stillquietvoice
Contributing Member
I went and picked up my 16 yo granddaughter, that I've had to the range, and started talking about reloading bullets. She was all in. Told me she thought that you could only buy ammo to shoot.
Well I said that I needed help to see the lines on my balance beam scale. I explained zeroing the beam and setting the charge weight... About consistency was the key to small groups. It all made sense to her. She charged 25 cases and did visual inspection to confirm equal powder fill. Then explained differences in bullet types while demonstrating setting the seating die for oal. She then loaded 25 50 gr hornandy sp bullets and marked each one with powder type, change weight, oal and bullet type. She measured each cartridge with my blue point digital calipers.
When she was done with those she had to go home, but kept saying how fun and relaxing was and wants to come back tomorrow to do more so we can go shoot them.
Well I said that I needed help to see the lines on my balance beam scale. I explained zeroing the beam and setting the charge weight... About consistency was the key to small groups. It all made sense to her. She charged 25 cases and did visual inspection to confirm equal powder fill. Then explained differences in bullet types while demonstrating setting the seating die for oal. She then loaded 25 50 gr hornandy sp bullets and marked each one with powder type, change weight, oal and bullet type. She measured each cartridge with my blue point digital calipers.
When she was done with those she had to go home, but kept saying how fun and relaxing was and wants to come back tomorrow to do more so we can go shoot them.