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"