Do you remember your first?
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std7mag
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Oh yeah!
I was reloading 7mm Rem Mag with the Lee Wack A Mole style reloader at the dining room table.
My girl friend (wife now) put a quick end to that! Lol
I was reloading 7mm Rem Mag with the Lee Wack A Mole style reloader at the dining room table.
My girl friend (wife now) put a quick end to that! Lol
elkantlers
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Yep, Christmas day when I was 18. I received a RCBS Rock chucker kit and some components. I read the steps in the reloading manual several times and then proceeded to load 1 round 22-250. I drove outside of town and shot that one bullet. When it shot normally, I was relieved and pretty proud. I've been reloading ever since. And, I still have and use that RC press.
blackbeard
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My uncle taught me when I was 13. 270 wsm. Still got the gun and some of the brass. Parents got me a Lee kit that was super cheap and made thousands of rounds. It's all been majorly upgraded over the 25 years.
GoGriz
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Bought a s&w .500 revolver in college because I thought it was cool. Quickly learned college kids can’t afford ammo for that gun with other important things to spend money on. Bought a rock chucker kit and proceeded to load hundreds of rounds for that gun. Now I reload for maybe 10 different calibers and I still love doing it 23 years later.
44hunter45
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Like yesterday. 40 years ago. Young and dumb about it. Damn the pressure signs, full speed ahead!
I've matured and so have my handloads.
I've matured and so have my handloads.
RealMuddyboots
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I think many of us can say this quite easily but prob better said "and still have my hands and loads".
Very nice. Haven’t gotten into making rounds myself bout would like to eventually.
Deez Nutz
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Loaded 592 rounds of 270 win in the last few days. Should get me through antelope opener..
Wyoming270
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That would last me a lifetime in a hunting rifle.
Im working on building the brass pile to start loading 270. Got a lot of 300 win mag ive loaded.
Deez Nutz
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Should last a good while but this rifle is used a lot by myself and my family and also as a loaner to people I take out. I believe the last time I loaded for this rifle was in 20 or 21 and I loaded like 400ish rounds.
The rounds in the picture are .270 WSM. I have a love hate relationship with the rifle but am hanging on to it. Was fortunate to score a couple hundred Norma casing to load for it
My BIL always says “You can’t kill em if you ain’t shootin”.
Caseknife
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No, it was too long ago. Can't remember if it was 38 Special/357 Mag or 7mm Rem mag, well over 40 years ago. Beware, it is addicting.
Mallardsx2
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Ya. I won’t forget it.
My dad let me try my hand at reloading 22-250 shells when I was about 8 years old with a Classic Lee Loader kit.
I accidentally flipped a primer and when I hit it with the hammer to seat it, it went off, with my entire family sitting 10 feet away.
I wonder how often things like that happen to kids in today’s world….Lol
My dad let me try my hand at reloading 22-250 shells when I was about 8 years old with a Classic Lee Loader kit.
I accidentally flipped a primer and when I hit it with the hammer to seat it, it went off, with my entire family sitting 10 feet away.
I wonder how often things like that happen to kids in today’s world….Lol
.223 Rem with a 60gr Nosler Partition with H335 using the Lee loader. Made a pile of dummy rounds before I trusted the process enough. Shot five rounds and they all went off and grouped well. Fell in love right then. Loaded these as a freshman in college, 17 years ago. I only had a .223 and was invited to hunt some family land in a rifle zone, after screwing around in a slug zone for the first 6 years of my deer hunting.
Literally the next thing I bought for reloading was a box of reloading goodies from an older acquaintance for $50. In that box was Forster Co-Ax, three sets of dies, and other odds and ends.
Sold the Lee loader to my buddy at the time who’s girlfriend cussed me out for the noise but then redeemed herself when she asked what he needed for this new hobby that wouldn’t be so loud at their kitchen table in their apartment.
I’ve used that old Co-Ax to reload thousands of .357 mag, hundreds of .44mag and thousands of rifle rounds. I won’t ever let it go. Just recently upgraded to a Dillon 550 for revolver rounds.
Literally the next thing I bought for reloading was a box of reloading goodies from an older acquaintance for $50. In that box was Forster Co-Ax, three sets of dies, and other odds and ends.
Sold the Lee loader to my buddy at the time who’s girlfriend cussed me out for the noise but then redeemed herself when she asked what he needed for this new hobby that wouldn’t be so loud at their kitchen table in their apartment.
