I give them to friend's young children.
First they look at the pictures of the dead animals. Kids think dead animals are way cool.
When they get older they read about the different cartridges' history and application.
By the time they start high school they are stealing money out of mom's purse to have me pick up primers for them from Bob's House of Hodgdon.
Helping develop a young person's character is an awesome responsibility, and a privilege as well.
JCN

I collect them. Use them for reference ect.

I figure they'll be collectibles by the time I retire....wait, I already am retired...WTF!

Hey guys, I got a whole wad of antique reloading manuals, anybody interested???

I keep them all because the real old ones have data for cartridges the new ones lack, like .32/40, .38/55, .45/90, etc.

I buy them on Ebay and at gunshows.

And I can tell from the prices, there are lots of others like me.

Ebay search for 'manual' inside of 'relaoding' catagory





Hint: the manual at auction with lots of bids on it is an "old" manual.

Speer #4 is on WILDCATs and is good for reference!

the_captn

I use mine because they have loads in them that everybody used before lawyers came along with liability suits.

Now I'm cooked. Not only do I have kids spending their lunch money on H4831, they are using too much of it at a time....
JCN

Send them to me I'll take them off your hands.

YES SIR! I need a # 25 Hodgdon manual. Though it's not thaaat old. Please advise. ned

I have passed a few along to new reloaders.

I keep all of mine and use them for those hard to find loads. I like to use about four different companies manuals at the same time and look for consistency when working up a new load.