tsanford405
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Well, this last weekend I loaded up my first rifle rounds. I used a Lee Loader Classic set, which my dad got me into. He had some old ones for the calibers that he used to use, I thought they were interesting and a good buy, so I grabbed one up for my 7mm Rem Mag. He let me use his Ohaus 505 scale, which seemed to be very accurate.
I purchased my reloading stuff from Cabela's, but they didn't have the powder or the primers that I wanted. So I ended up with CCI 250 Large Rifle Magnum Primers (wanted the Federal 215's), H4831 (I wanted Reloder 22, and ment to buy IMR4831, but this has some good "beginner" loads too), and some 160 gr. Nosler Partition's. I found on data.hodgdon.com that the max load for this set of items was 60.0 grains with a COL of 3.29". So I loaded up 25 rounds, 10 at 58.0, 10 at 59.0, and 5 at 60.0. I will load up some more when I get the time so that I can test the groupings with these loads.
I was surprised at how simple the whole process was. It was a lot of fun. The longest part was setting up the bullet seat depth, after that it stayed almost perfect, even though you "hammer" it down in the case. My mom recently had surgery and she was recovering on the couch in the other room, and I set off one primer... I got a laugh, she got scared half to death. Whoops Guess I will do the next reloading at my apartment, and not on the dining room table at the parent's house. I figured my dad would want to be there though for my first time (loading my own cartridges).
I will hopefully get a chance to let off a few rounds this weekend if the weather is nice. I will update the post on what happens. I also found some Reloder 22 last night at my gun range for $4.00 cheaper than Cabela's would have been, yes! I am going to work up some loads with that, and let you all know. I am happy to join a hopefully strong fraternity of self-loading gun "enthusiasts."
I purchased my reloading stuff from Cabela's, but they didn't have the powder or the primers that I wanted. So I ended up with CCI 250 Large Rifle Magnum Primers (wanted the Federal 215's), H4831 (I wanted Reloder 22, and ment to buy IMR4831, but this has some good "beginner" loads too), and some 160 gr. Nosler Partition's. I found on data.hodgdon.com that the max load for this set of items was 60.0 grains with a COL of 3.29". So I loaded up 25 rounds, 10 at 58.0, 10 at 59.0, and 5 at 60.0. I will load up some more when I get the time so that I can test the groupings with these loads.
I was surprised at how simple the whole process was. It was a lot of fun. The longest part was setting up the bullet seat depth, after that it stayed almost perfect, even though you "hammer" it down in the case. My mom recently had surgery and she was recovering on the couch in the other room, and I set off one primer... I got a laugh, she got scared half to death. Whoops Guess I will do the next reloading at my apartment, and not on the dining room table at the parent's house. I figured my dad would want to be there though for my first time (loading my own cartridges).
I will hopefully get a chance to let off a few rounds this weekend if the weather is nice. I will update the post on what happens. I also found some Reloder 22 last night at my gun range for $4.00 cheaper than Cabela's would have been, yes! I am going to work up some loads with that, and let you all know. I am happy to join a hopefully strong fraternity of self-loading gun "enthusiasts."