Hnatiuk's reloading course in Lantz NS

I have not taken their course myself but I've heard positives about it. If you join the novascotiahunting dot com forum, there is a reloading forum and you can pick some brains. There are some good guys in your area that I am sure would help you out. It's a great hobby.
 
If you are an AMA member, I occasionally (when there's enough demand) run a reloading course for the club. I bring about $5000 worth of my reloading junk in and walk you through what you need, what I've wasted my money on, how a single-stage press works and what each step of loading is, then how a progressive press works with a Dillon 550.

Then each student loads a few rounds of 9mm on the progressive, and we go test-fire them on the range.

I have handouts, and if you bring in your reloading gear, we can go through it and help you set it up.

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I took the reloading course at Hnatiuk's....not sure who is running it now but when I took it they concentrated far too much on ballistics (bullet weights, burn rates, etc.) and not enough on the actual reloading hows and whys.....my opinion... find someone with some knowledge and patience and pick their brain....you'll save enough money to buy some powder and still learn lots :)
 
Brad's course is recommended or join NSRA who have many top shooters in rifle and handgun that do precision reloading and are helpful.

Don't know about Hnatiuks.

Best regards,

Peter
 
guppie1160 said:
I took the reloading course at Hnatiuk's....not sure who is running it now but when I took it they concentrated far too much on ballistics (bullet weights, burn rates, etc.) and not enough on the actual reloading hows and whys.....my opinion... find someone with some knowledge and patience and pick their brain....you'll save enough money to buy some powder and still learn lots :)
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This is basically what I have heard about the course. I've talked to people who have taken course they said they learned more in an hour with me than in the course. They found it was a boring course. Price was very high price. Take the fellows offer at AMA or set something up with one of us close by. Iam in South Rawdon , 45 minutes out of burnside. A good reloading manual such as Lyman is strongly recommend.
 
I been reloading for over 30 years. There wasn't any courses when I started. Everything I learned all came from books, now everything is online.
I can't remember how many time I showed someone how to reload a rifle cartridge.
I still don't mind helping someone learn reloading.
 
gerard said:
I been reloading for over 30 years. There wasn't any courses when I started. Everything I learned all came from books, now everything is online.
I can't remember how many time I showed someone how to reload a rifle cartridge.
I still don't mind helping someone learn reloading.
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I can remember easily how many times I taught someone to reload and that was once, to a prepper, who thought it was stupid because you couldn't make primers that were 100% reliable. I told him just buy 2 lifetimes supply of them, and then we both shut up and played some WWE on his xbizzle
 
Some clubs offer basic reloading courses. AVSSC in Kentville has a couple guys that have done it in the past, Marcel Kolb put on the one I took a couple years ago. If I remember right, it was $10 for club members. Each person loaded 5 rounds of .308 from start to finish, with a few extras like how to measure to the ogive. Some good information to get you started, then you can concentrate on the direction you want to go with it. Some load for independence from factory ammo, some think it's cheaper, some want volume, then there's the nut cases like myself that want the most accurate ammo possible. It's quite a rabbit hole.
Teaching someone to load safely takes a few hours, at minimum. A mentor is your best bet, if you can find someone with the patience and interest in doing that.
A friend walked me through the process again, after we both took the club course. He had been loading for about a year before I decided I wanted to start.
 
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