Hello Cast Boolits;
My first post to this great casting forum.
I want to start slug casting and handloading.
I have been loading for years but have never done slug. Is this a good book
or can you suggest others.
Many thank,
primerhead
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Hello Cast Boolits;
My first post to this great casting forum.
I want to start slug casting and handloading.
I have been loading for years but have never done slug. Is this a good book
or can you suggest others.
Many thank,
primerhead
I can't speak about that book, as I don't have it. But I would think as long as it's current print, and has data, that it wouldn't be a bad choice.
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I have not looked @ their latest, but the last version was more of a pamphlet and pretty much only covered the slugs they sold. If you are going to cast your own I would think you would do good to look here and the shotgun world slug shooters sub forum.
Themoose
Perhaps my learning skills have diminished in my senior years.. 50 years ago I could read something once and then "have it"... Now I read it about three times, do it a couple of times and then... "have it" only about half the time.
Actually, its not too bad. And certainly if you never did slugs before it will help out.
SOme accuse BPI of using computers to generate pressure and velocity numbers, rather than testing; but the numbers for most loads are close.
And yes, like alot of manuals, they list the products they sell- but really, what do you expect?
All thew reason to have more than one manual!
But for what it is, I like mine.
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Not sure which edition I have but as stated above, it is not bad but limited to mostly BPI products and very few powder choices.
BPI also publishes one page data sheets which are handy and strangely use different recipes than what they show in their manual.
Reloading for Shotgunners has a decent slug loading section in it as well and of course the Lyman Shotshell Reloading Handbook is also a good choice.
So, as Carl said, best to have more than one manual.
If you know which slug you want to load, then you can narrow things down some. For instance if you want to load the Lyman sabot slug there are lots of recipes in the Lyman manual. Lee publishes data for their slugs but fairly limited. There is some Lee data in Reloading for Shotgunners.
Maybe do some reading here an don shotgunworld to get an idea of what is out there and what you want to load for then go from there.
In the end, you will probably want more than one source of info so several manuals will be handy.
Longbow
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