Horskinator
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Bought my RC January 1996 to load for my 30-06. Have expanded a lot since then.
are Jack Rabbits tasty?1962. My dad and I both shot 16’s and good shells were hard to find even then. Started with a MEC 400 in 16 ga , added a 12 ga conversion for my uncle’s shotgun after a year or two.
Chapter two. Metallic. About the same time, the jack rabbits were getting too wary for 22’s so my friends and I dug out the deer rifles, a sporterized 1917 for me. No such thing as light bullet 30-06 at the local stores so I bought a Lee whack-a-mole kit and some 110 gr hp bullets and the rabbits were not safe. I soon figured how to use the Lee and the MEC together so no more hammering primers in.
Went from that to various single stage presses and progressive shotgun presses. Bought a Dillon 450 in 1980, upgraded to 550 when available. Haven’t bought many factory loads since 1962.
WOW! just plain out WOW!I had a good teacher decades ago. I can't even guesstimate how many rounds I have reloaded over the decades. I haven't shot any rounds that were re-loadable since 1965. This includes many thousands of skeet reloads. I have never had a reloading mishap that I didn't catch at my reloading bench. I am forever grateful for the man that taught me to reload.
Awesome...best way to learn... great for you and your familyGot into it late January of 2020. Was looking at purchasing a .new 44 special GP100 that Cabela's had marked way down to clear out their stock. I hesitated for a few days because I just could not see myself paying almost $40 dollars a box for ammo!. Wow things are different now. Anyway I finally decided to buy the gun and they were sold out. So I figured I would get into reloading and be able to buy any caliber I wanted without worrying about ammo cost. I had plenty of 38 special and some .357 mag brass I had been saving. Bought a Lee classic cast single stage press and dies. Bought some Unique powder, a few hundred primers and bullets and got started. Earlier my shooting buddy had warned me off saying reloading was too tedious and only for precision rifle shooters but I found out I actually liked the process way more than I would have guessed. I do admit to making just about all the mistakes one can possible make while learning to re load.
Well timing couldn't I have been better because by mid March the government had us under a loose form of house arrest due to covid. Heeding warnings of a possible shortage, I did manage to score 5k small pistol match primers and 1k large pistol primers and a few hundred magnum primers of the same before primers had vanished from stock. This was just before the lockdown I think. Processing all that brass I saved gave me something to. do while locked up. Feeling really blessed that I started when I did and also that I managed to get the primers I did. Pure luck on my part. Since then I've managed to get enough powder and bullets to use up my remaining primers so my supply is in balance I am set for now and no longer shop for any components. Will wait for the buying panic to settle down I did buy a 41 magnum Henry lever gun (first rifle) and a 41 blackhawk revolver so I did follow through on my plan to buy a non mainstream caliber. While I've loaded a few hundred 9mm and 45 ACP I mostly focus on 38/357 and .41 as they last a lot longer at the range.