Have to admit it, I love reloading!

[maynard]

You guys are a bunch of sick bastards.

If you really like it, I have 1200 Lapua .308 cases already resized, cleaned and primed, just waiting for you to put the powder in and seat the bullet. You are more than welcome to come to my place and have at it. However you will need the weigh every charge to within .02 gr. I will supply all the components, press, dies, scale etc and will buy the beer at the end of your shift as long as you promise to come back every day until they are finished.

In the fall/winter you can come back and resize, clean, trim (you can use my Gracey power trimmer) weight sort and prime them again, to start this cycle all over again.

PM me if you are interested. First "I'll do it" can start tomorrow

 

[Got Juice?]

I started reloading shotshell first for sporting clays. But as time went on, I got a bit bored of it.
Then I started in IPSC and discovered that I had to reload, so a Dillon 550 became a fixture in my workshop.
Well, as things go, I decided to shoot more and that made a Dillon 1050 necessary, and if course, the rf100 primer filler.
Then gopher season came, and a .204 Savage LRPV was acquired on trade
So the 550 was pressed (lol) into duty for varmint load development.

Next thing you know, I have 20' of reloading bench built, 3 presses set up, plus a 4' fieldstripping station.

Craziness that never ends.

 

[caramel]

If peoples think reloading is for financial reasons, they better think again, reloading when really hooked on is quite an investement but it is worth every penny of it... JP.

 

[FLSTFO2]

Yeah, I started with thinking I'd save money, jeez was I wrong.
I just hope the little woman never see's any of the receipts.

 

[hunter64]

Just wait until your pour your first lead bullet, you think reloading is addictive. I reloaded for nearly 20 years before trying pouring my own, now the only time I buy bullets is if I need fmj bullets to feed my .223's . You can pour your own .224 bullets but my fingers are so big and they are so small and it is a pain to reload .223 as it is I break down and buy the bullets.

 

[Guy JR]

You guys are a bunch of sick bastards.

If you really like it, I have 1200 Lapua .308 cases already resized, cleaned and primed, just waiting for you to put the powder in and seat the bullet. You are more than welcome to come to my place and have at it. However you will need the weigh every charge to within .02 gr. I will supply all the components, press, dies, scale etc and will buy the beer at the end of your shift as long as you promise to come back every day until they are finished.

In the fall/winter you can come back and resize, clean, trim (you can use my Gracey power trimmer) weight sort and prime them again, to start this cycle all over again.

PM me if you are interested. First "I'll do it" can start tomorrow

Sounds like you could use a scale/dispencer combo. I reloaded for 10 years before buying one and it has changed my world when it comes to reloading. 1200 rounds is still a big job though.

 

[rnbra-shooter]

Damn I hate it when people have read Tom Sawyer....

(personally, I quite like loading; even if I didn't shoot I think I'd still love to load)

You are more than welcome to come to my place and have at it. However you will need the weigh every charge to within .02 gr.

Nahh maynard, be lazy, don't weigh your charges so precisely.... use magic bullets instead.

I was trying out some Berger 155 Hybrids last Friday. With thrown powder charges I got some pretty happy results. Admittedly it's only ~10 shots at each distance, but it sure is a promising start, some reasonably decent vertical spread (especially when I don't shank a shot!) at 900m:

..and also at 1000m (first time I've ever shot that distance):

 

[maynard]

What? No takers yet? Think of the experience you will get making match ammo.

Daniel, nice shooting but think of how well they could have been with weighed charges.
All the ammo I load will shoot well from 300-1000 yards. That way I don't get to the line with good 300m ammo that ends up being crap at 900m/1000 yards.

I have some new magic bullets to try out at 900 and 1000 yards on Sunday. New 155gr Barnes Match Burners.

 

[rnbra-shooter]

maynard do let us know how that Barnes 155s do. We are so luck to have such a wide variety of good bullets to choose from these days.

maynard makes a great point - a common practice in TR shooting is to us the SAME AMMO at all of the distances we shoot (300, 500, 600, 800m and 900m). Make your ammo good, make it shoot well at all distances, and avoid having to worry about "is this box my short-range ammo, or my long-range ammo" etc. Just one small step in the ongoing battle against Murphy...

 

[Dwag]

Hi my name is Dwag and I'm a reloader. Looking forward to getting my five year coin.LOL.

 

[2308500]

i can drink ALOT of beer, so much so that it may be more cost effective to shoot store bought 50. BMG

 

[gushulak]

I love to reload, one of the hobbies to feed the guns that is fun!

 

[gvanzeggelaar]

Now you need to start casting.

 

[gunrunner8]

Just wait until your pour your first lead bullet, you think reloading is addictive. I reloaded for nearly 20 years before trying pouring my own, now the only time I buy bullets is if I need fmj bullets to feed my .223's .

Indeed, the real fun starts when you can shoot and hunt with your own bullets in cartriges that can be reloaded for less than 15 cents each. Between my slugs in 16ga and 20ga my 38sp, 357mag and 35Rem I use more than 50lbs of w-w plus some pure lead, lino and tin per year so my big stash of lead used over the years is not as big anymore and getting the w-w is not as easy latelly....GR8

 

[Canadian Dad]

It can be frustrating tho as a newbie. I have slowly been mentoring myself. Careful and slow but I now have a load or two that I can call my own. Too bad that barrels are so slow to cool.....
I just wish that I didn't have so many calibers to deal with! Plus I can't believe that a .270 Winchester in a model 70 fires different than a .270 Win in a Savage! WTH?

 

[maynard]

Plus I can't believe that a .270 Winchester in a model 70 fires different than a .270 Win in a Savage! WTH?

Barrel harmonics, bore and groove diameter, barrel crown, rate of twist, chamber free bore length and dia., chamber dimensions you name it. Two rifles coming off the line one behind the other will shoot the same ammo differently.

 

[hunter64]

It can be frustrating tho as a newbie. I have slowly been mentoring myself.

Try doing it 40 years ago when there was no Internet and only a few gun mags and the library. Took me a while before I started to get the hang of it but it has been an enjoyable trip.

There is a wealth of info now available to the novice reloader. If you can get somebody to show you the basics you can learn more in 2 hours at a bench with a teacher than weeks reading books.

 

[EC]

I must be the minority here. I reload to shoot, not shoot to reload. I have been around rifles all my life and just recently started reloading for competition shooting. I would much rather spend my time doing other things than reloading but its a necessary evil. to each his own though.