powders used back then are no longer the powders we get today. And many powders common today, did not exist "back then". Several years ago, I printed off the Western Powders Reloading and Load Data Guide Edition 5.0 - I see a fairly large notice on page 1: "NOTE - Load data in this guide supersedes all previous Accurate and Ramshot Load Data. Always use latest Load Data". I am pretty sure that Edition 6.0 (or higher) is now shown on their website.

So, I do appreciate the curiosity to see what they used to list in Edition 1.0. Up to you, I guess, whether that curiosity is worth the cost that you are looking at - the information in Edition 6.0 (at least) is on their website, for free...

FYI - verifying with multiple manuals - there are also typo's and errors in some on-line stuff and in some manuals - for example - in particular, for 7mm STW - we found that they have listed the same values for their 175 grain bullets as for their 160 grain bullets with H1000 powder - and the error carries over to the Nosler 9 book - can see when comparing to earlier books - is how we found that - a correspondent was getting very sticky bolt lift using Nosler on-line data at Start load - what they show today as "Start" is higher than multiple of their previous books show as "Max" for 175 bullets and H1000 powder. Also went through similar use of that powder and bullet weight from Hornady, Speer and Sierra - got us to be wondering why such "exuberant" numbers, for a Start Load in the Nosler on-line data listing. I notified Nosler - have never received a reply. Easiest explanation for me is some clerk or typist somewhere pasted and copied a wrong table - I do not know...
 
I don't know? I have a small collection of most of the Nosler, Speer, Hornady and other maker's "old" manuals - sometimes there is data for chamberings that are no longer listed - but is likely that the powders used back then are no longer the powders we get today. And many powders common today, did not exist "back then". Several years ago, I printed off the Western Powders Reloading and Load Data Guide Edition 5.0 - I see a fairly large notice on page 1: "NOTE - Load data in this guide supersedes all previous Accurate and Ramshot Load Data. Always use latest Load Data". I am pretty sure that Edition 6.0 (or higher) is now shown on their website.

So, I do appreciate the curiosity to see what they used to list in Edition 1.0. Up to you, I guess, whether that curiosity is worth the cost that you are looking at - the information in Edition 6.0 (at least) is on their website, for free...

FYI - verifying with multiple manuals - there are also typo's and errors in some on-line stuff and in some manuals - for example - in particular, for 7mm STW - we found that they have listed the same values for their 175 grain bullets as for their 160 grain bullets with H1000 powder - and the error carries over to the Nosler 9 book - can see when comparing to earlier books - is how we found that - a correspondent was getting very sticky bolt lift using Nosler on-line data at Start load - what they show today as "Start" is higher than multiple of their previous books show as "Max" for 175 bullets and H1000 powder. Also went through similar use of that powder and bullet weight from Hornady, Speer and Sierra - got us to be wondering why such "exuberant" numbers, for a Start Load in the Nosler on-line data listing. I notified Nosler - have never received a reply. Easiest explanation for me is some clerk or typist somewhere pasted and copied a wrong table - I do not know...

I suspect no reply from Nosler is because their lawyers told them not to;)
 
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