The 2007 C.I.P. CD with update won't be available until later in the fall, but the kind folks at the Birmingham Proof House sent me a copy of the 2005 edition for the time being.

C.I.P. stikes me as being much more thorough than SAAMI. The latest SAAMI set I have dates back to the early 1990's. In any case, the C.I.P. CD-R provides a wealth of information.

I also wholeheartedly recomend the Patrone und Lagermasse CD that is available from Herr Treibel in Germany.

The SAAMI set does a fair job with the statistice of managing a production run so that very few cartridges get over the published maximum pressure line.

Well, off to the bank on Monday to wire transfer funds to Johannsen Jagd for the latest edition of RWS Weiderladen.

I plan to eventually buy brass from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, the Balkans and the USA. Then I will load American bullets over Belgique, Swedish, Australian, Canadian, Czech and Finnish powders for sale to all of the above (and much more).