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Reloading, where to begin?
I'd like to get into reloading but don't know where to begin. Anyone got some sites or advice? Gonna be fishing around the forums for reload equipment people are selling here.
Right now I'd like to reloaded .308 and .223
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I'm sort of in the same boat you are. I shoot .308, 9mm, and 5.56.
I picked up a couple books, read through them, then started buying quality used pieces here and there.
I think doing it a piece at a time is a bit funner.
-Trample the weak, hurdle the dead-
Start off with getting "the A,B,C's of reloading. Then start searching the internet for all the reloading gone wrong pictures and videos you can stand to look at. then if you still want to reload, remember Pay Attention To The Details ! Reloading is not for the wandering mind or those with short attention spans. And then start off with pistol calibers before getting into rifle ammunition.
Check out http://www.three-peaks.net/reload.htm
the only thing I Have to add is to get a single stage press FIRST.
you will thank yourself for it later.
I would have to disagree, if I started with a single stage press I'd probably quit and never continued to reload. Their are affordable multi-station reloaders out there, but if ur serious about reloading sometimes the "cry once buy once" really comes to play, All though if u don't find reloading your thing reloaders seem to hold their value really well so u could get back as much u put in or get very close.Originally Posted by Byte Stryke
Last edited by DocMedic; 09-06-2011 at 09:10.
I'd agree.
Sometimes people trip and fall down stairs.
Sometimes assholes push people down stairs.
That doesn't mean "stairs are bad" nor does it make someone who pushes someone down the stairs any less of an asshole.
The single stage I bought taught me so much about the importance of each step and the peculiarity of each stage. Exactly what should happen and to what dimension, specification, and tolerance... as well as why.
I find that my tolerances in the progressive press tend not to me as exact.
powder goes from EXACTLY 4.3gr to 4.3 +/- 0.2. my OAL goes from 1.275 to 1.265 +/- .01
it might not be a big deal to some, but I think it helped me allot.
I wish I would have started on a single stage for this exact reason. I love my dillon 450 but I wish I would have gotten a rock chucker kit to start. I also think the odds of something going wrong or being missed by a novice reloader go way up on a progressive or semi-progressive.
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." St. Augustine A.D. 354-430
I have too many 30 round pmags.
lol, I think You guys are crazy for wanting to start on a single press. I know for me when I started to reload I was shooting somewhere around 400 to 500 rnds a week, so a progressive made sense to me even though it was a steeper learning curve. Now, I probably shoot somewhere 800 to 1000+ rnds a week between matches practice and load development. Hell the only way I can keep up with that is upgrading to a Dillon1050 from a 550b. I couldn't even imagine what loading even 300rnds a week would feel like on a single press
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