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I'm preparing to reload 7.62X39 and found that my .223/.308 common powder, CFE223, is a no-go for 7.62X39. Comparing the Lee, Speer, Hornady and Lyman manuals I come up with five candidates: Accurate 2230, Hodgdon 322, Hodgdon 335, Hodgdon BL-C(2) and IMR 4895. If anyone here has experience with...

Hadn't reloaded for a while. Cranked up the 40 S&W setup and charged the first case. Thought I'd been shot. The spring broke and thumped me hard in the chest. About two years old and not much more than 1K rounds made with it. Like other Lee parts that break, I'm ordering multiple spares. Still...

What is our collective mantra as reloaders? "I reload because at some point I may not be able to buy factory ammo." That needs to change to "I buy factory ammo now because I cannot buy powder to reload, and I worry that I will not be able to buy factory ammo later." The domestic and geopolitical...

I freely admit that I suffer from the Dunning-Kruger Effect: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=743977&highlight=dunning And I cheerfully stipulate the truth of the commonly-held opinion here that "Lee's low prices attract reloaders of lesser intelligence." That said, I have a...

Since it uses higher volume charges than Titegroup I am thinking it may alleviate some of the misery of reloading 32 ACP. Curiously they have loads for 380 ACP on up, but not for 32.

Old hands may say "Everybody knows that!", haha! But I didn't. Was sorting some 40 S&Ws when I heard repeated ringing sounds as I tossed brass into one pile. The normal case sound is like a short low pitched "tink" which quickly dies away. This was a higher pitched ringing "tingggggg". Case had...

A poster here recently made the brilliant distinction between handloaders, who strive for accuracy, and reloaders like me who just want to blast away and make lots of noise as cheaply as possible. Well, last week I got religion. I bought a Beretta CX4 carbine, and shooting it made it clear that...

Was out in the courtyard today when the FedEx guy delivered. He said brightly: "Here's your bullets!" They weren't overpacked. Come Armageddon, I suspect the needy will all come to my house.

I recently bought 1000 allegedly once-fired cases from my favorite sleazy case vendor. The price was good, but it took me longer to research the headstamps than to sort the cases. Bullets? They are now made of that rare element Unobtanium. Factory new? Now 50 to 60 cents! As a mercantile friend...

Ever on the search for something obscure and trivial and banal to post not found by the search function and hopefully nonconfrontational to the uber-accurate reloading fraternity, tonight I sordid through about 2000 32 acp cases. (Yes, I am that desperate for cheap entertainment.) The jewel...

I don't get it. Over and over here I see people post questions like "I just bought this bullet for .XX cal and I want to use YY powder but I can't find data and OAL for that combination." Maybe I am just stupid but to me my guns are more important than my ammo, so I find what works reliably in...

I am posting this so that I will can refer to it as seems helpful. The gist of it is that the less you know about a particular subject you are learning, the more you think you know. Conversely, the more you truly do know about a subject that you have studied for a lifetime, the less it seems to...

Last week I reloaded a box of cats and dogs range pickup brass. When I inspected them I noticed some shallowly set primers. I gave them the wobble test, and nine of them came up wobblies. All were ARMSCOR USA, out of twelve ARSCOR cases in total. I pulled the worst two apart, and found that the...

Range report to follow next week.

Recently I reloaded mixed headstamp 40 S&W's. Starting to shoot them up, I had a squib. Could it have been me? Nah, it must have been Lee. Anyway, I didn't want to tear the whole batch apart to check for other squibs, so I laboriously measured samplings of case weights for each headstamp...

It being a small world, someone somewhere may want like me to emulate Federal American Eagle's 130 grain 38 Special using Titegroup and Berry's 125 grain plated tapered flatnose. I settled in on 4.6 grains largely because that's about what Lee's 0.40 cc disk throws. Felt recoil is...

Monkey see, monkey do. The disreputable gun range I haunt has a gallon dispenser of D-Lead on the cleanup sink, so I bought some and have been using it for a week at home. Anyone have experience with it? If it's all marketing hype, it is too dear to buy.

Apologies if not new to you, was new to me: http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=headstampcodes

No offense to the members intended, just looking to expand my horizons. Based on a couple of weeks of searching and reading, I think that this is it. Most credible experience and opinions. Most helpful responses. Greatest depth of topics. The most posts. But where else do you go for additional...