Thread: The Importance of Records for Older Handloaders

Originally Posted by No.3

Not just older reloaders, I did something similar a while back and promptly put everything away when finished. Subsequently found two cartridge box labels sitting on the bench indicating which batch was made for what rifle (two .308win's). Would have been handy to put them in/on the box with the correct loads... Had to pull one down from each box just to confirm what was going on and reassemble, luckily it was fairly obvious once I'd checked everything what was going on and subsequently found that the dies set up for one rifle won't chamber in the other so another check.

I confine loads like that to one or a group of case makes for each rifle each so they don't get mixed up. I do put a label inside each box but the main records are the loading notes. These are filled out while loading. I think that just labels on the box is inadequate as there is no permanent record. My notes go back to 1979.
GPM.