Re-loading online...

[petemacsydney]

When you are re-loading just one caliber, i struggle with spending a bucket load on books that cover a whole bunch of stuff i probably don't need. Maybe long term i will invest, but for now i want to satisfy my needs more cheaply (but safely).

I'm kinda hoping when i get to buying powers, bullets etc that i'll be able to get sufficient data from the bullet/powder manufacturer online. Obviously i don't want to trust someone's recommendation alone, but i guess the question is, will i be able to serve myself online sufficiently? i know there are some sites with data, but is it really enough to self serve your own loads?

It just feels like the book thing is just another way to suck money out of us. For most of my other hobbies i would never need buy a book.. but then again, my other hobbies don't generally have a tendency to explode if i stuff up! well... most of them don't...

[Techc]

How close are you to buying all the stuff?

If you can post some info, I'm sure heaps of guys here can give you answers and you can corroborate online with manufacturer webpages and such.

If you're only reloading for one calibre there won't be that much information.

What calibre, what powder, what weight bullet etc.

Tell us what you've got and we'll tell you what we know.

[Aster]

All of the information you need can be confirmed online.

ADI publish data for all loads and give a starting and max load for the cartridge and a range of bullets.

COAL and seating depth can be confirmed in tonnes of places from cartridge and rifle makers.

Resizing your brass is pretty straight forward.

For a single modern cartridge you shouldn't have any trouble online I wouldn't think as there is a wealth of knowledge floating around here and elsewhere.

[petemacsydney]

Nice, thanks peeps.

I broke in my Tikka T3 308 Varmint on the weekend with some factory federal premium 308 130g. I plan to buy a bunch of this stuff as she shoots real nice like, but probably up the projectile weight. then I plan to reload the brass from my fact ammo.

I've got no idea on bullets themselves, I need to do some research. I have a Dillon progressive XL650

I reckon it'll be a few weeks before I do my first load - looking forward to it!

[Blackened]

.308 is just about the most common calibre in the world.

There will be more information on reloading online than you could ever read.

No shortage of guys reloading for it here either obviously.

Ask your questions here when ready and I've no doubt you'll get your answers with confidence.

[Warrigul]

Online is good but if you have one of the better reloading manuals you will occaisonally find yourself going back to it. I still pick up my old LEE manual for the odd bit of info now and again and for the mechanics of reloading they can be helpful.

I don't see the reloading manual as a source of load data(Most of the Lee manual is for yankee powders that aren't uin common use here, although I do use it a bit for alliant powders) and use ADI's load tables online when using their products.

Online often provides somewhere to get an answer to something you can't work out yourself or would like to check, however some people have an answer for everything and you need to be aware of that.

[halberg]

I reckon the manuals (some anyway) are great for a read on shooting regardless.

I have the one that ships with the RCBS reloading stuff and in additional to heaps of reloading info for all sort of bullets it's got a few pages of history on each cartridge and information on old and interesting ones I didn't know anything about.

I've spent a few nights sitting in bed reading the reloading manual

[Member-Deleted]

I just bought the latest hornady & Barnes reloading books plus I've just ordered the old blokes book as it was just $30. It's only to get diffrent loads & cross check some of the loads in the other books. If you want to know anything Pete just pm me & I'll do my best.

[Arth]

I have the one that ships with the RCBS reloading stuff and in additional to heaps of reloading info for all sort of bullets it's got a few pages of history on each cartridge and information on old and interesting ones I didn't know anything about.

The thick Speers reloading manual right? It's like a 1,000 pages or something?

There is some good reading in that one. Others too I'm sure...