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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7268 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	What was your first reloading manual? Oct 14^th, 2024 at 5:45pm	Print Post
	This was mine, that I bought in 1968, for $1.35. I believe it was new, for that year. Note the $1.75 price for 4831. It would even be a a real bargain, adjust for inflation @ $15.85.

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rgchristensen Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1088 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2014	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #1 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 6:43pm	Print Post
	Earl Naramore’s “Principles and Practice of Loading Ammunition”. It was a gift from my “shooting uncle” over 60 years ago. I now have a 2-foot shelf of various manuals, along with a LOT of other stuff. CHRIS


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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3865 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #2 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 9:00pm	Print Post
	1963 for me. It looks like I paid $1.60 for it. Had to look up something in it today.


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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11461 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #3 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 9:18pm	Print Post
	Speer.

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GunBum Full Member Offline Posts: 187 Location: SW Missouri Joined: Oct 30^th, 2021	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #4 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 10:00pm	Print Post
	Hodgdon Back when they still had Trap100


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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1931 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #5 - Oct 14^th, 2024 at 11:58pm	Print Post
	A Speer No 1, dated 1957 4th printing, given to me by a neighbor in 1960 as an interested junior in high school, saying he only used ammunition for hunting and didn't think he would ever use it. That was all it took, so I found a used CH c- press to get started and Still have both. Whew! 64 years ago, that was a wake up call.

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ssdave Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1796 Location: Eastern Oregon Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #6 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 12:34am	Print Post
	Speer #10, wore the cover off the first one, replaced it with a better copy.


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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2050 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #7 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 1:56am	Print Post
	Phil Sharpe


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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 807 Location: Gaithersburg, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #8 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 7:32am	Print Post
	Lyman, 1968. Still refer to it occasionally. Sharpe was my inspiration though. I about wore out the library's copies of his two books before I acquired copies of my own. I met Phil Sharpe as a little kid, or so my Dad told me. He had a coworker who was Sharpe's neighbor and tagged along on a couple visits with me in tow. Dad acquired some odds and ends at Sharpe's estate sale, one of which was a box of pre war FA .30 match ammo which I still have.


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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3877 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #9 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 8:28am	Print Post
	Lyman 1964

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DWT1885 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 395 Location: New Jersey Joined: Nov 25^th, 2010	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #10 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 8:58am	Print Post
	Lyman also. Forget the year.

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11461 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #11 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 9:45am	Print Post
	I also have a 1964 edition of Parker O Ackleys book. Full of useful information.

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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2833 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #12 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 11:16am	Print Post
	rgchristensen wrote on Oct 14^th, 2024 at 6:43pm: Earl Naramore’s “Principles and Practice of Loading Ammunition”. It was a gift from my “shooting uncle” over 60 years ago. I now have a 2-foot shelf of various manuals, along with a LOT of other stuff. CHRIS Same for me. I bought it mail order from Ray Riling in 1962. I was in the Navy, stationed at West Loch Naval Ammunition Depot, Pearl Harbor. No opportunity to load, but I could at least read about it.


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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2833 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #13 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 11:20am	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Oct 15^th, 2024 at 9:45am: I also have a 1964 edition of Parker O Ackley's book. Full of useful information. I bought the earlier edition in Bob Chou's gun shop in San Francisco in 1961. I was on liberty, waiting to ship out. Nearly broke, but I could afford that. still have it.


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3561 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: What was your first reloading manual? Reply #14 - Oct 15^th, 2024 at 11:33am	Print Post
	Speer no.7, though I don't know what year it is from, gifted to me from an early mentor. Still have it, and was tickled when Frank's posting sent me in search of it. Fun thread.


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