Cheapest primers and most common/popular powders?

[BullfrogKen]

No . . . your school advisor is not appropriate for these questions.

And you need to find someone local to you. There are questions you don't even know you need to ask. You don't know what you don't know.


I strenuously encourage you to find a mentor who has been there/done that before you go running out to get your FFL and forming gun clubs at your school.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

No . . . your school advisor is not appropriate for these questions.

And you need to find someone local to you. There are questions you don't even know you need to ask. You don't know what you don't know.


I strenuously encourage you to find a mentor who has been there/done that before you go running out to get your FFL and forming gun clubs at your school.

This is very good advice, listen to the man!

 

[greenlion]

I would think powder and primer recommendations would depend on WHAT you are reloading. You haven't said yet....

 

[JerZsquid]

I just picked up some 231, ram shot, and clays from my lgs

 

[acfixerdude]

I would think powder and primer recommendations would depend on WHAT you are reloading. You haven't said yet....

I thought I mentioned this before... we would be reloading for rifle, shotgun and pistols.

 

[1SOW]

acfixer: Your best bet is to "consolidate" multiple orders into a group buy.

re comments on 231 being "smokey". All the loads listed were light target loads. Loaded light, 231/HP-38 (which is the same powder but often cheaper) will burn leaving a "sooty" residue until preassures getjust a little higher. Add just a couple or three more tenths of a grain and it'll burn clean.
4.3grains under a 124gr fmj 9mm, will leave sooty residue throughout the pistol. At 4.5grs it's starts getting much "cleaner".

 

[Bovice]

LOL I'm just curious... But what is your advisor's background in firearms and reloading? The "advisors" I've had during my time in the engineering college were/are total pinheads. If it wasn't in their textbook, they don't know a thing about it. Even if it was in the textbook, it wasn't written in Mandarin and they probably still don't understand it to teach it to English-speaking students. While they might be regarded at the university as being smart people, I see right through them. I would never take their advice on anything, especially not something that could kill or maim me.

 

[acfixerdude]

acfixer: Your best bet is to "consolidate" multiple orders into a group buy.

re comments on 231 being "smokey". All the loads listed were light target loads. Loaded light, 231/HP-38 (which is the same powder but often cheaper) will burn leaving a "sooty" residue until preassures getjust a little higher. Add just a couple or three more tenths of a grain and it'll burn clean.
4.3grains under a 124gr fmj 9mm, will leave sooty residue throughout the pistol. At 4.5grs it's starts getting much "cleaner".

Thanks for the tip. My reload book list max 4.4grains... I'll try that first, maybe step it up if its still bad.

 

[acfixerdude]

LOL I'm just curious... But what is your advisor's background in firearms and reloading? The "advisors" I've had during my time in the engineering college were/are total pinheads. If it wasn't in their textbook, they don't know a thing about it. Even if it was in the textbook, it wasn't written in Mandarin and they probably still don't understand it to teach it to English-speaking students. While they might be regarded at the university as being smart people, I see right through them. I would never take their advice on anything, especially not something that could kill or maim me.

Club advisers we can choose ourselves. Our adviser has been doing IDPA for a long time and has been reloading pistol rounds for years.