I see your point.Good arguments for it...
They spend a lot of money researching all the many possible loads for a Lot more different rounds nowadays. They need to recoup that , and with such a small retail niche market, selling data helps recover some of that.
Didn't look too closely, as I was excited to get home and start grilling my pork loin. Looked like it had some information articles and maybe some data for new stuff that isn't in their hard copy manual yet.
That's what they all say!
I am a reader. Pages were falling out of the Lee first edition and the second just isn't the same. Hornady eight is wore out and the eleventh I belive is in and I'm unsure to purchase. Nosler and Barnes have great stories. Hodgdon has been leaving out a few of my favorite calibers. And has been a let down. The website is trash and I used it a lot on my phone while in the basement over the years. Not one improvement just change to be changing. Lyman is down to earth hi quality reading from way back before computers. So I resemble your remark. One night owl to another.
yes, some shotgun info.
Funny you mention the 6mm Rem. The last Hodg manual I bought. Can't remember the date, but relatively recent, has data for such powerhouse cartridges as .30 TC and 6x47, but has dropped the 6.5x55 and .300 Savage.
One year they left out trap door loads, really!! "But it's on the web sight" Which is the pits on my phone
Also if you like reading about some one slapping their own backs over & over & over & over again.
I use many equipment manuals. Many. Reloading is so simple an activity that everything is written down. I relax by reading the stories and procedures in Barnes , lee , Nosler , all the Lyman books, powder manuals, bullet manuals. All that combined is what I draw upon when deciding which way to go. There is so much good info in the Lee books that if more people could read instead of being so arrogant as to put down what others read a vast majority of reloading questions wouldn't be asked in the reloading heading. The lee and the Lyman cast book is the most useful to any beginner. I'm not including competition people. That's a whole different level. Conversations I stay out of. Some need to act arrogant to strangers which is a whole different hilarious situation. Yesterday I was reading about a person looking for load data for a certain lead bullet for 41 mag. 215gr I believe. Well it's in the lee book. 215 lead loads. So many questions about bullets not mentioned in load manuals. In the lee book it's stated when no data ,use next weight up. So simple a cave man can do it. But how many lost soul's don't read the simplest of reloading books. Then they are forced to rely on strangers. Some of which make a mountain out of a mole hill. So ya at one time Richard Lee knew way more than you and helped advance this "hobby"
I loaned my first a few times then lost track of it. Your awesome. There is a few things in the first that isn't in the secondWhile we're on the (side) topic, Lee's first edition is available for free and has the basic info you're referring to available for anyone:
Modern Reloading - 1st Edition - by Richard Lee : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Modern Reloading - 1st Edition - by Richard Leearchive.org
An old guy use to say,
I can’t disagree. My uncle was no exception but he did pay for manuals and tipped the guys who saved him wheel weights - more than just a few bucks, too.
We spend good money to make noise.
and to do it correctly, and safely.
There’s a lot of truth in that.
