They have "lost" most of their pistol data and reduced the caliber choices to about 1/2.I may as well do this while I'm at it. Hodgdon has been.... challenging at times with data. I see they've updated their site again so I hope it gets better:
file:///home/owner/Downloads/WesternPowdersHandloadingGuide8.0_WEB-2.pdf
Plus, all of the IMR data from powders no longer produced have been stricken from the site.They have "lost" most of their pistol data and reduced the caliber choices to about 1/2.
Like you, and many others... I have books.Plus, all of the IMR data from powders no longer produced have been stricken from the site.
Yes, indeedy doody.Like you, and many others... I have books.
For what we mostly do here, a lot of the old Ideal and Lyman manuals cover things very, very well. That is to say that they cover the mechanics of what we do very well. Some of the data is a bit outdated, and there has been a lot of new products introduced in the last sixty to seventy years that we need information on, but that's why books were invented in the first place. It's too bad that so many of the newcomers only seem to want the final answer.Yes, indeedy doody.
Hodgdon's been playing with their web-site and powder burn rate chart(s) for quite some time. Too, it's an example of what happens when a company has a monopoly on product -- Hodgdon, IMR, Winchester, Accurate, Ramshot.
Can't imagine how those who shun reloading manuals put up with constantly changing Internet data and page appearances.
The reason why I self-exiled from that other site.It's too bad that so many of the newcomers only seem to want the final answer.
Thanks Fiver. I hit the Internet Archive and did some digging, haven't found anything yet (I did download every one of the pdfs of the "gimme books" of load data, and all data for the Data powders they still had). Worst case, I'll do some experimenting using AA9 data as a starting point.9-C would be 9 commercial.
i remember there being a section on the old Accurate site that gave the C-data powders crossover to the canister number.
i know the lot of DATA-9 powder i have is a direct crossover.
if it looks like it, and quacks like it,, i'd have to go with it being slightly faster...