how do you store your handload data

[mickb]

Anyone still using a book or are you mostly using the laptop or apps etc?

[deye243]

Mines all written on the mtm ammo box with a sticker info is primer powder projectile BTO length and speed .

[Billo]

I like my little blue note book, easy to flick to a cartridge & bullet combo

[Oldbloke]

Anyone still using a book or are you mostly using the laptop or apps etc?

Both

[bigpete]

In a note book. Every time I reload a batch I fill it out.

[Wapiti]

I just have a hard cover diary-sized notebook at my loading bench.
Sections for each firearm, dates, loads tried, relevant dimensional stuff like neck bushings used, nominal neck diameter, shoulder dimension, COAL, results and velocity.
Has served me well and is instantly available.
I do however take pics of the targets, for reference later.

[on_one_wheel]

Written on the box

[Oldbloke]

I just have a hard cover diary-sized notebook at my loading bench.
Sections for each firearm, dates, loads tried, relevant dimensional stuff like neck bushings used, nominal neck diameter, shoulder dimension, COAL, results and velocity.
Has served me well and is instantly available.
I do however take pics of the targets, for reference later.

Did that for a while. I just retain them in a lever arch file now.
All my targets are A4 size.

And hard cover book is better. I'm currently using a soft cover spiral (i aleady had it lying around) and I think that was a mistake

[Bugman]

Little black book. What's a laptop?

[Oldbloke]

Little black book. What's a laptop?

[bladeracer]

Anyone still using a book or are you mostly using the laptop or apps etc?

I use yellow insulation tape and texta on the box of ammo, and record the load data in the logbook spreadsheet for the firearm. I've wanted for years to do a spreadsheet only for load data but as I load so many different loads in so many different chamberings I've never worked out a good way to do this. I also write on the ammo boxes whether the ammo is for pistol or rifle use as I use rifle primers in a lot of the pistol ammo. I've never had an issue with rifle primers in pistols so far but I'm sure some pistols will struggle with them, particularly striker pistols. I still have to try rifle primers in the HiPower to see if they work okay.

[bladeracer]

In a note book. Every time I reload a batch I fill it out.

This is something I should do as I'm still using ammo I loaded ten years ago.

[JimTom]

I run a spreadsheet mate.

[mickb]

thanks for the replies fellas, trying to get some inspiration to overhaul my current system which is spread out over note books, spreadsheets and even scraps of paper etc. I think a decent hardcover medium diary sized book would suit.

[Oldbloke]

thanks for the replies fellas, trying to get some inspiration to overhaul my current system which is spread out over note books, spreadsheets and even scraps of paper etc. I think a decent hardcover medium diary sized book would suit.

Good option

[bigrich]

I just have a hard cover diary-sized notebook at my loading bench.
Sections for each firearm, dates, loads tried, relevant dimensional stuff like neck bushings used, nominal neck diameter, shoulder dimension, COAL, results and velocity.
Has served me well and is instantly available.
I do however take pics of the targets, for reference later.

same here . i keep targets of my best loads and write the data on the target also . as i shoot at the range a bit it's a no brainer to keep the targets with best performing loads as a reference . especially when i shoot bug holes with my 222

[mickb]

what layout on the pages do you like fellas. Calibre, bullet weight and type, brass brand, primer, powder, charge weight, firearm, velocity, range and group recorded etc?. More or less detail. Thats about as much as I go into personally.

[bigrich]

what layout on the pages do you like fellas. Calibre, bullet weight and type, brass brand, primer, powder, charge weight, firearm, velocity, range and group recorded etc?. More or less detail. Thats about as much as I go into personally.

i record all you mentioned except velocity . i use ADI data as a reference for approximate velocity when i'm chasing a load, but in the end it's accuracy with cases that don't show pressure signs . i used to chrono loads years ago out of curiosity but don't get too hung up with velocity now. bullet construction/performance on game is more important . i use nathan fosters website as a reference for this and found him to be spot on in nearly all cases

[bladeracer]

what layout on the pages do you like fellas. Calibre, bullet weight and type, brass brand, primer, powder, charge weight, firearm, velocity, range and group recorded etc?. More or less detail. Thats about as much as I go into personally.

i record all you mentioned except velocity . i use ADI data as a reference for approximate velocity when i'm chasing a load, but in the end it's accuracy with cases that don't show pressure signs . i used to chrono loads years ago out of curiosity but don't get too hung up with velocity now. bullet construction/performance on game is more important . i use nathan fosters website as a reference for this and found him to be spot on in nearly all cases

Same, velocity is meaningless generally. Eventually I'll have the chrono out with me and I'll put some rounds through it and record it, but it isn't usually of any relevance early on when making the load. Heavily-reduced loads I will chrono because I'm usually aiming for a specific velocity window, and anything subsonic gets chronoed because it's the best way of ensuring the load is, and stays, subsonic. Making a load that groups well is far more important than how fast it is.

[mickb]

I chrony mostly to test full house loads, also subsonics. I admit i chase numbers for the sake of it. Never got into developing better groups than minute of pig, each to his own

[wrenchman]

I tend to right them down I like to keep track of the loads and how they do