foghorn918
Consistently Inconsistent
Decided it’s time to try my hand at reloading. Went to Hastings by my house for reloading manuals and there wasn’t one in the place. A gentleman there commented that their gun section is only 1/4th of what it used to be. So I have ordered 3 books on reloading and spent hours and hours reading through all of the posts in the reloading forum trying to glean all knowledge I can. I have watched several videos on Youtube from equipment manufacturers and other folks about setting up the press and the reload process. At least now I understand many of the terms and abbreviations that you guys talk about.
Went to Harbor Freight for the workbench that many of you have and they are out at both metro locations, so I will just make my own.
From forum posts seeing what everyone is using and reading through “which reloader for you†on the BENOS site, I decided to get the Dillon 550. One reason was that since going to matches and meeting many of you I know that I will have local resources of knowledge to beg or bribe from to help me if I run into problems since many of you use this press too.
When the books arrive I will be reading and studying them. I have placed an order for the 550 on benos setup for .40 S&W, dies, scale, and their "as it should be" upgrade. I’ve got calipers, primer tray, and cartridge check gauge on the way too.
Ran out of money for now so I still need to get something for brass cleaning, media, separator, and as was suggested a chronograph. I also plan to get the parts to load 9mm as money permits.
From the reloading threads this is what it sounds like many of you like:
Bullets were Bayou, Xtreme, and Montana Gold
Powder for working in both .40 & 9mm seems to favor WST
Primer Brands favored are CCI and Federal small pistol primers (small rifle primers can work too)
.40 will be run through my new G24 (thanks MakeReadyProShop.com), hoping to be able to get it to Accurate-Iron for some upgrades……..Mike can we talk?
Been checking out the Reloading Bench pics thread too. I'll post pics of me getting to that point as well.
Need to get some brass, are there any sources for already cleaned brass since I’ll have to wait a bit to get something to clean brass with?
Picked up some WST powder today at H&H and while looking at primers I only saw CCI Magnum small pistol primers, are they just for calibers like .357 magnum?
Feel free to comment and suggest insight as I get into this and please tell me if I am off base on anything I took note of in my post readings.
I know it’s probably a bad time to be looking for reloading components, but I have to strike while the wife is onboard with me spending the money on the equipment.
thanks
Went to Harbor Freight for the workbench that many of you have and they are out at both metro locations, so I will just make my own.
From forum posts seeing what everyone is using and reading through “which reloader for you†on the BENOS site, I decided to get the Dillon 550. One reason was that since going to matches and meeting many of you I know that I will have local resources of knowledge to beg or bribe from to help me if I run into problems since many of you use this press too.
When the books arrive I will be reading and studying them. I have placed an order for the 550 on benos setup for .40 S&W, dies, scale, and their "as it should be" upgrade. I’ve got calipers, primer tray, and cartridge check gauge on the way too.
Ran out of money for now so I still need to get something for brass cleaning, media, separator, and as was suggested a chronograph. I also plan to get the parts to load 9mm as money permits.
From the reloading threads this is what it sounds like many of you like:
Bullets were Bayou, Xtreme, and Montana Gold
Powder for working in both .40 & 9mm seems to favor WST
Primer Brands favored are CCI and Federal small pistol primers (small rifle primers can work too)
.40 will be run through my new G24 (thanks MakeReadyProShop.com), hoping to be able to get it to Accurate-Iron for some upgrades……..Mike can we talk?
Been checking out the Reloading Bench pics thread too. I'll post pics of me getting to that point as well.
Need to get some brass, are there any sources for already cleaned brass since I’ll have to wait a bit to get something to clean brass with?
Picked up some WST powder today at H&H and while looking at primers I only saw CCI Magnum small pistol primers, are they just for calibers like .357 magnum?
Feel free to comment and suggest insight as I get into this and please tell me if I am off base on anything I took note of in my post readings.
I know it’s probably a bad time to be looking for reloading components, but I have to strike while the wife is onboard with me spending the money on the equipment.
thanks