Malamute wrote:Wow! Thanks for the source for the reprints! I have a few pages copied from a friends old Ideal manual, it has some great light loads, with both round balls and light cast bullets. There seems to be a fair amount of standard to heavy-ish hunting loads in the modern Lyman manuals, but not much in the very light loads which they called basement or cellar loads, and small game loads.
Anyone have suggestions for which particular Ideal manual numbers have the best variety of the extra-light loads and general information? The copied pages I have had pictures of the bullets they used on each caliber specific page along with cast and jacketed bullets listed in separate load tables. I like that format.
Malamute,
For many years I considered the Lyman 45 edition to be the epitome of reloading manuals. It has the best mix of old and new. Even Terry Weiland of Rifle Magaizine says it's a must.
But........leafing through the earlier ones has more descriptive information on the cast bullet thingys. I really like this one I just picked up. It even has many loads for the discontinued powders like Lightning and DuPont #6 and SR 80 which I have managed to hoard all of these years.
My suggestion is to 1st......make sure you have the 45th, then go backwards. I have the 39, 40, 41,45, all of the ones since the seventies along with their "Cast Bullet Only" manuals.
I'm going to get a few of those reprints of the first few. For as cheap as they are, there is lots of "expensive" info in them that will last a lifetime. Even though I have been casting continuously and heavily since 1973, I'm still learning.----6