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Starting reloading!!
- Thread starter MilitaryCollectorMark
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- SE corner Sk
No, Bought a used set a couple months ago. Still need to find for 22 hornet, 300 win mag and 270.
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- SE corner Sk
What would be a good scale to get? From looking on icollector there are RCBS then ohaus then hornady ones coming up. What would be the ones to on the lookout for?
sharp shooter
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- Essex county (Ontario)
I have a 10-10 and find it to work really nice but they can be hard to come by. The Forster is highly regarded by some but are hard to find in Canada. I've used a Lyman 5, Hornady, RCBS 505, RCBS 5-10 and 10-10.
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- SE corner Sk
Found a 10-10. What would it be worth?
$120.00 cdn. Dave.
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- SE corner Sk
Ok!
$100+ I'd say.
(I have a near new 505 that i can let go for 70 plus shipping if you want)
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- SE corner Sk
Thanks for the offer! I'm going to see if I can get the 10-10 1st otherwise I could buy yours?
Mark
OP - I hope you realize that buying all the required reloading accessories piecemeal is going to consume a lot more time (posts on CGN) and money (think shipping) than buying a kit. Heck - these kits often pop up on the EE regularly. Look at the Lee kit if you want something student budget friendly, otherwise Hornady or RCBS.
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- SE corner Sk
I bought a basic RCBS kit. Just need a scale, trickler, primer, and trimer. There is a sale coming up on Icollector that has all the things I need. Ends next week so I should be able to get the stuff in a little over 3? weeks.
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- SE corner Sk
Yeah, spend once cry once. Best to buy higher quality equipment that your going to be using all the time. Or buy used high quality then you can save a bit.
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- Western Manitoba
Was my experience as well! I started with the RCBS one - thought that was "normal" - gave it away with other "old school" powder handling stuff, when I got an early Lyman dispenser and scale in one unit. Have since got a Hornady beam scale and Hornady trickler - ended up mounting that trickler on a hockey puck for more base weight and height (rural Canadian - eh!!), and then ran a tap - maybe 1/4" or 5/16" NC (?) to create threads on inside of the pipe, like I recall that the RCBS one had. It now lets me dribble out one kernel at a time, like that old RCBS one would.
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- SE corner Sk
What types of primers would be good to buy?
I know there are winchester large rifle, need those for my 25-06, any others I should buy?
I know there are winchester large rifle, need those for my 25-06, any others I should buy?
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- Western Manitoba
Primers usually go by size - say large rifle or small rifle. Then also by "power" - so there are also large rifle magnum and small rifle magnum. Usually magnums listed for ball powders, or for cold weather, or for larger capacity cases. I am not familiar with primers for handguns - may or may not be similar. One brand to another might have differing sensitivity to firing pin strike - so Federal 210 typically mentioned as "going off" easily, whereas the CCI No. 34 likely needs or wants a firmer strike to fire. Was some history with Winchester primers cracking or puncturing their primer cups upon firing - many rifles had bolt faces ruined by those - not sure if that was resolved, or when, or if the problem batches were actually identified or not. So far as I know, various brands of same size could be used with appropriate work-up - so RWS, CCI, Remington, Winchester, Federal are some of the brands that I know of that all make "large rifle" or "large rifle magnum" primers - and they may or may not be interchangeable in your loadings. One or another might perform "better" - is sort of up to you whether your shooting ability can demonstrate that or not.
I had forgot - is also "Match" versions of those primers - I find them a bit of mystery - had read they are made from "normal" components, but by more experienced machine operators. I do not know, for sure, what makes a "Match" primer different from the same makers regular primer (besides the cost to buy, usually).
Maybe to help you - you do not "need" Winchester Large Rifle primers for your 25-06 - if it was here and I was loading up for it, it would be getting Fed 210 or Fed 215, or CCI BR-2 - because I have those. But, unless you know better, is usually not a good idea to "work up" a loading with WLR and then simply swap next time to Fed 210. I would say certainly NOT recommended to swap to a WLRM or Fed 215 without re-working up that loading, although the magnum primers might actually turn out to have been a better choice for you.
I had forgot - is also "Match" versions of those primers - I find them a bit of mystery - had read they are made from "normal" components, but by more experienced machine operators. I do not know, for sure, what makes a "Match" primer different from the same makers regular primer (besides the cost to buy, usually).
Maybe to help you - you do not "need" Winchester Large Rifle primers for your 25-06 - if it was here and I was loading up for it, it would be getting Fed 210 or Fed 215, or CCI BR-2 - because I have those. But, unless you know better, is usually not a good idea to "work up" a loading with WLR and then simply swap next time to Fed 210. I would say certainly NOT recommended to swap to a WLRM or Fed 215 without re-working up that loading, although the magnum primers might actually turn out to have been a better choice for you.
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I use CCI large rifle , large rifle magnum, and large rifle benchrest . Depending on the rifle, the 308 precision rifle the BR, the 338WM the LRM. and the 30.06 hunting the LR. Forgot their numbers. Winchester primers were much cheaper so I used them in practice BANG. All various large rifle primers. The theory is you want the softest primer that gives you reliable ignition for accuracy. Primers, even lot numbers of primers have an effect on accuracy.
Doesnt the RCBS kit include an electronic scale, primer and trickler? Am I missing something? Regarding primers, getting your mitts on any large rifle primers will be an accomplishment. You should hit up Potashminer with beverages for a few hundred.
