Product Overview
The 2024 Hodgdon Basic Manual features more than eight thousand loads for Hodgdon, Accurate, IMR, Ramshot and Winchester Smokeless Propellants. The 42-page manual also includes other rifle, pistol and shotshell reference data such as Burn Rate charts, Wad charts and Bushing charts.
The 2024 Hodgdon Basic Manual features Hodgdon co-founder Bob Hodgdon on the cover. “We lost Bob just after the 2023 Basic Manual was published and we wanted to commemorate his life and what he meant to our employees,” said Steve Kehrwald, President & CEO of Hodgdon Powder Company. “This cover picture was our favorite picture of Bob – he is greatly missed by the Hodgdon family and employees.”
Published by Hodgdon Powder Co., the 2024 Hodgdon Basic Manual is now available.
Reviews
109 Reviews
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4 Reloading
Posted by Ringo on Mar 5th 2024
Very good starter manual, would be great if you included loads for a 45/120
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5 reloading manual
Posted by carl jones on Mar 4th 2024
well done.
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2 Reloaders Guide
Posted by Hershel Graves on Aug 22nd 2023
For anyone wanting to actually load ammo, this guide is nearly useless. For someone new to reloading, this guide is very sketchy and misleading in both powder selection and bullet choice. Sorry I bothered to buy it !!
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2 Basic reloading manual
Posted by James Jefferis on Aug 1st 2023
sections missing, ie; federal shell data for 20 ga. Lack of update, ie; 2019 edition the same as the 2023 edition which is the same as the 2006 and 2007 editions. Nice that it includes new powders.
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3 2023 BASIC RELOADING MANUAL
Posted by JAMES BLANTON on Jul 21st 2023
I didn't feel it had much information.
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5 I like it
Posted by Rich Price on Jul 17th 2023
easy to read format
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3 Reload data
Posted by Patrick on Jul 16th 2023
Idk why hodgdon keeps listing wads for taper hulls in straight walled hulls. I load clear hulls and the powder migration is clearly visible. I use pieces of paper towels around the gas seal to stop it. You would think they would jump into the modern era and use better wads.
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4 2023 Basic Reloading Manual
Posted by Ken Jaworski on Jul 9th 2023
First 17 pages were very informative and I liked the descriptions of the various powders. I think the reloading data was very incomplete (obvious not a handbook on reloading), although not a handbook it does give info of the newest cartridges not yet published. There was no reference to the 6.5 Gendel eventhough it referenced the 6mm ARC, both of which are relative newbee's. In the shotgun area there was no mention of Fiocchi cases. This is becoming a prominent case at a lot of gun clubs for skeet, trap, and sporting clays. Good starting reference with instructions on going to website for up-to-date data on page 3.
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4 2023 Basic Reloading Manual
Posted by Michael E Paskett on Jul 9th 2023
Good information, but I was disappointed that it did not contain 9MM reloading data. Earlier editions included this data.
