miestro_jerry
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We all know how important the tools we use on our reloading bench arem but the best tool is to document everything you do, If you get something off the net or out of a book, put it into a 3 ring binder. There are many reloading manuals on the net, as well as tip and tricks. Many members of this forum have much information to offer that could be useful to a hand loader either now or in the future,
There is this growing thread about if you could only have one manual, I did put in there my note books. After that for me, it's the Lyman manuals, then many other manuals, but I still put information in my note books. I have a lot of information going back about 40 years or more.
Many cartridges come and go, then come around again, if you have the information it could and would help you make decisions. Such as you used to have a 375 Ultra Mag, and you know that it uses 95 grains of a certain powder, you immediately know that you can get almost 74 reloads out of a pound of powder from your notes. Is this economical for you to shoot? You can easily figure out the cost per shot if you keep such information. Is that new Ultra Mag rifle really worth it, based upon the price of the rifle verses cost of ammo.
Plus you can establish hot loads, not so hot loads. Which bullets worked the best based upon the load and the intention of that load.
Currently I have started to reload my own shot shells, I have asked a lot of questions, put the answers on paper, down loaded information about powder, hulls, wads, etc. This compilation of information has been a good teaching instrument.
Now I know what to buy so I can load for the huinting and shooting that I want to do with my shotguns, as well as decision making on buying another shotgun.
My shot shell reloading information is now in a 3 inch binder after only a few months, all of the resources on this forum really deserve a lot of credit for the help I have receieved. I have 3 generations of Lyman manuals, 4 BPI reloading manuals and some misc manuals.
All of this information ends up on a shelf and when I don't use it very much, it goes into a filing cabinet.
I keep things on the computers and like the convience, except two situations, I don't have a PC on my reloading bench and not to long ago, my main computered crashed and burned. I did have most of the information backed up on disk, During the time that I didn't have a computer, which was three days, I didn't have access to the information that was on my computer, but I did have hard copy for my reloading stuff.
As I told my engineering students many years, document everything.
Keep on loading!
Jerry
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