about 3 years ago I inhereted reloading equipmnet, and had been exposed to it a bit as a youth, but never did any myself. Took me about a year to collect it, and go through the tub in my basement and identify what was what. I knew nothing, there's a few posts on here I made, if you want to amuse yourself at how little a person can know.
I've mostly just practices with it. I've made .32 ACP and ..38 Special - and actually shot some of the .38 Special, worked fine. Much lighter than factory loads, so - they all went bang and that was the idea. I've since decided .32 ACP is a pain and I should not have even tried it. The scale is a bit difficult being so small, but also the cases tend to bulge easily in my experience. Well, for now I'm just not going to do anything with that cartrdige due to personal reasons ... lol
I've made dummy rounds that seem to check out in 9mm, .223 Remington, 30-30 Win, and 30-06
I think this next season, after winter - I'll just plan to load .38 Special and 9mm. I think I can load the rifle cartrdges correctly, but I don't mind shooting factory ammo. We don't really go through that much. At some point, I'd like to load them though - I just like the idea of it. However, I feel like I should stick to the pistol cartrdiges for a while, load and shoot more, and see if I run into any issues. Sort of as a sanity check on myself, before handloading rifle cartrdiges. Maybe I overthink things, but the pressures and nrg in a rifle is just a whole other level.... literally.
Anyway, that's my reloading journey, a hobby I don't really haven enough time for, but it makes an interesting longer term project to keep working on over time. Thanks for this site - I've picked up a ton here and fun to see there are other's out there. I don't think I know anyone else who reloads at all.
I've mostly just practices with it. I've made .32 ACP and ..38 Special - and actually shot some of the .38 Special, worked fine. Much lighter than factory loads, so - they all went bang and that was the idea. I've since decided .32 ACP is a pain and I should not have even tried it. The scale is a bit difficult being so small, but also the cases tend to bulge easily in my experience. Well, for now I'm just not going to do anything with that cartrdige due to personal reasons ... lol
I've made dummy rounds that seem to check out in 9mm, .223 Remington, 30-30 Win, and 30-06
I think this next season, after winter - I'll just plan to load .38 Special and 9mm. I think I can load the rifle cartrdges correctly, but I don't mind shooting factory ammo. We don't really go through that much. At some point, I'd like to load them though - I just like the idea of it. However, I feel like I should stick to the pistol cartrdiges for a while, load and shoot more, and see if I run into any issues. Sort of as a sanity check on myself, before handloading rifle cartrdiges. Maybe I overthink things, but the pressures and nrg in a rifle is just a whole other level.... literally.
Anyway, that's my reloading journey, a hobby I don't really haven enough time for, but it makes an interesting longer term project to keep working on over time. Thanks for this site - I've picked up a ton here and fun to see there are other's out there. I don't think I know anyone else who reloads at all.