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Offline GRIMJIM

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sierra manual
« on: July 31, 2010, 11:56:40 AM »
I just picked up a very good condition sierra bullets reloading manual, second edition copyrite 1978 at an estate sale for a buck. It's interesting to look through even if the data is dated. They talk about the 7mm rem mag as if it just came out (actually 1962 I think) and there is a section on how they manufacture the bullets. I'm sure the basic principles are the same but the pics are cool, black and white with outdated machinery and everyone dressed as they did in the 70's.

I just find it interesting.
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2010, 01:51:45 PM »
That Sierria 2nd Edition was maybe my fifth or sixth manual, bought when it was new after I'd been reloading some fourteen years. 
You talk like it's old;  that ain't so.
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2010, 02:20:34 PM »
You should read the Speer #8 manual I found in a used book store a few years ago. It was printed in 1970. It has some loads that are down right scary. Some of the loads I don't think you can even get that much powder in a case. 
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2010, 03:01:59 PM »
HEY! What's wrong with the way we dressed in the 70's!  :o 8) 8)
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2010, 03:09:24 PM »
Nothing I dressed that way back then too. ;D
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2010, 05:01:22 PM »
I started reloading in the early/mid 1960s.  A couple years back I started looking for first edition loading manuals on e-Bay and purchasing them.  I now have #1:  Speer, Hornady, Sierra, Barnes, & Nosler.....and some of those loads are even scarier than the 1970s stuff. :D

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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2010, 04:10:43 AM »
"I now have #1:  Speer, Hornady, Sierra, Barnes, & Nosler.....and some of those loads are even scarier than the 1970s stuff."

In those days they felt it was enough to tell people to "start low, only work up until/unless...".   That caution seemed to work back then even tho it required a bit of knowledge and some thinking.  Maybe not so much so now??
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2010, 05:30:24 PM »
A lot of the powder designations we use today are not the same formulations or extrusions as 30-40-50 years ago. The old guy across the street from me (OK, he's like a 1/4 mile away from my house, but that really is "across the street") has some old Unique in a can that looks nothing like what we buy today. It appears denser and less "fluffy".  I could sure see where you could get a higher weight charge of his "Unique" into a cartridge than you could of mine.
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Re: sierra manual
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2010, 06:03:03 PM »
Heck--I still have some "Alcan" gun powder that I bought in the mid 60's for use in a .357 blackhawk.  I don't think that "Alcan" gun powder is even around these days.

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