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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Always write it down! |
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:29 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
Posts: 2127
Location: Hudson,Wy
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Today I was looking over Hogdon's reloading data site and noticed that the data for the Longshot loads I use in 16 gauge is mysteriously absent. As if I wasn't disappointed enough with 4756 getting the axe. It is a good thing that I write all of these things down in this era of "here today, gone tomorrow". Always make copies! |
_________________ Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter... |
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:36 pm
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Joined: 03 Sep 2014
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Location: Rochester, MN
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I keep a log book of the loads that I use. I include how they pattern and chronograph. |
_________________ John Singer |
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:46 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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It's back now. ??? I still prefer my paper copy: never a glitch (as long as I don't lose it!) |
_________________ Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter... |
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 4:48 pm
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
Posts: 965
Location: Minnesota
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WyoChukar wrote: |
It's back now. ??? I still prefer my paper copy: never a glitch (as long as I don't lose it!)
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I have a three ring binder with separations for 12,16,20 and 28 ga loads. It keeps me out of trouble. |
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 5:49 pm
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Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 483
Location: South Eastern PA
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That's why I take pictures of everything on my Iphone.
It took a while to get in the habit but now it has saved my bacon on several occasions. |
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Posted:
Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:17 pm
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Joined: 16 Feb 2006
Posts: 714
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
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I have a three ring binder with separations for 12,16,20 and 28 ga loads. It keeps me out of trouble.[/quote]
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_________________ Dennis
Current 16ga. Stable
Browning Citori Gr I
Browning Belgium Sweet 16
A.H. Fox Sterlingworth
Remington 11-48
Remington 31
Remington 870
Geco/J.P. Sauer BLNE
Winchester Mod 12 |
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Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:39 pm
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Joined: 26 Apr 2010
Posts: 3185
Location: NCWa
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I figure that's what the PRINT button is for. |
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Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:43 am
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Joined: 15 Dec 2005
Posts: 287
Location: missouri
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I've bought Hodgdons Annual reloading manuals for years now and I keep all of them. They've omitted a lot of loads from the website and newer versions of the manual that were in older versions. Lots of 16 gauge information if you back about 10 years in the manuals. |
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Posted:
Sat Apr 14, 2018 10:18 am
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Joined: 29 Jan 2010
Posts: 687
Location: McPherson, KS
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John Singer wrote: |
I keep a log book of the loads that I use. I include how they pattern and chronograph.
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Mine goes back at least to the 80s. |
_________________ Illegimati Non Carborundum Est |
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Sat Apr 14, 2018 1:13 pm
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Joined: 03 Sep 2014
Posts: 398
Location: Rochester, MN
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Jagdhund wrote: |
John Singer wrote: |
I keep a log book of the loads that I use. I include how they pattern and chronograph.
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Mine goes back at least to the 80s.
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I will admit, was not very wise in the 80's.
I started reloading in the late 70's. My log book started after 2005. After I experienced some issues like prompted this thread. |
_________________ John Singer |
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Sat Apr 14, 2018 6:15 pm
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Joined: 12 Feb 2018
Posts: 258
Location: West-central Missouri
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Started tracking what did & didn't work taping notes into the load manuals, just like in Sunday school. Later switched to post-it notes. X'd out loads that didn't do well in my guns. I like the new color-coded tabbed ones, the best yet, and think the loads work even better when they are written about on the fancy post-its... |
_________________ An ounce of fives, the smell of nitro in paper hulls, wet gundog, and Hoppe's #9... |
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Sat Apr 14, 2018 6:34 pm
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Joined: 19 Apr 2008
Posts: 477
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I have books going back to the '70's. I never throw one out and make it a point to try and get the annual powder company books every year. That's because they dump old recipes as soon as one of the components becomes obsolete or they come up with something new for whatever reason. I have lots of old hulls and wads that are not or rarely found on the websites.
Its never to late to start this habit.
Several years back a gentleman came up on line lamenting the fact he had lost all his old loading books and data in the Katrina floods. Because I had a large collection of duplicates I could send him copies of the older books he had lost. To say he was pleased would be an understatement. |
_________________ Many places remain undiscovered. Some because no one has ever been there. Others because no one has ever come back. |
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