Lee Loading Manual

[Blue68f100]

If your have one of the electronic safes, you be be locked out unless yours have a key over ride. Good oh mechanical will still work. On old antique autos without electronics. Hope that day never comes..

As for manuals I have a habit of just printing the load data from online sources and save into a notebook. Hard copies are hard to beat when our inter connected world comes down. Being out in the county it's quite common to loose power. Most of the time it's a short period but depending on what went down it may be hours to days. Nice having a standby generator so I don't loose all the meats (and ice cream) in the freezers.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I horde because I like to go look at all my beautiful stuff.

Wait. I don't horde.

I prepare.

I know the feeling!

 

[Mark_Mark]

If your have one of the electronic safes, you be be locked out unless yours have a key over ride. Good oh mechanical will still work. On old antique autos without electronics. Hope that day never comes..

As for manuals I have a habit of just printing the load data from online sources and save into a notebook. Hard copies are hard to beat when our inter connected world comes down. Being out in the county it's quite common to loose power. Most of the time it's a short period but depending on what went down it may be hours to days. Nice having a standby generator so I don't loose all the meats (and ice cream) in the freezers.

you can buy a spare electronic units, test it for your safe, then store it in your faraday cage.

Faraday cages are very easy to build and very cheap

 

[Mark_Mark]

here a homemade cage made from A galvanized can and aluminum tape and foil


ALSO, everybody has a faraday cage and don’t know it… your microwave!

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

NICE Library!!! but were is your Blue Book???

I'm not sure I know anybody besides gun dealers who buy and sell used guns who bother with a Blue Book of Gun Values. All things of material value in life are worth exactly what a potential buyer is willing to pay, constrained by what the potential seller is willing to accept. All a book of "values" does is give the seller a starting point for asking and the buyer a no-pass line for offering.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

If your have one of the electronic safes, you be be locked out unless yours have a key over ride. Good oh mechanical will still work.

Mechanical works until it's a baby nuke or dirty bomb. Then it's radioactive and you can't go near it without getting cooked.

The Lee manual wasn't my first reloading manual - the Lyman's 45th Ed. was - but I have one, had the first but gave it away when I got the 2nd. I started on Lyman's reloading equipment because that's what the uncle who taught me reloading used. I have gear and parts and "stuff" from Hornady, Lyman, RCBS, but most of my dies are Lee or Hornady. They mix and match just fine. I will say, I like the Hornady die cases best of all but the Ideal/Lyman's cast manuals and the Lee FCD are absolute must-haves for me. Old manuals are great for old cartridges for which online manuals and powder/bullet maker's data is no longer available.

 

[markr6754]

I have have the 2nd edition (2016) and it doesn't have 300 BO listed, I was somewhat upset and disappointed when I built my BO only to look and the BO wasn't listed. I don't get it, the BO has been around and popular for much longer then the books print. From what I can tell 2021 has added a lot more Calibers.

I had no idea the 2nd was reprinted so many times. I have the 2nd 2017 printing and it has 300 BO data. I wonder what prompts them to increase the edition number.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I had no idea the 2nd was reprinted so many times. I have the 2nd 2017 printing and it has 300 BO data. I wonder what prompts them to increase the edition number.

Considering Richard James Lee passed away on September 22, 2018, I don't think there will be a 3rd Ed. Unless his son John decides to write his own and call it the "Lee Modern Reloading 3rd Edition" in tribute to his father.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I'm not sure I know anybody besides gun dealers who buy and sell used guns who bother with a Blue Book of Gun Values. All things of material value in life are worth exactly what a potential buyer is willing to pay, constrained by what the potential seller is willing to accept. All a book of "values" does is give the seller a starting point for asking and the buyer a no-pass line for offering.

it’s a good read, lot’s of pictures and how to communicate the condition of the gun in percentages. it’s more than just book of values it a history book with lots of photos. HUGE BOOK!

 

[higgite]

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here a homemade cage made from A galvanized can and aluminum tape and foil

So, if you have an electronic safe, you should keep it in a trash can? Ingenious! And an added bonus, ATF will never find it.

 

[Mark_Mark]

So, if you have an electronic safe, you should keep it in a trash can? Ingenious! And an added bonus, ATF will never find it.

no man, buy a spare electronic combo code punch in device, test it, and store in in a Faraday cage (microwave) incase of a EMP

 

[higgite]

no man, buy a spare electronic combo code punch in device, test it, and store in in a Faraday cage (microwave) incase of a EMP

I have an EMP-proof dial type safe. Keeps my microwave available for heating up beanie weenies in anticipation of an imminent EMP.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I have an EMP-proof dial type safe. Keeps my microwave available for heating up beanie weenies in anticipation of an imminent EMP.

you have a manual tumbler safe??? lol

 

[Ranger99]

If your have one of the electronic safes, you be be locked out. . .

Actually, I ( or anyone else) can get in
through the side of most gun safes with
one of those harbor freight grinders and
a couple of those metal cutting carbon
wheels. They're not as invulnerable as
they're made out to be. I wouldn't mind
having a fire resistant one though if it
was unconditionally guaranteed to
protect from a house fire

 

[kcofohio]

Actually, I ( or anyone else) can get in
through the side of most gun safes with
one of those harbor freight grinders and
a couple of those metal cutting carbon
wheels. They're not as invulnerable as
they're made out to be. I wouldn't mind
having a fire resistant one though if it
was unconditionally guaranteed to
protect from a house fire

But if there is no electricity to run the grinder...

 

[kcofohio]

Considering Richard James Lee passed away on September 22, 2018, I don't think there will be a 3rd Ed. Unless his son John decides to write his own and call it the "Lee Modern Reloading 3rd Edition" in tribute to his father.

I think the Lee's manual is good info for general reloading and casting. And I have found it helpful in setting up some dies. But I'll admit, it has been several years since I looked at any of their load data.

 

[johnjohn]

I have Lyman 47 and Lee. All my molds are Lee no mention of loading for loading for bullets from Lee molds. Lyman is not like that but I can't afford their molds.

 

[Ranger99]

But if there is no electricity to run the grinder...

There's a cordless version of everything
these days. The thieves here that specialize
in stealing catalytic converters from vehicles use cordless tools to do their dirty work

There's not much of anything anymore
that's 100% theft proof.

 

[Mark_Mark]

There's a cordless version of everything
these days. The thieves here that specialize
in stealing catalytic converters from vehicles use cordless tools to do their dirty work

There's not much of anything anymore
that's 100% theft proof.

I have a 2016 Prius in Seattle and I have to hide it in the back yard, Cat thief for Prius is that bad here.

 

[higgite]

Here you could park a Prius on the street and use it for a gun safe. Nobody would touch it.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Here you could park a Prius on the street and use it for a gun safe. Nobody would touch it.

Not in The PNW… they shower it with trinkets and honey water