Poll: How long have you been reloading?

I started reloading in 1982 - 44 Magnum

I'm very new and I'll be doing it for the rest of my life.

Started right around '87, so I voted 30+

*Edit* started with .44mag

1968 - 30-06 and 32 WS

It’s been a little over 10 years for me

Started around 1963

Likewise started around 1968 or thereabouts working with my grandfather. Around 1974-75 with my own press and gear. Been a fun trip!

1972, started with 12ga trap loads and a Mec Jr press. A year later and I started metallic reloading with a Redding C press and a set of 243 dies.

FROGO207 said:

...Been a fun trip!

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1967 - 7.5 Swiss for a K11 Schmidt-Ruben straight pull rifle .
I still have it ... Sporterized it with a nice Herter's walnut sporter stock blank .
Replaced military rear sights with a neat adjustable Mojo sight and worked over the front sight with file and hacksaw to a more pleasing profile .... fiber-glass bedded the action and barrel channel but messed up the job ... my first ... I now am working to chisel out all the old fiberglass bedding and redo it ...
Just call me Bubba ... Hey ... it was 1967 and bubba-rizing military surplus was THE thing to do !
Gary

Right around 1990, after I got out of the Army. I started loading .45's and .41's on my brother's RCBS RS3 press. I would scoop Unique into the 5-0-5 pan using a 1/4tsp I stole from the kitchen... and I still have that spoon upstairs!

2002. Started with 20 ga and 243.

1987 so far 195,275 rounds.

1978. Was 12. Made .38 Special Wadcutters 2.7 Grains of Bullseye for my Dad to shoot every week in the Bullseye days. Still load on that same RCBS Rockchucker Press.

I signed up to THR right before I started reloading. So just barely 5 years for me now.

I’ve been off and on since ‘75. Between job and living condition changes I have not always been able to handload. For a while in the ‘80’s shooting just wasn’t part of my life. I didn’t even own a gun for a year or so. I’ll probably always be an occasional handloader but I take it very seriously, always.

I started with a Dillon 550. My wife and kids secretly saved up enough for me to buy a Colt 1911 for my 40th birthday. I decided to jump down the reloading rabbit hole instead.

Man this hole is deep.

I just turned 45 last week. In those 5 years I've loaded over 24k rounds now, so I'm just getting warmed up.

1965 started with RCBS equipment loading for MY Brand New 7mm Rem Mag Mauser 3K L , also 30-06 .44 Mag and 9mm .
As years have gone by O MY #17 Calibers plus # 3 shotshell calibers and 100's of K's of rounds later ; Still got both eyes #8 fingers #2 thumbs ditto for ears and misfires I can count on #1 hand .

Reminds Me of that song Robert Shaw sang in Jaws , about not being bad a bad record for the gals in that vicinity

Started in 1974 with 30-06 and a Lee Whack-a-Mole reloader. It was a Christmas gift from my brother. The single most expensive Christmas gift I ever received. I now own a RockChucker, Dillon 450, Dillon 550, Lee Cheap anniversary press, 40+ die sets, 30+ bullet molds, and TOO much brass.

I had to give this some thought, I have been intermittantly reloading since the mid '60's , recall reloading 12 gauge because that was the only way i could afford hunting dove after high school. After high school life kind of got in the way, job , kids etc. After retirement about 8 years ago I rediscovered the joys of reloading

I started participating in reloading for the ammo I was shooting around 1988 or ‘89, and have been reloading on my own gear since 1996, and would have reloaded end-to-end for the first time some time ‘93-94, on my uncle’s gearset.

Cheesemaker said:

I started reloading in 1982 - 44 Magnum

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I started 2 years after you with the same cartridge.

I started in the mid '70s when my wife and I were living in a single-wide mobile home with a tip-out on the back bedroom that was just wide enough for a clothes washer/dryer combo OR a reloading bench. In 1979, my wife said we had to move to a bigger house that had room for a clothes washer and dryer combo AND a reloading bench because she was tired of going to the laundromat.
BTW, we recently replaced our first clothes washer/dryer combo - after many repairs over the years to our first one. And seeing as how we paid close to $2,000 for our new clothes washer and dryer combo, we have a lot more money tied up in washing and drying clothes than we have in building our own ammo. And that doesn't even include what we paid for this house so that we'd have room to launder clothes AND build ammo.

Started summer of 2018 while living in an apartment. C-clamped my press to a table to use it, and put it all away when I was done in case maintenance had to come in.

Only made a little over 3K rounds so far, but I'm slow and careful and have lots of other things that take up my time. I load for six calibers now, and getting ready to start number seven.

chris