Charles Graff
Moderator Emeritus
I received my copy of 4th Edition Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook. I really didn't feel a need for it, but folks quote it, so it is time I got onboard. Now to find out what pearls of ballistic wisdom it contains.
I don't know about anyone else, but seems like when I pick up a new manual or maybe one of the Hogdon annual manuals I look through it expecting, as Charles says, "pearls" and then I end up going back to the old standards and Ken Waters "Pet Loads". I still keep buying the new ones though. Hope springs eternal?
It does for me. Sometimes there are real gems, like the 50th Lyman manual with the most complete loads for SR powders. Even though they were discontinued by the publication date, they will be the last pressure test data ever for them. And they started using a wider variety of bullets.Hope springs eternal?
When you have run around the same track a few thousand time, you get to know it very well. I gave up handbook dependency many years ago. I still check with them from time to time, to make certain my brain has not blown a gasket. They say, you are the last to know.
Used to have the 1st and 2nd editions, but of all its powders I had only four of them.I have the last two editions. Id like to have all of them. Useful esp for me as I have and pickup many old discontinued molds.
Ant one have any they would part with?
CW
Well, Mike "Duke" Venturino wrote all the book except for three articles. You will have to look hard to find pearls. Data section is good!
True that. I'm inside that Pet Loads tome with some frequency.Water's maximum loads, for rifles, really are maximum loads! I stop before I get there.
that don't work when you got me AND Brad to let you know what you think.If I only wish to consult the opinion of one man on a subject,