OLDE RETIRED COASTIE
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Do ya'll remember the first caliber you reloaded for?
For me was a Marlin 1895 45-70. I was stationed in Kodiak, ALASKA, (COAST GUARD)
and ammo was hard to find. At that time was two gun stores there, and no one had ammo for 45-70, so I purchased a used RCBS rock chucker single stage press, RCBS dies, bullets, powder was 3031, was the only powder I could get locally that was even mentioned in my Speer nbr 9 reloading manual, and been loading ever since. Oh that was in 1976.
For those even older than me, Coast Guard took over the old Navy base in Kodiak, in 1971.
For me was a Marlin 1895 45-70. I was stationed in Kodiak, ALASKA, (COAST GUARD)
and ammo was hard to find. At that time was two gun stores there, and no one had ammo for 45-70, so I purchased a used RCBS rock chucker single stage press, RCBS dies, bullets, powder was 3031, was the only powder I could get locally that was even mentioned in my Speer nbr 9 reloading manual, and been loading ever since. Oh that was in 1976.
For those even older than me, Coast Guard took over the old Navy base in Kodiak, in 1971.