Reloading

Reloading notes, without recipes

A sample boundary: this site will not publish load data or AI-generated recipes.

Reloaders already have authoritative sources: the manuals that come with dies, and the data published by powder and bullet makers. Those documents are where load data lives. An AI chat is not one of those sources.

ShootersProof may eventually cover:

  • How to file your own notes so a later session is easy to compare.
  • How to ask an AI to explain a term that appears in a manual you already own.
  • How to spot when a model is guessing instead of pointing back to a printed source.

ShootersProof will not publish:

  • Starting, minimum, or maximum charges.
  • Substitutions, pressure guesses, or anything presented as an AI-generated load.
  • Anything that replaces a current manual.

If you reload, use the data published for your exact components and follow the safety rules in those manuals. If a future article drifts toward a recipe, the recipe comes out. The same rule is spelled out on the Safety page.

Reloading

N140 leads these 28 groups

28 groups from Oct 13 to Nov 7, 2026. N140 had the lowest averages. N133 was the highest. IMR 8208, CFE 223, and Varget overlap.

November 7, 2026

Reloading

A fast first shot inflates velocity SD

The same 21 strings, with shot 1 kept in and taken out. Removing shot 1 lowers the within-string velocity SD for every powder listed.

November 7, 2026