Has anyone subscribed to Loaddata.com? It's $34.95 a year. I just wonder if it's worth it or not.

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Where we go one, we go all

I believe Quick load is a much better value, but I prefer to pay all at once rather than subscriptions.

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Front sight and squeeze

Too many FREE load books from powder mfg'er's. to pay for that. I would rather just buy a loading manual or two.

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S&W Accumulator

My Lyman booklet only cost me $6.50..........

for the 38 spl, 357, 44 mag and 45 colt booklet

or the 380 auto, 9mm Luger, 40 S&W and 45 ACP option.

Low entry price to get loading data that is proven.
Just a heads up.

I subscribe but I think it's just a bad habit. I'm primarily an action pistol shooter. Most of the ammo I load for .38 Super, 9mm and 40 S&W are off the charts so to speak and load data is usually censored to eliminate the "dangerous" stuff.

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Bob.
SWCA 1821

Try it yourself and see what you get. I put in 9mm 124 gr bullet and most of the data is from the powder companies or from one of the manuals I already have.

Hornady, Speer. Lyman

They do not have any top secret squirrel loads.

Quick load is based on algorithms, guess it's fun the play with for those that like tech stuff, I have no need for either of them.


Besides so many people just ask on reloading forums "whats a good load for xyz"

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Still Running Against the Wind

I subscribe to it, have for several years. To answer your question about how useful it is, IMO it depends on how many cartirges you reload for. I reload for a bunch of rifle and handgun rounds and the site is useful for me. If you are loading for three or four different rounds, then a current loading manual or two will probably suffice.

I tried it once . Could not access a damn thing . Called & complained . Nobody was able or willing to make it work for me . Paid for nothing . Canceled all my subscriptions to all of Wolf Publishing items . Never again will they get a cent from me .
Quick Load I do have . When thinking about something new to try it'll give you an idea what powders will give best velocity with an estimate of pressure & load density etc. . You have to enter data like case capacity etc. The more data you enter the more germane the results . It is not a loading manual however . Not all powders & bullets are in their data base nor are all cartridges . Where they get you is updates you pay for every single time they update . NECO distributes it in the USA , program comes from Germany & is frequently held up in US Customs . Unlike LoadData you actually get something you paid for . Lived without both for many years so depends on how much you like to research .

Hodgdon online data is online and free. I refer to it when I need to and have confidence in it.
Jim

I've been a subscriber for many years now and haven't bought a manual since. I think most don't really know what's actually available with the subscription and how powerful its filters are.

I did a random search for 30-06 and found data from Handloader and Rifle magazines, going back to their inception, as well as data from Accurate, Alliant, A-Square, Hodgdon, IMR, Barnes, Lee, Lyman, Norma, Winchester, Ramshot, Somchem, Speer, Nosler, Sierra, Swift, Vihtavuori, Hornady as well as specific data such as loads for M1 Garands, cast bullet loads for a Model 70 Winchester, et al.

At this point in time there are over 315,000 loads available with a subscription.

The filters allow one to any combination of caliber, projectile weight, powder type, powder manufacturer and bullet type (cast or jacketed).

For example, a few days ago I decided to load some .38 Special +P with a 158 gr. cast SWCHP, so that's what I entered in the fields, and that's what I got.

There's hardly a week goes by that data of some sort isn't added.

Best of all, any data one finds is available in a printer-friendly version, so it can be printed, 3-hole punched and put in a binder.

I really prefer the data that comes from the aforementioned magazines because the results are much more realistic than that from labs where the data is developed using universal receivers, special test barrels and barrels whose lengths many times are excessive, giving unrealistic velocities. (Hodgdon for example used a 7 3/4" barrel for their .38 Special data and a 10" barrel for their .357 data.)

There's also some extremely good articles published on the site.

But there will always be that faction of handloaders who prefer thumbing through manuals, which is fine.

Most of the "manufacturers" bullet data is available online as well as all the Powder companies
Many of the Magazines articles form the past are also available

It is kinda like the Lee Manual load data. it is all data copied from someplace else.

Other than data with the "new" powders there is not much really new with say the 38 special.

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Still Running Against the Wind

I'll second .308 scout's positive comments. I've been handloading since I was 12 (43 years now) and I have a large number of loading manuals in various editions, but I still subscribe to loaddata.com.

As noted the search filters make it quick and easy to find a particular bullet weight and type or powder, etc.

It also contains a lot of very specific data on some fairly obscure rounds. For example 7.62 Micro Whisper isn't going to show up in a reloading manual. It also offers a data fired in very specific firearms, which can help give you a very good baseline for performance in similar firearms as opposed to data fired in test barrels.

"Uncommon Guns for Uncommon Men"

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Still Running Against the Wind

I tried the site for a while. I think it works best if compared with published data from known reputable sources. I have most editions of HANDLOADER and RIFLE magazines going back to the '60s and the bulk of the of the data (maybe all of it) comes from there. Most of the data has not been pressure tested and some (probably a very small percentage) of the really old data may be questionable from a safety perspective, just like some old load manuals. For this reason, a novice should really be careful with loaddata.com.

Aside from the caution, there is a lot of good data worked up by the best and some of the best writers in the business, no self-ordained quasi-experts among them.

Zero reason to pay for load data IMO. There are plenty of older manuals available online(free for the download), along with numerous manufacturer's sites with data available.

I use it and it’s pretty good IMO.

There’s lots of loads originally published in Handloader magazine that you won’t find in any manual.

Besides that it’s easily searchable, so I don’t roam the web looking through scanned images of old manuals.

9mm and .38 Super I get, but why go “off the charts” with .40 S&W? It should make major easily.