Reloading courses

YouTube has a plethora of information. Watch many many videos, not every one is perfect but there are some very good ones online and if you watch a bunch and see some discrepancies you'll be able to tell what the bad ideas are. Also buy some good reloading books, they all have some tips on reloading, they have good stories about each caliber and it's useful to have a couple to compare safe loads for each round. I've heard the lee "ABC's of reloading is useful but I've never read it"
What area of southern Ontario are you in?
 
The absolute best way to start out, is to have an experienced loader come to your home, and help you set up your dies and equipment, and show you how to prep your brass and load ammunition with your equipment. I have done this with several people, and they found it much more helpful than trying to learn online, or from a book.
 
Read the lyman reloading manual twice as well as the instructions that came with your dies and you are gtg. Its not that hard.
 
stubblejumper said:
The absolute best way to start out, is to have an experienced loader come to your home, and help you set up your dies and equipment, and show you how to prep your brass and load ammunition with your equipment. I have done this with several people, and they found it much more helpful than trying to learn online, or from a book.
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That would definitely be a great way to learn. I wish I could have done that when I first started reloading. The YouTube video's are really helpful, but nothing is better than an experienced person showing you the ropes. Maybe would have prevented me from squashing and setting off that primer one time lol :)
 
My biggest issue is tolerance variances, eg trim length and coal, is there an acceptable range? I test all my brass to ensure they will chamber, but some of my brass is shorter than trim length.
 
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And yet , I have seen many people having issues, because they did not know how to adjust the seating die correctly.
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Some people don't know how to do reading comprehension properly. I started off with pistol which is pretty easy once you get the hang of it but I can certainly see it being intimidating for rifle, and even pistol to some extent. I think most people are worried they are going to make a mistake and blow up their gun(s). But I do agree hands on help is always a great thing if you have access to it, but YouTube, here and books are plenty good to get the hang of things.
 
michaelm said:
My biggest issue is tolerance variances, eg trim length and coal, is there an acceptable range? I test all my brass to ensure they will chamber, but some of my brass is shorter than trim length.
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The first thing that I learned, was that the COL listed in the loading manuals is pretty much meaningless. Determine a COL to start with based on your rifle, and your magazine.
 
don't think there is any course as it's quite simple really. use the resources others mentioned and ask questions here for help. I am pretty sure everyone here is willing to help.

Of course, if you insist to pay up, I don't think people would mind. Lol....

I am in GTA area and only load pistol rounds(9/40/45/357mag/40spl/40mag). If you are close or happen to be in the same club, PM me and we can chat.
 
thechineseguy said:
i learned on my own. there is boatloads of info that can be found online.
if i can do it ANYONE can do it.
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Most people can quickly load safe ammunition, but there is a lot more involved to develop loads that will allow you to use the full potential of the rifle. Many people never get to that point.
 
michaelm said:
My biggest issue is tolerance variances, eg trim length and coal, is there an acceptable range? I test all my brass to ensure they will chamber, but some of my brass is shorter than trim length.
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For cartridge and chamber drawings you can look in one of your reloading manuals or on the SAAMI site (Sporting Arms and Amunition Manufacturers Institute).
Here you can fund drawings for all SAAMI recognized calibers.
If we take the example of .45ACP you will see that the acceptable case length is 0.898-0.010 so minimum trim length should be 0.888"
http://www.saami.org/PubResources/CC_Drawings/Pistol/45%20Automatic.pdf
It is important to note that on straight walled cases the brass will typically shrink while on bottleneck cases it will stretch.
I never measure the length of straight walled cases I simply load them till I lose them.
Another thing to note is that some Hornady factory loaded brass are shorter than minimum length for some unknown reason and since they were safe to fire from the factory it is safe to say they are still safe to reload.
 
to put it simply, if you can follow a recipe , you can reload- simple as that- deprime, resize, prime, powder , bullet seat- it's a freaking cake- measure 2x, cut once- repeat with NO variations
HOW THICK CAN YOU BE?
I've been doing this since 71 and aside from checking case length,i got ONE all purpose load and have never had cause to deviate- 308 Winchester, 44 grains of ww748 large rifle primer, 180 grain bullet- i'm still here , and got all my toes and fingers-
 
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