375supermag
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Hi...
Yesterday morning my son and I put 200 rounds through seven different .357Mag handguns.
These were the first .357Mag reloads he has ever reloaded. I have tried to get him to reload for years but he was content to shoot my reloads. I finally got him convinced that he needed to learn how to reload.
He reloaded 250 rounds of .45ACP a couple of weeks ago and we shot all of them with no issues.
He was thrilled and immediately hooked.
We set my second Hornady progressive up for .357Mag and he did all of the die adjustments and cranked out those rounds in about an hour and a half or so, IIRC.
He would have loaded more of both calibers but I ran out of bullets.
He is talking about ordering 1000 bullets in both calibers and is already planning to buy a Dillon 650. I have two Hornady LnL progressives and I don't think we need a Dillon but he is excited about trying one out.
He seems to be happy with one Hornady set up for large primer and one set up for small primer. I told him we could get additional powder measures so we could have dedicated measures for the other calibers we shoot but he wants to see what all the hype about Dillon's is for himself.
I have plenty of space in my reloading room for another progressive press, so I suppose we will split the cost of a Dillon 650. He shoots a lot of 10mm and wants to start with that caliber on the 650 when we get it.
I may have created a monster...
Yesterday morning my son and I put 200 rounds through seven different .357Mag handguns.
These were the first .357Mag reloads he has ever reloaded. I have tried to get him to reload for years but he was content to shoot my reloads. I finally got him convinced that he needed to learn how to reload.
He reloaded 250 rounds of .45ACP a couple of weeks ago and we shot all of them with no issues.
He was thrilled and immediately hooked.
We set my second Hornady progressive up for .357Mag and he did all of the die adjustments and cranked out those rounds in about an hour and a half or so, IIRC.
He would have loaded more of both calibers but I ran out of bullets.
He is talking about ordering 1000 bullets in both calibers and is already planning to buy a Dillon 650. I have two Hornady LnL progressives and I don't think we need a Dillon but he is excited about trying one out.
He seems to be happy with one Hornady set up for large primer and one set up for small primer. I told him we could get additional powder measures so we could have dedicated measures for the other calibers we shoot but he wants to see what all the hype about Dillon's is for himself.
I have plenty of space in my reloading room for another progressive press, so I suppose we will split the cost of a Dillon 650. He shoots a lot of 10mm and wants to start with that caliber on the 650 when we get it.
I may have created a monster...