What info to record and methods for working up loads?

Excellent pointers fellas! I'll be sure to take them into consideration one the final components show up and I can start crunching cartridges.

For info storage, curious if guys electronically log via something like an excel spreadsheet? Or binders? Or notebooks? The notebook to me would seem to be at a disadvantage simply because it would be difficult to add more papers to a certain firearm/calibre once you ran out of space.

Thanks again for the great advice!

Bill
 
Potshot21 said:
Excellent pointers fellas! I'll be sure to take them into consideration one the final components show up and I can start crunching cartridges.

For info storage, curious if guys electronically log via something like an excel spreadsheet? Or binders? Or notebooks? The notebook to me would seem to be at a disadvantage simply because it would be difficult to add more papers to a certain firearm/calibre once you ran out of space.
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Bill, I use a three ring binder for my records.
 
Likewise with the 3-ring. I have used the same one since before 1980 and have recorded a record of every cartridge I have reloaded since then, just keep adding pages when they fill up or I add a new cartridge (at one time I think I loaded 32 different cartridges and every caliber has its own page). I record all pertinent load formula/components and I record anything I notice about the load when fired such as group size (big or small) , "noticed or lack of" recoil, fowling, which rifle it was fired in, etc.

The one I use is a Lyman product and I think they still market them, I just print more forms as I need them. In a very few minutes I can research the results of every one of upwards of 80 or 90 thousand rounds loaded since before 1980
 
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