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Brand new to the game. I will be loading 9mm and 22-250 for coyote. Planning on vmax bullets and so so many different powders out there.
I bought the lee classic turret kit, dont even have it yet lol.looking for any advice anyone wants to give. Be nice to find best place (cheapest) for powder and bullets in Ontario.
I have the Lyman 49th reloading handbook, will be staying within paramaters
Thats for sure.
 
Cheapest place to get components isn't in ontario. For 9mm, Get Fiocchi primers, titegroup powder and campro or berry bullets at western metal. Free shipping for orders over 300$. For 3000 rounds, get 3000 primers, 3000 bullets and 2 pounds of titegroup. You'll have some powder left after you're done.

They also have components suitable for 22-250, but I don't shoot that calibre, so can't help you much. x-reload will have everything you can think of.
 
Being fairly new to rifle reloading myself, I'd suggest you buy components in smallish quantities until you know what works best in your rifle. 100 bullets at a time will give you enough to do some load testing, if you like the results you can always buy more. 50 might not be enough. Luckily, varmint bullets are relatively inexpensive.
Same thing with primers and powder. A pound of powder will load 175 rounds at 40 grains per round, that should be enough to determine if it's what you want to stay with or not. Over time you'll end up with half a pound of this, half a pound of that. That's fine, since it gives you some choice to pick from when you change components or even rifles. 7.5 pounds of a powder that didn't work well for you is a different situation, since you could have tried several different powders for what you paid for the 8 pounder.
If you know anyone that will loan you a Hornady manual for a few days, you can check out the pages pertaining to 22-250.
The Nosler Ballistic Tip Varmint bullets shoot well for me, prices are similar to Hornady. Their reloading manual is available online free of charge.
The Hodgdon website has some good information, although whether they use the same bullet you have is hit or miss.
You'll probably want a chronograph at some point, to correlate what you expect to see with what you're actually getting for velocity. Then you can plug your actual results into a ballistics calculator to determine bullet drop at range "X".
The same powder charge, same primer, etc in two different brands of brass MAY give you significantly different velocity. Without a chrony it's hard to see that difference without extensive range testing at longer ranges. The difference between 3000 and 3200 fps isn't much at 100 yards, but at 500 yds it's substantial.
 
Ive found most of my reloading stuff at local gun shows, or from guys at the range its usually much cheaper than on the EE. Tenda has good prices on the components regularly in its sales promotions.
 
One of the difficulties I see with new loaders is the powder selection.

For handgun (9mm) I suggest a medium speed powder. This will allow you to make economical and accurate ammo. If you select a slow pistol powder, you can make the very highest possible velocity ammo, but that powder tends to be erratic as soon as you down load it.

TiteGroup is a very good choice. Also good for 9mm is Win 231, Viht N-320 and CFE Pistol. See what your supplier has.

Frank at DRG cast lead pistol bullets for around $33/500. I have found that his 135 gr Lead round Nose (LRN) works well in all my 9mm pistols. He also stocks powder and primers. He is worth a visit. 519 824-5040

As for the 22-250, a medium to medium slow powder will work well. Something between 4895 and 4350. I would choose Varget if i was going to weigh each charge, or BLC2, Win 748 or Win 760 if I wanted to throw the charges.
 
Check with Humminson..

My thoughts exactly, they are in Ancaster and you can pickup any order without shipping OR Hazmat fees.

The last time I purchased there (2017) Titegroup was $26 / lb & $195 / 8 lb
They stock Hodgdon, IMR, Winchester and Alliant powders and Federal, CCI and Winchester primers and a few other shotshell reloading items

fyi, Hummason Manufacturing Ltd. is a "no frills" business ;) "We accept the following Payment Methods: Cash, Cheques, Debit"
 
I buy some powders from Hummason. I buy my pistol bullets from DRG in Guelph. But Hummason also has DRG.

If buying powder from Hummason, it is best to call ahead to find out if they have what you want and to give them a day's warning, in case they have to pull it from their powder magazine, which is not at the store.
 
In addition to the above, you could try Reloder 15. You may have to try a few different powders as one will work well with 52 grain bullets, but not with 60 grain bullets. Also, you may be limited in your bullet selection by the twist rate of your barrel.
 
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