What is the smallest round you will reload?

[9mmfan]

Prolly .38 Special/.357. Unless you count M2 ball/.30-06 as smaller, due to the caliber of the bullet itself. I suppose I could also load 7.62 Nagant, but I know bupkis about that at the moment. I was mainly looking to start reloading due to the price of .45 Colt, as I find my Cimarron loads of fun to shoot. Then I got my M1, and can't shoot magnet attracting milsurp ammo at the range I normally frequent. As I learn more, I am sure I will zero in, so to speak, on tweaking accuracy. Assuming I don't blow myself up in the meantime.

 

[j1]

Hornet because of both price and accuracy and cause I just love my little Hornet and love to reload for it. About 650 reloads to a pound of powder. Not much noise and a stone killer at up to 200 yards.

 

[shuvelrider]

218-Bee, the last time I looked at Cabela's In Dundee MI they were asking $75 a box of 50. Got my dad's Winnie Mod 43 and 65 in that caliber and when I do take them out for a walk, I don't want to be a Scrooge when It comes to shooting them.

 

[Legion489]

.25 ACP. Anything smaller just isn't worth screwing with to me. I still find it at the range and being able to load what I want, when I want, is important, as I don't want some gov't flunky telling me what I can and can't do with my life/guns. Of course 40+ years ago when I predicted we would have the gun control we have, the gov't control over what we say, think and do, seat belt laws, traffic cameras on every corner, gov't corruption at every turn, I was told I was a nut case. Now it is all normal and wonderful.

 

[bluetopper]

36 grain bullets in 223 for my Thompson Contender. Fun!

 

[GLOOB]

I would load any caliber I wished to either shoot a bunch, or hoard a bunch. Currently I load .380, but if I could go back in time, I'd never have bought the dies. I just don't shoot enough of it, and I have never even owned a .380.

 

[Cherokee]

25 ACP on up to the heavy hitters. Its fun to load them and to shoot them.

 

[Sound Dude]

.32ACP / .32 S&W - handgun
.22 Hornet - Rifle

 

[DC Plumber]

38 special, because it is the smallest cartridge that I shoot enough to justify reloading. I have a .380, but only shoot 50 rounds per year with it.

I had a 218 Bee, which was getting a little too small for my fingers, but I sold it.

 

[Clark]

I reload 25acp.

I have all the stuff to reload 19 Badger, but do not do it often.

 

[Bigdog57]

.22 Hornet at present, though if I can get a project going, I hope to reload the FN 5.7 case for rifle shooting.

 

[GCBurner]

Everytime I've added a new calibre to the stable, I've gotten the reloading dies to go with it. I run from .25 ACP to .577-450 Martini-Henry now.

 

[mallc]

As small as they go

5.7x28 and .25 ACP