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The hand press is usable for your chosen cartridges but a press mounted on something stable (rather than just hand-held) is SOoo much easier to use and not that much more space required to store. So you can better evaluate my words, here is a summary of my experience. I load for handguns (44...

I note that a mistake in loading is not likely to present itself to you until you actually fire the defective round. An overcharged cartridge may damage the gun, operator and bystanders, obviously. An uncharged or undercharged cartridge may not make itself known until you fire the following...

10 Advices for the novice loader I put together an arbitrary list that I think is illuminating. I call it my Ten Advices. I have thought of a few things I think are useful for handloaders to know or to consider which seem to be almost universally mentioned, so I put together this list of 10...

I started reloading when I bought my first gun. I knew I could not afford to shoot if I had to buy factory loaded ammunition. I bought a setup from a store and the fellow who owned the store took me in the back and gave me 6 rounds of 357 magnum (in components) He loaded three, narrating all...

Does anyone have experience with the training DVDs from "Concealed Carry University" by Patrick Kilchermann? A set of DVDs supposedly to educate the viewer (from novice to accomplished) in the why and wherefors of concealed carry, preparation, mindset, equipment choice, conduct before, during...

I beg to differ. Inuits and other circumpolar indigenous people often take Polar Bears with 5.56/.223. You just have to pick your shots carefully. Even Brownies have been taken with .223/5.56. I have heard (unverified) of 22 Magnum rimfire successfully taking subsistence game.

Can you remove a bottle cap with the lanyard ring?

How I prevent lead poisoning my chronograph: My chronograph wears armor. Two pieces of channel iron heavy enough to withstand a glancing impact from a 500 S&W without any discernable damage (other than a slight skid mark from the jacket). The two pieces cost almost as much as the chronograph...

The gun will tell you what is right. PapaG,KingMt, ArchAngelCD, Dog Soldier. have good comments. Approach incrementally. Bart B. has some good thoughts, too. The gist is (and what I think they are saying) is that max loads are tuned to the particular firearm in which it was developed...

Budget Beginning Bench You Will Never Outgrow for the Novice Handloader I noticed a couple of threads started recently from a couple of members and I thought reviving this thread would be worthwhile. Originally I posted it on RugerForum.net. You can start with $150 and be minimally equipped...

If you are initeresting in reloading, but lost, don't buy any gear until you are no longer lost. The ABC's of reloading (under $20 from Amazon.com, but likely available for free at your local library) is a good source for relieving confusion. Also, the early chapters of any reloading manual...

Let me share with you some posts and threads I think you find useful. So get a large mug of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, whatever you keep on hand when you read and think and read through these. The "sticky" thread at the top of TheFiringLine's reloading forum is good, entitled, "For the New...

A multi-caliber revolver that goes beyond the Medusa to allow anything from .25 ACP, 327 Federal...up to 44 Magnum and 45 Colt. Taurus makes a convertible 22RF/22 Magnum double action revolver which switches cylinders by pressing a button on the frame where the crane is. Dan Wesson makes...

Maybe Hi-Point should manufacture a revolver? A 9mm or .40 S&W (like the S&W Model 25 / 625) able to chamber and fire both moon-clipped ammunition and single-loaded. Lost Sheep

I have wanted to see Ruger's S-Six (Security Six, Speed Six or Service Six) in .357 Magnum sold as a pair with matching S-Six in 22 rimfire.since 1975.

Bill Ruger said the Sec.Six (also Service-six and speed-six) was a money-losing proposition, but I always thought a higher price point would not have hurt all that much and a companion piece in 10-shot 22 rimfire would have been an ideal two-gun set. Carry the SS for duty and train with the SS...

I always thought a 500 S&W Deringer would be a good bear defense sidearm. 6" Over/under double barrel with a grip substantial enough to hold onto. The gun would be flat enough to holster comfortably and you are unlikely to get more than two aimed shots in a surprise bear attack anyway. Lost...

With video/audio streaming to a recording device. Camera views both infra-red and visible light. Lost Sheep The high-capacity and light weight might be a bit too much to ask, but....

Easy no-tools powder dipper Go to the range and pick up spent brass of different sizes. On the way home stop at a hardware store and pick up some heavy plastic wire ties or safety wire. Form a handle by wrapping a tie or some wire around a cartridge case of the size that will mete the...

Your dippers are exactly what I designed (re-designed) from the Lee Dippers. Cut the perpendicular handle off, attach it vertically. Make a series of sawtooth notches along the length of the shaft so you can shake the powder mound off the top of the cup (this must be done very consistently)...