ClarkEMyers
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No, there is not a definitive manual for current use. Sharpe and Naramore were as good as it gets in their day and still a useful foundation for how to - as noted the data should be discarded in favor of current data. In the intervening years George Nonte and John Wooters wrote some pretty good books on the how to aspect. Currently maybe Mic McPherson's newish book on Metallic Reloading from Safari Press and Patrick Sweeney's book on reloading for handguns from Krause/Gun Digest are as good as it gets. There are some useful chapters in the ABC's of Reloading series but no single book in that series is all that great. The data books from Berger and Any Shot You Want from Swift are great books a combination of information and data but most people will have little use for the bullets and so little use for the data. Load Data is handy for computer search but currently without the permission to copy and post newish data can't be the bible. For jacketed bullets the bullet makers have useful books - and the books which cost money are often more complete than the cheaper web data - for cast bullets and general data Lyman of course but again stay current - there are some old Lyman books, just as say older Speer #8,9 and others are not reliable data sources for current use.
