Hi all,

I received the 18th edition of HANDLOADERS DIGEST and was very disappointed, when I holded it in my hands. Boy, it was only half of the old 15th ed. I owe!!! 256 Pages compared to 480!!! The articles surely nice, the overview on reloading accessories nice too, but somehow they must have forgotten the chapter with BULLETS!!! (30 pages in the 15th ed.) This section was for me the main reason to buy this book! I felt like if I`ve bought the Gun Digest without the rifle section! Of course I sent the book back and demanded to be kept informed, if there ever will appear an edition with bullet section.

So, does anybody know why the bullet section was removed? Where can I find a comparable description of all available bullets around the world? Do I need to visit every homepage of every manufacturer or does there exist a supplier, that has them all in his catalogue (or online)?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Greetings

Wolfgang

Ricciardelli,

thanks for posting that link. Stevespages is a great website with tons of useful information. Surely, there you can find some of the major bullet manufactorers, but as you can see on the list below, the following manufacturers are not listed. There are a lot of small ones, but I�m missing some of the bigger ones too. Also I was waiting to possibly see some of those not listed in the old edition added in the new one...

Bullet manufacturers listed in Handloaders Digest 15th ed:

1. Action
2. Allred
3. Alpha Lafranck
4. A-Square
5. Armfield
6. Atlantic Rose
7. Azone
8. Ballard
9. Beartooth
10. Big Bore
11. Bitterroot
12. Blue Mountain
13. Blue Point
14. BRP
15. Bruno shooters supply
16. Buffalo Arms Co
17. Bullet Mills
18. Bullseye
19. Bull-X
20. C.J. Ballistics
21. C.W. Cartridge
22. James Calhoon
23. Carroll Bullets
24. Champion`s Choice
25. Cook Bullets
26. Cor-Bon
27. Curtis Gun Shop
28. Diamondback Supply
29. Dillon
30. D&J Bullet Co.
31. DKT
32. Eagle Flight
33. Elkhorn
34. Eichelberger
35. Fowler Bullets
36. Freedom Arms
37. Fuslier Bullets
38. Gentner Bullets
39. Green Bay Bullets
40. Grizzly Bullets
41. Group Tightener Bullets
42. Hammett`s VLDS
43. Harris
44. Hart
45. Hawk Labs Inc.
46. Hobson
47. HAT Bullets
48. J&L Superior Bullets
49. Idaho Bullets
50. IMI
51. Jensen Bullets
52. JLK Bullets
53. Kawser Custom
54. Keith`s
55. Ken`s
56. Lane Bullets
57. KLA Enterprises
58. Liberty Shooting Supplies
59. M&D Munitions
60. Magnus Bullet Co.
61. Marmik
62. Master Class
63. MCRW
64. R.F. Mitchell
65. Meister Bullets
66. MI-TE Bullets
67. Moloc Bullets
68. Montana Precision Swaging
69. Rick Mulhern Bullets
70. Northern Precision
71. National Bullet Co.
72. The Old Western Scrounger
73. Penn
74. Precision Bullet
75. Rainier Ballistics
76. Ranger
77. Red Cedar Precision
78. R.I.S.
79. R.J. Renner
80. Rubright Bullets
81. RWS
82. Scharch
83. Schneider
84. Small Group Bullets
85. Schroeder Bullets
86. Shilen
87. Star
88. 3-D Ammunition & Bullets
89. Thunderbird
90. Tru-Flight
91. Vincent`s Shop
92. Watson
93. Western Nevada Westcoast Bullet
94. Wyoming Bonded
95. Zonie

Not listed in Handloaders Digest 15th ed:

96. Blaser
97. Classic
98. Degol
99. GPA
100. GS
101. H&N
102. Hirtenberger
103. Norma
104. North Fork
105. PMP
106. Remington
107. Sellier & Bellot
108. Winchester
109. WM

Greetings

Wolfgang

Greg, over at www.reloadbench.com has quite a few bullets with specs, and most have photos attached if that helps you any. The link is accessable right off the home page.

Personally I've thought edition #1 to the present was a waste.
Jim

I agree! I was sadly disappointed that the bullet section was omitted. Maybe it's because so many new ones seem to be added pretty frequently and they just can't keeep up!

It might have been a couple years ago, but I thought I heard that the publishers were publishing the last Handloaders Digest. Now you've got me curious. Did it really go out of print? Did someone else start publishing it? Is the 18th edition published by the same outfit that published the 15th? Thanks for the warning anyway.

H. C.