Reloading notes

[scrappy]

How do you guys go about recording your loading data and shooting results? Until recently my records have been pretty scattered, scribbled here and there on note cards, stickers applied to ammo boxes or on the pages of various reloading manuals. Sometimes this has made it difficult to reference the info for later reuse.

Just started trying to consolidate it all into a 3 ring binder, with seperate folders for each caliber. Even printed out a standardized page to record all pertinent data on, as well as space for notes and even the addition of trimmed out targets taped to the page.

Might be a bit analog by the standards of some more tech savvy folks, but it's reliable, won't crash, portable and simple. How do you guys go about it?

[hatchdog]

Lyman and others sell books with blank pages to keep record of data. I just use a page tab to keep different calibers separate.

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/203800 ... ing-manual

[Astocks2622]

I built an excel spreadsheet for that purpose. when I'm building up a new load, I just enter the load data on the sheet, then print out the relevant pages to record results at the range. when I get home, I enter the results on the excel document, & I have an electronic copy & the hard copy I wrote on.

[Rigger28]

I purchased a college rule notebook for each caliber to write my load data and range results in. I make the labels for my ammo boxes on sticker paper at work.

[Call Turner]

I use a smaller 6x8 in notebook that I have divided up into Rifle , Pistol, Shotgun, and BP. With the most pages given to the BP which I am constantly working on new loads, different Lubes, primers, powders,compression's, etc. Shotgun is for choke pattern info with different loads. Pistol is pretty basic cause I only have several and those loads are listed. Rifles come and go with the exception of my main hunting rifles and their loads are seldom tweaked.

[thumpar]

I keep a white board on the wall to note current loads then transfer them to paper. It helps keep track of what is being loaded so I don't forget it later.

[reloader762]

In the old days I kept my reloading data wrote down in an old spiral bound composition book. With the advent of the home computer age I transferred all that data to word document specific for each caliber and printed them out. The documents are held in a 3" ring binder inside plastic sheet protectors.

I also scanned and printed out various reloading manual pages for each caliber that I load in both jacketed an cast lead and placed them in sheet protectors in each caliber section in the binder as well. I also have a section in the binder for all types of charts an other informative reloading info I've gleaned off the net over the years so I don't have to go through a bunch of books,all the important stuff it right at my finger tips in one place.

I keep all these records on several computers as well, all which are backup on a nightly basis so any new data is always recorded and kept up to do electronically and I also make a point to print out new updated data sheets and replace the info in the binder.

This Excel spread sheet is also useful for recording you data on.
http://ultimatereloader.com/2014/01/02/ ... load-data/

A printable PDF file load data sheet.
http://ultimatereloader.com/wp-content/ ... ok-2.0.pdf