reloading manuals

[sammie white]

i have misplaced my older reloading manual from mid 90s. if anybody has one and dont use it ,i am willing to purchase it.dont like new manuals, loads are to conservative.are give me info where to find another.i only load for 243win.maybe someone could print me some loads using 100 gr bullets .

 

[kidsoncoffee]

Ive got the 49ed lyman. What powder you using?

 

[M.O.A.]

http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp

Every powder Mfg. publishes load data.

 

[sammie white]

i am using 414 with 100 gr bullet

 

[JohnAL]

Current manuals are not necessarily more conservative. Powder characteristics change over the years. Pressure testing methods are much better now. Some old load data tested by CUP was found to be off with modern electronic testing.

You should use old manual data with old stock powder and new manuals with new powder.

 

[dead-bird]

Try eBay.

 

[JohnAL]

I have Speer, Hodgdon, Hornady, and Sierra manuals from the early 70s. If you want I'll copy the .243 data from them.

 

[sammie white]

yes hornandy if you can send to sammiewhite76@yahoo.com

 

[JohnAL]

You have mail. You may be disappointed. They did not give us much to work with back then. Not many powders and only 4 bullet selections.

 

[sammie white]

john al thanks a lot for data the loads have changed,pretty close to steves pages on most, some of his was way out there.

 

[JohnAL]

No problem.