I love Handloading Books. This review is on the most recent Nosler 9 Handloading Manual. Nosler - World's Finest Bullets, Ammunition, Rifles, & Brass. I know, I just did a review on the Speer manual #15 Speer Handloading Manual #15 Review (ingunowners.com) but this book caught my eye. If I am not out shooting, cleaning, gunsmithing, handloading, gun shopping, writing reviews, dreaming, collecting guns, then I love to read everything about the hobby. Handloading is just part of it.
This 800 page hardbound book is hot off the press. The fine folks at Nosler have outdone themselves. It is even printed in the USA. I seem to go the extra mile to buy American Made Stuff. It’s just how I roll. Full color printing on good paper you will find lots of load data, reloading information, powder charts, Nosler bullet listing and more. There are cartridge drawing, SD and BC published for each bullet as well. C.O.L. and volume listings. There is a glossary and energy tables and even twist rates. There is not a reference section on interior and exterior ballistics but once you have an understanding of that, then printing it in every manual is redundant. Page 71 does include the basics of Bullet Stability however.
I shoot very few Nosler bullets as they are a premium product and to costly for the bulk shooting that I do. However, I do keep a few of my favorites in stock for extreme special purpose. Even though the Nosler book is for Nosler bullets, it is very adaptable to like wise bullets from another manufacturer that can be used as a guide.
There is a host of contributing authors on each cartridge listing as well. My friend Brian Pierce, Lee J Hoots, Rick Jamison to name a few. These are not wannabee writers that do not know how to load and shoot. but the real deal that have been there and done that.
My first Handloading guide was the Lyman #34 Welcome to Lyman (lymanproducts.com) printed in 1946. I own most all Lyman handloading guides since then. In co witnessing with the internet, these reloading books are nice to have as a bench reference or just sitting around the fire leafing through one once in a while. One thing about printed material…it stays right where it was printed. Sometimes, refinding something on the websites are difficult for me. It seems to get moved around, deleted, changed in some way and therefore hard to trust for me sometimes. Just saying.
So this winter if you are looking to add a nice manual to your shop, this would be a good one.
Good Shooting!!!
This 800 page hardbound book is hot off the press. The fine folks at Nosler have outdone themselves. It is even printed in the USA. I seem to go the extra mile to buy American Made Stuff. It’s just how I roll. Full color printing on good paper you will find lots of load data, reloading information, powder charts, Nosler bullet listing and more. There are cartridge drawing, SD and BC published for each bullet as well. C.O.L. and volume listings. There is a glossary and energy tables and even twist rates. There is not a reference section on interior and exterior ballistics but once you have an understanding of that, then printing it in every manual is redundant. Page 71 does include the basics of Bullet Stability however.
I shoot very few Nosler bullets as they are a premium product and to costly for the bulk shooting that I do. However, I do keep a few of my favorites in stock for extreme special purpose. Even though the Nosler book is for Nosler bullets, it is very adaptable to like wise bullets from another manufacturer that can be used as a guide.
There is a host of contributing authors on each cartridge listing as well. My friend Brian Pierce, Lee J Hoots, Rick Jamison to name a few. These are not wannabee writers that do not know how to load and shoot. but the real deal that have been there and done that.
My first Handloading guide was the Lyman #34 Welcome to Lyman (lymanproducts.com) printed in 1946. I own most all Lyman handloading guides since then. In co witnessing with the internet, these reloading books are nice to have as a bench reference or just sitting around the fire leafing through one once in a while. One thing about printed material…it stays right where it was printed. Sometimes, refinding something on the websites are difficult for me. It seems to get moved around, deleted, changed in some way and therefore hard to trust for me sometimes. Just saying.
So this winter if you are looking to add a nice manual to your shop, this would be a good one.
Good Shooting!!!
