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I bought the 2010 Hodgdon Annual Manual. This has been a reasonably useful manual for me. This year Hodgdon dropped the 307 and 356 Winchester cartridges which is a serious disappointment. If you want to help drive a cartridge into obsolescence removing load data is a good start.
Hodgdon bullets are not ideal for the 307 or 356 Winchester cartridges but Hodgdon powders are and it is a shame the cartridges were dropped from the manual.
I should not complain too loudly, Sierra and Lyman never included the cartridges in their manuals.
Before anyone gets too excited, those hot beds of reloading activity the 256 Winchester Magnum and 32-40 WCF are still included
Steve Gash has a good article on Hodgdon Varget and he sprinkles a little “pixie dust” on the 300 Savage – good realistic data which graphs favorably with the 308 Marlin Express.
So while I am sulking in the corner over the loss of my favorite cartridges the multitude shooting and reloading for the 45 Winchester Magnum is well covered with a surprising variety of load data.
Hodgdon bullets are not ideal for the 307 or 356 Winchester cartridges but Hodgdon powders are and it is a shame the cartridges were dropped from the manual.
I should not complain too loudly, Sierra and Lyman never included the cartridges in their manuals.
Before anyone gets too excited, those hot beds of reloading activity the 256 Winchester Magnum and 32-40 WCF are still included
Steve Gash has a good article on Hodgdon Varget and he sprinkles a little “pixie dust” on the 300 Savage – good realistic data which graphs favorably with the 308 Marlin Express.
So while I am sulking in the corner over the loss of my favorite cartridges the multitude shooting and reloading for the 45 Winchester Magnum is well covered with a surprising variety of load data.