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Barnes Bullets Load Data

by topon sing Blogger

Hornady creates and publishes reloading information for the Handbook of Cartridge Loading. It is available in three formats: hardcover, e-book, Kindle or Apple iBook, as well as the Hornady reloading data. The Hornady Reloading App, which is available in both eBook and bound versions, provides all information necessary to successfully reload a variety of handgun and rifle cartridges. You can also save favorites and add notes. Reloading data can be purchased for as low as 99C per cartridge, or as a subscription at $19.99. To help you get started, you will find basic information for each cartridge below.

  1. 1. Basic Load Data

Hornady Manufacturing Company publishes reloading data to the Handbook of Cartridge Reloading. We will occasionally publish load data on this page if a bullet becomes available but is not yet in the current edition of the Handbook of Cartridge Reloading.

Most of the bullets which are reloaded only have the number of the bullet in it. Most reloading bullet data can be found on websites like www.xxl-reloading.com.

However, there is a need for reloading bullet data for each specific model of bullets and for them to be updated every year or so, especially since new guns are being introduced by firearms manufacturers every year. Therefore, we want to collect this information from our users as well as upload it to a database.


2. What Types of Bullets Are There?


This is the start of a series of posts on reloading bullets data. You may have noticed these bullets are very similar to those you can find in your reloading manual or the web pages of reloading companies.

A lot has been written about how this information is useful for different purposes, but I’m not going to go into that here. I personally find it useful for just about any purpose that requires a simple answer to a question (such as what kind of bullet you should use, or how often you need to change your bullets). 


It certainly isn’t accurate enough to be used to determine the value of any given product (as shooting tips, hunting tips or reloading info), but it is probably just as valuable as those other kinds of information.


Here are some other things the data can tell us:


I have been doing this, and similar data exists for hunting, target shooting and self-defense. These are all well documented products so you won’t need to do much digging at all. You can even get an idea for how much data is available for each product by looking at the most popular categories in our database: shooting tips & advice; hunting tips and advice; self defense tips and advice; etc…

In each case, there are many more brands than actual shops or distributors selling their products. To be sure, many manufacturers and distributors offer multiple products within a category (such as .223/5.56 vs .22/9mm), but some do not offer anything at all in that category.

The above picture is based on something called “demand” which is a common measurement used in marketing studies (it measures demand by examining sales figures). In our case, it measures demand by examining the number of listings per brand within each category (a list item will show up if there are enough entries with that brand name). 

There are lots of factors that influence demand – price generally being one big one – but we can conclude from this small dataset that guns with dies already attached sell better than guns without dies attached. The biggest reason why this happens is simple: they look better when they have them attached (they look like they belong more) and people want them attached when buying them (they want them put on immediately). This makes sense intuitively – after all, we want people to buy our stuff right? So having something ready to..


3. Benefits of Using Lead Bullet Data


This is a staggering number for several reasons:

  • 1. There are approximately 74,000 new loads (refer to the “Bullet Data” section).
  • 2. Each bullet has a different shape and composition. Each cartridge has a different load profile and velocity.
  • 3. The majority of the cartridges currently in use were designed prior to WWII (refer to the “Bullet Data” section).
  • 4. The average cost of a bullet is $0.15 per round (refer to the “Bullet Data” section).
  • 5. In some cases, when it comes to reloading, you don’t need almost any information about your ammunition; only one or two bullets will be used each time you fire your gun (refer to the “Bullet Data” section).


4. How to Find the Right Bullet for Your Gun


The article below explains how to find the right bullets for your gun.

The Bullet Data mentioned in the title is one of the most popular datasets that can be found online. It is in a very good shape and a huge number of people around the globe use it for hunting, target shooting and many other purposes.

However, there are still some issues that need to be solved if you want to use this dataset. One of them is accuracy and whether or not you can trust the data provided by Bullet Data. You can read more about these issues here: A note on Accuracy of Bullet Data .


5. How to Use Our Database to Select the Right Bullet for You?


When you’re looking for a bullet, you want to make sure that the bullet is compatible with your gun, that it’s got the expected weight and velocity, and the accuracy. Bullet load data helps you do this.

Let’s say you’re shooting at a target (say, a 12-gauge shotgun) using a 12-gauge shotgun as your rifle (say, an 870 or similar). You might want to load up a slug of lead shot in the top of your barrel. The number of rounds you can shoot before having to reload is governed by the throat depth of your barrel. The longer your barrel is, the more time it takes to reload. 

However, while long barrels are typically safe to fire until they exceed the maximum cartridge length of 12 inches (though some will still be dangerous), short barrels get less time between shots before reloading if they are fired beyond 14 inches. All these factors combine to determine how quickly you can fire a certain number of rounds before reloading.

6. Conclusion

In a recent post, we had the pleasure of trying out new reloading data, including some interesting insights about handguns and their ammunition. This is just one example of how this dataset has become a great tool for understanding what makes a ‘good’ handgun.

The data in our database is eye-opening in more ways than one. In addition to offering insight into the performance of handguns, you can use it to look at how well different ammunition performs across voltage levels. For example, do higher pressure loads perform better than low pressure loads? Do higher velocity rounds perform better than lower velocity ones? Does a given round perform equally well with different types of barrels?

The above are just some examples but there are many more that can be investigated by taking advantage of our large amount of data (over 100k entries). If you want to know more about reloading data and why we have gathered so much material on it, check out our blog post about it here . Last but not least  our reloading code is available on https://www.xxl-reloading.com.



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