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I think I just caught something
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kmw1954
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Maybe you need to pay a visit over to Cast Boolits.com, they can help with the powder coating.
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somethingbenign
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Been meaning to create an account there but haven't gotten around to it. Got the powder coat to work and ended up getting some loaded tonight. Another box of 50, this time 125gr over 5.3gr of power pistol COL at 1.08 which is what I think my last load was at. Will post pictures when I get a target to go with it. Also set aside a handful of bullets to lube with alox which is drying now, I'll probably load up some of those here shortly and see how I like lubing vs coating.
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I've been loading over 40 years with a 20 year stop in the middle to raise kids and get over a golf addiction. Amazing what changed in those 20 years but also what remained the same. I started off with Bullseye and still use it today. Back in the 70's reloading was the only way I could afford to shoot. We cast from wheel weights we got for free and if I could afford 1k primers at a time, it was probably only because I got a tax refund. We cleaned brass in an old cement mixer with soapy water. The only hi tech gadget I had was a carbide sizing die. I bought my first reloading set up for $80. It included a Lyman Turret press, Powder Measure. Scale, Bullet Molds, Sizer/Lubricator, about 200lbs of wheel weights, 500 primers, 1k .38 brass and about 500 bullets the original owner had already cast. I borrowed the money from my parents and paid them back driving a school bus at $15-20 a month. Now, reloading cost me more than shooting factory ammo just because I shoot so much and am forever trying out new load combinations. To me that's 90% of the fun of shooting is trying to wring the last little bit of accuracy out of a gun. It is so anti-climatic when you finally realize that this is as accurate as I can get this gun to shoot. But then its off to the next gun. And if you are buying and trading guns all the time, its a never ending process. Then as one poster said above, you start hunting with your reloads and harvest a deer or a hog! Then you really get into a zone. Its an incurable disease. But to this day it never ceases to amaze me what little things that you control can make such a huge difference In the accuracy of a particular gun.
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So got some new dies, a set of Lee 32 H&R plus their factory crimp dies. Going to run with the titegroup I already have but would like to add another powder, any suggestions? I'm seeing data using small pistol, small pistol magnum, and even small rifle primers for the 327 but I'm sticking with data using the SPP, anyone use small rifle for these? Any bullet moulds you would suggest? I need something to do while the dies are drying after their mineral spirits bath and browsing more things I can spend money on seems like a good distraction.
FLIGHT762
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Congrats, happened to me in 1967.
GBExpat
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<chuckle> I can still remember squeezing off that first 7,92x57 round in my K98k BringBack a little over 50 years ago (actually, it occurred about 500yds to the East, in front of the old 18th century farmhouse, of where I now sit typing this). The feeling was a-MAZ-ing!
Welcome to the Club!
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That was my first reload too. From a K98k bring back as well. A little over 10 years ago I remember going to pick up a box of 8mm Mauser and thinking "this a rip off", with underloaded rounds to boot. One isle over was a Lee classic kit and all the necessary components. Picked that up, did some reading and have been reloading since.<chuckle> I can still remember squeezing off that first 7,92x57 round in my K98k BringBack a little over 50 years ago (actually, it occurred about 500yds to the East, in front of the old 18th century farmhouse, of where I now sit typing this). The feeling was a-MAZ-ing!
Welcome to the Club!
Anyways,
GBExpat
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Here is a pic of my original 1968 Lee Loader and Lyman FL resizer.
Hammer not Included.
When I tell people that my first reloads utilized a hammer the think I'm crazy.
Well, I am, but that's not why.
rabid wombat
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Yeppers - started with my Brother in the late ‘60’s with a Lee whack a mole....45 ACP. As another said, “you have not lived until you realize that you are seating primers with a hammer....”
Hondo 60
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Congrats on the handloads, and welcome to the adict ... oh, wait, no, welcome to the hobby.
Ya, that's it, "hobby" ...
berettaprofessor
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Well, it's not quite as final as "drinking the koolaid", but it affects your future free time to the same degree.
Well you're hooked and at about the normal rate of acquisition for new die sets. Since you're early, just try HP38/Win231....they're such a staple everyone gets around to trying some eventually. Or go to CFEPistol for a newer introduced powder. I use it in several rounds and find it snappy, but clean.
rfwobbly
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Therein, my friend, lies your first "heads up !" You MUST keep a written log book or notebook on your work. Not a single one of us can remember the loads we did last week, so you cannot leave your personal safety to memory.
I use a simple spiral bound school notebook, one for each gun. In the notebook I set aside a whole page for each discrete bullet. At the top of the page I record all the dimensions of the bullet, and record the OAL I've decided to use. Then below that, all the various powders I've experimented with and the results of those loads.
Thanks for the warm welcome guys, can't decide if it feels more like a small town welcome or a cult recruiting.
Not to worry. You'll be doing a fair amount of recruiting yourself before long !
Sorry to tell you this, but you'll simply need to get used to taking more ammo to the range when you make that monthly visit. I know this will seem very awkward at first, but after 2 or 3 years you'll slowly become accustomed to it, and it will eventually become your new norm.
Very sorry to have to break it to you this way.
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rfwobbly
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Sometimes a tear comes to my eye when I see non-reloaders visit the range with only 50-100 rounds in a Walmart bag. So very touching to see. I've found that the best way to share their agony...
is to take their brass home with me.
is to take their brass home with me.
Toprudder
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Me, too! I offer to sweep up their brass for them as well - you know, just to help them out.Sometimes a tear comes to my eye when I see non-reloaders visit the range with only 50-100 rounds in a Walmart bag. So very touching to see. I've found that the best way to share their agony...
is to take their brass home with me.
Me, too.
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