I’ve used that old Co-Ax to reload thousands of .357 mag, hundreds of .44mag and thousands of rifle rounds. I won’t ever let it go. Just recently upgraded to a Dillon 550 for revolver rounds.
buffybr
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I bought my first centerfire rifle in 1967. The rifle was a Herter's Model U-9 .30-06 barreled action and a semi-inleted walnut stock from Herter's. I also bought most of my reloading equipment from Herter's. I worked that summer and fall for the US Forset Service in Steamboat Spgs, Colorado, and that winter I managed the Howelsen Hill ski and jumping hill in town there. I shaped and finished the stock that summer, and one of my friends there, who also worked for me at the ski hill, was a reloader, and he got me started reloading.
After I got out of the US Army in 1970, I bought 2 centerfire pistols and a Miroku 12 ga shotgun, bought a Honey Bair single stage shotshell reloader, and immediately started reloading for them. I went back to college in 1971 and my last year there I lived in a small 2 bedroom trailer. I converted the center bedroom to a study room with a stout 2x4 table the length of one wall. One half of the table was my study desk, and the other half was my reloading bench.
Early on I kept logs of all of my rifle, pistol, and shotshell reloading. For the first couple of years of my shotshell reloading, I logged every box that I reloaded, inclding my Trap scores of every line of trap that I shot.
Somewhere along the line, I upgraded my Herter's reloading press to a RCBS Rockchucker and later added a Dillon 450 for my pistol reloads. In the early '80s my shotgun shooting progressed from just occasional shooting to Trap Leagues and ATA competitions, so I added a Pacific 366 progressive 12 ga shotshell reloader to my reloading bench. Then in the mid '80s I got interested in Skeet shooting so I added three more Pacific/Hornady 366 reloaders in 20 and 28 ga and .410 to my bench.
For the 15 or so years that I was competing in Trap and Skeet I was shooting at least 10,000 shotshells each year. I quit comteting in 2000, but I still reload and shoot 4-5,000 shotshells every year. I don't remember when I started it or what I'll do with them, but right now I have 8 one gallon milk jugs full of used shotshell, rifle, and pistol primers.
Over the years I've also added over a dozen additional rifle and pistol cartridges that I reload.
For the past 45+ years, I've gone to our range almost every Wednesday throughout the years. Currently my range days start with shooting 2 or 3 pistols at 25 yds, 2 or 3 rifles at 200, 300, and 400 yds, and 3 or 4 lines of Skeet.
After I got out of the US Army in 1970, I bought 2 centerfire pistols and a Miroku 12 ga shotgun, bought a Honey Bair single stage shotshell reloader, and immediately started reloading for them. I went back to college in 1971 and my last year there I lived in a small 2 bedroom trailer. I converted the center bedroom to a study room with a stout 2x4 table the length of one wall. One half of the table was my study desk, and the other half was my reloading bench.
Early on I kept logs of all of my rifle, pistol, and shotshell reloading. For the first couple of years of my shotshell reloading, I logged every box that I reloaded, inclding my Trap scores of every line of trap that I shot.
Somewhere along the line, I upgraded my Herter's reloading press to a RCBS Rockchucker and later added a Dillon 450 for my pistol reloads. In the early '80s my shotgun shooting progressed from just occasional shooting to Trap Leagues and ATA competitions, so I added a Pacific 366 progressive 12 ga shotshell reloader to my reloading bench. Then in the mid '80s I got interested in Skeet shooting so I added three more Pacific/Hornady 366 reloaders in 20 and 28 ga and .410 to my bench.
For the 15 or so years that I was competing in Trap and Skeet I was shooting at least 10,000 shotshells each year. I quit comteting in 2000, but I still reload and shoot 4-5,000 shotshells every year. I don't remember when I started it or what I'll do with them, but right now I have 8 one gallon milk jugs full of used shotshell, rifle, and pistol primers.
Over the years I've also added over a dozen additional rifle and pistol cartridges that I reload.
For the past 45+ years, I've gone to our range almost every Wednesday throughout the years. Currently my range days start with shooting 2 or 3 pistols at 25 yds, 2 or 3 rifles at 200, 300, and 400 yds, and 3 or 4 lines of Skeet.
El Jason
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Yep. I bought a Rockchucker kit from Bob Wards in Bozeman. I loaded up some Speer Grand Slams in my .300 Win Mag. I didn’t have a chronograph, but I remember showing some cases to a friend where I had sticky bolt lift. He said “those primers are definitely saying ouch!”
I wasted a lot of components on three round groups chasing the “node”.
I wasted a lot of components on three round groups chasing the “node”.
