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Found it. It's for a 30-30! As I already had the press, this must have been a gift? But, it has been used. All the tooling have "work" marks and powder scoop is darkened from dipping into powder. Scheese. Totally forgot about that little endeaver. That baby is going on a display shelf. Stoked. Last edited by pennstater; 10-26-2018 at 6:25 AM.. |
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I reloaded a lot of .38 Special and 45ACP when I was shooting my Dad’s handguns before I was 21, my first handgun purchase was a blued Ruger Redhawk with rings, .44 Mag. was the first handgun cartridge I reloaded for my own gun, mostly 240gr. lead flat nose pills but I also loved the 200gr. Sierra JHP and loaded them hot and fast.
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Lee Loader kit . That's what I started with . Now I have for 21 calibers . My 25 ACP was loaned out and never came back . I am using a Lee loadmaster , " O " , " C " and hand press . With nephews and nieces , sometimes everything is in use . Next month going to Reno for wife's Birthday and will probably pick up more primers and powder .
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Started reloading 6.5 x 257 when 9 , old tong tool. Moved up to 45lc , cost and wanted more umph , now reload for anything and everything I own from 22lr to 45/70. Had to move to a bigger place just to keep all my stuff
And then the casting started ……….
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12 gauge, because I was shooting a lot of trap at the time, and was burning through shells at a furious pace. I was using a Pacific DL-105 at the time, and if I didn't hit any problems I could reload 1 box every 20 minutes or so. Reliable press, but slow.
Glommed onto a MEC 650 progressive, and things were much better. Good thing too, because I dropped trap in favor of skeet...... WAY more fun, which resulted in much higher consumption. Don't shoot a ton of shotgun any more, but still use that MEC for reloading. Comes in handy for dove season. Discovered IPSC around 1994 or so, and bought a complete Lee 1000 setup in .45acp from Midway for something like $104. Literally ten's of thousands of rounds through that press, and still going strong. Still bolted to my bench, and still dropping mas quantities of ammo. I have gotten a ton of "bang for the buck" out of that $104 investment over the years, and I am still loading with it. Fantastic value.
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Geez, started probably 25-30 years ago with 38 special for my Taurus revolver. Started with a Lee Anniversary kit that carried me through many years. Lee dies and some 158 gr SWC's I purchased.
Funny thing is that I still have the some powder left in that 1lb jug of Clays that was sold to me with the kit! Shortly after I started loading I got an 8lb jug of AA#5 so I'm still trying to use up that Clays! |
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9mm here. Poor college student. Started with a Lyman 310 tong tool. Sizing 9mm was OK but when I started .357 it was a bear. Graduated to a Rock Crusher, thought I was in hog heaven. Fast forward 30 years, still have the Lyman, the Rock Crusher and a Dillon 550. Oh, and 10 more calibers.
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In 1972 I was 17 yrs old. My Mom sent my older brother with me to buy my OM Ruger Blackhawk ($109) in 45lc. I bought the gun and everything (RCBS) I needed to reload for it. I still have everything and now a whole lot more.
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Built a precision 300 win mag Rem 700 in 2013. Quickly was not satisfied with factory offerings. Wanted to shoot 190-200gr pills.......
.........Amazing how 100 rounds eats up a pound of powder.
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.45 acp because my 1911 was hungry.
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45acp about 1985.
A friend had a Rock Chucker and accessories but had not set it up. Helped him set it up; he started some 9mm and I got a set of 45acp dies. Got him one of those 80's progressive "upgrades" even.... I got my own stuff a year or so later. I liked it because it was fun to work up the loads. Same reason I like cooking; fun to play with different recipes, and make own recipes. |
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My first was a .44-40. It was 1963 and I was 14 years old. My neighbor across the street was a biker who owned a restored Model 92 and was into reloading. He was also the one who taught me how to shoot after I got my first .22 rifle at 13.
Twelve years later I split the cost of an RCBS RockChucker with a pal and we loaded .38 Special, .308, and .30-30. He later got divorced, I bought him out, and I've been using the same press ever since. Now loading: .45-70, .45 ACP, .45 LC, .41 Magnum, .308, .270, and .223.
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30-06 was my first, followed by 9mm, .44 Mag, and finally .50 DTC.
I loved my M1903, and thought it would be cool if I could get some half inch groups with such an old rife. Loved the art involved in taking a crappy old tarnished piece of brass, making it look brand new, and getting good groups with it for the same price as steel cased WOLF ammo was a big plus. I'd been collecting brass for a while by this time, and finally decided to go for it. |
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I started reloading after picking up a Ruger Vaquero in 45LC. The ammo was just too expensive and had limited availability. At the time, I had other guns and shot often but I was okay with buying ammo OTC.
I had several brothers and family members who already loaded that I used for guidance. Started on a Rock Chucker to learn and then moved up to an XL650. I was content with the Rock Chucker for the 45LC but it didn't cut it for 45ACP. I now reload for pretty much everything I shoot but it was the 45LC that got me started. I'm sure it would have happened eventually but this was the catalyst.
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1St round, as a kid, at my neighbor's on my block. My parents went hunting elks with them.
