Why scanning your load data is so important

Well, its time for the kids to get back to school. I never realized how expensive school supplies would become. I relocated all my reloading to a a different work room this summer. Unfortunately, it was a storage room prior for us. My daughter, grabbed a ring binder and emptied the contents, thinking she was taking one of my old ones. Into the burn barrel went about 5 years worth of notes I had on various loads that I had done for myself and friends. I had thought about running all my stuff through the scanner and making a PDF back up of everything. Would-of, could-of, should-of…………..

Ouch.

I’m sorry to hear this I don’t reload but my dad does and have seen all the notes he has.

Sorry to hear that Randy. I’m guessing your daughter feels even worse than you do.

Yea, she felt pretty bad. But I take a lot of the blame. When I moved everything, I should have organized it better. One of those rainy day projects that I never got done. Fortunately, I did one smart thing. When ever I work up loads for friends, I put a sticker in the ammo box with all the data. I have that for most of my rifles, so not all was lost. What was lost that I really wish I had was “off” loads. As an example, I have an awesome load for one of my .270’s with Barnes TSX 130 & H4831SC. I also have a very good short range load for that same rifle with 90gr Sierra Varmit bullets with H4350. Since I only load about 40 of the Sierra bullets a year….that type of data was lost