Ah My Good Netizens ....
I Myself maintain that there are no stupid questions.
Only stupid philosposhpers philsopophers phylosoficocles philosophers.
and misspellers.
But there are some folks who don't want to do the basic work first, such as buying and reading a manual.
Shoot, that is like a fellow who thinks he is handy guy jumping into a forum and asking "teach me how to
build a shed" .... there are entier books just on that topic, many are free online or in the library.
An in that case, Mister Google is his friend.
However, If a fella has at least tried to look up data, and then gets flumoxed for a variety of reasons,
be they older powder vs newer manuals; or older manuals vs newer data; or my favorite:
new powder they never tried vs the different charts on the same powder from different manuals
as long as a fella puts in some effort to start with and provides pertinant info ...
such as
" I have a Pietta Remington 1858 Cartridge conversion and I want to shoot a 225 gr lead .452 bullet
in a .45 Colt/Schofield/Cowboy case."
then proceeds with
"I tried the manufacturors website, but it only offered 2 loads "
or
"2020 Lyman manual says x grains but 2019 Lee says Y grains"
or
"I want to shoot a 225 gr bullet but only find data for 255"
or some such
at least he is
a) putting in the effort in the right direction to start with
2) asking an intelligent question, and providing useful pertinant info
III) actually using a manual first
often one necounters problems like Wildman , dealing with same-named-powder-from-new-maker,
or like Snake Oil, looking for a consensus of "what seems to work for folks" vs "doing the ladder loading process"
or like others trying to find loads for obscure cartridges.
Thus, and therefore, in such cases I am more than willing to engage in long, drawn out, overly verbose
internet dialogues and arguements discussions .
However there are the wackadoodles like Longwalker ran across....
Look at it this way - it gives us something to talk about, instead of dead air on the forum.