It was lead, wax lubed,and I want to say it was a .357 magnum. 30 or so years later, it was 9mm Luger and .223. Why? Because I saw all the violence Democrats cause, and knew I might need more than I could buy retail... |
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.40 S&W for me in 2012. It was my only pistol at the time, I wanted to go shooting with my brother in law and hadn't bought ammo in a while. When I went to buy it all I found was empty shelves. I bought some factory ammo from a calgunner, sold my dirt bike and bought my Dillon 650. I quickly added a rockchucker and started loading for my .30-30 as well.
Now I still have those presses but added a 1050 and co-ax for my rifle stuff. Haven't ever been into shotgun loads but I have a Mec 9000H hydraulic setup I picked up dirt cheap that I'll get to trying out one of these days.
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For me, it was 10mm.
I had many other pistols and calibers, but the 10 pushed me over the edge. I wanted full house loads but didnt want to pay underwood/buffalo bore prices. Since then, I now load about ten or so different calibers and well over 20k rounds per year |
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In 1997 is started to load for the 45/70 after buying a Marlin 1895SS. Factory ammo was loaded to trap-door pressures and Garrett ammo was too expensive. I wanted a low cost thumper. I bought a Lee Anniversary Kit and never looked back. I now load for 12 calibers.
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44 magnum, to feed the Ruger SBH I bought myself for my 21st Birthday. Used my dads 1962 Speer reloading manual, 23 gr of 2400 with Speer 240gr soft points. Good times. Heck I still load everything on that old Pacific C press. It might be near time to upgrade.
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.38 special. Why; because it seemed like the easiest/safest for a newb using a progressive press. First cartridge came off on 3/14/15 at 4:03PM. I didn't save my first dollar made, but did save my first cartridge made.
Why I got into reloading is because ammo was scarce, what I didn't know 'till after I bought the press and related necessities was that components were also scarce, but I managed to get enough to get started. I now shoot reloads almost exclusively from .25ACP to .338WM. |
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.38 Special. I started competing in PPC and found I needed lots of ammo. Later .45 ACP when started shooting USPSA. Ammo cost was the first reason for reloading but later learned to enjoy just the effort making quality ammunition.
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9mm. Mrs slayer & I shot up all our ammo during a range trip & joked that our pistols would have to be used as clubs at home if we had an invader.
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500sw. why? to feed my 500. no brainer. single stage setup paid for itself immediately. I knew i eventually do other calibers but i didn't shoot much back then so buying factory ammo wasn't too bad. Now i reload everything. haven't bought a factory round other than 22lr in years.
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.38spl in 1974-ish, I had a old S&W Model 14 that I picked up at a garage sale, yeah legal in those days and got a Lee Loader, I hammered maybe 50 rounds with it and decided to sell some stereo speakers to buy a Rock Chucker. Then I got my S&W Model 66 a few years later and loaded .357. Then... well thousands invested in dies, tools, 4 presses, yup, I saved a lot of money reloading, I am sure of it, uh uh sure I am.
I am fully addicted to reloading, my friends joke that I only shoot guns to use up my reloads and I have actually bought some dies of a caliber I didn't own a gun in and was forced to buy a gun because of it. |
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I bought a Dillon 550 press with 9mm and 223 dies.
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38 Special. Straight walled case. Plenty of brass and bullets available. Lee Carbide dies. Easy peezy. I have a 442 for pocket carry and a rifled shotgun adapter for single shots. So it became my new .22 in a sense.
I could practice with the snubby and plink with the adapter for cheap. |
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1965 9mm for my Browning Hi Powder, bought a Lee (use the hammer loader).
Still have one of the first round I ever reloaded.
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30-06 I had just bought a Golden State Arms on a Mauser 98 action from Sears. I wasn't old enough to drive at the time so I went to the LGS on my bicycle to get my press and accessories. C-H C press and dies, Redding scale and powder measure. I just read a Lyman manual and started loading. Sierra 150 grain flat base spitzer, CCI primers and IMR 4320. This was in 1960 or so.
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Ok, I'll chime in. My first gun purchase was a Browning DBA .380. No need to reload for it as it was primarily a defensive gun. Then I purchased a nice S&W 686 (.357/38 cal.). So, I started reloading so I could actually learn how to shoot better.
I purchased an RCBS Rockchucker, scale, powder, and dies. Single stage loading was laborious but fun in my spear time. Now things are much different and I shoot exponentially more in many more calibers. |
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When I was about 16 in the early 70's, joined the Rod and Gun Club and they let me use their MEC stuff to load 12 gauge. I had hunted doves and rabbits before, but a friend in our group had just gotten a very nice and very expensive Winchester Super X autoloader for Christmas, iirc. So 3 of us started hunting skeets and loading and throwing darts and generally lying about at the Rod and Gun.
I started with my own equipment several years later loading .357 Magnum. That ammo was very expensive back then (no mail order) and shooting full power loads wasn't really fun. I bought a Lee Loader as mentioned above, powered by a plastic mallet. Then a year or so later, picked up a Model 29 and another Lee Loader in .44 Magnum. One of the first tools I bought was a powder scale because I didn't trust those plastic scoops. My first actual press was a Lyman Turret press that came in a package with a powder measure, scale, case trimmer, dies, and a bunch of little stuff like funnel, deburring tool, etc. This package normally sold for $150 and I got it on sale for $80. Sold the turret press, still have the Lee Loaders (I think). |
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