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<blockquote data-quote="hoffbill" data-source="post: 1535360" data-attributes="member: 75091"><p>Blackdirt Cowboy, you have received a lot of advice and opinion on this thread, all good experience for the situation it was experienced in and favoring one brand or another and one technique or another resulting from various applications. Gets confusing quick.</p><p></p><p>I recommend, from my personal experience, buying and reading a couple of good reloading manuals as well as what is available online. Hornady manual is excellent at explaining the basics and safety procedures. Always follow safety practices. Some articles and videos may assume you know basic things you have not learned or practiced yet so beware of that.</p><p></p><p>Start with basic equipment, then add more as you learn what you need and how to use it. For example a person loading ammo for hunting and plinking will never need expensive neck turning and runout measuring tools a precision competition shooter would require.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Start simple with a bolt gun and 1 caliber, learn a sequence for doing you loads and never vary from it. Follow practices like never having anything but the components you are loading on the bench. No multiple powders, bullets or cases at the same time. Practice by loading 5 round lots using the same bullet and powder but adding .5 gr to the charge for each group, then go to the range and shoot group to begin learning about how much difference a small change in charge can make in accuracy. </p><p></p><p>As many posts have mentioned, most of us learn by getting basic stuff, a good manual, and learn as we go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hoffbill, post: 1535360, member: 75091"] Blackdirt Cowboy, you have received a lot of advice and opinion on this thread, all good experience for the situation it was experienced in and favoring one brand or another and one technique or another resulting from various applications. Gets confusing quick. I recommend, from my personal experience, buying and reading a couple of good reloading manuals as well as what is available online. Hornady manual is excellent at explaining the basics and safety procedures. Always follow safety practices. Some articles and videos may assume you know basic things you have not learned or practiced yet so beware of that. Start with basic equipment, then add more as you learn what you need and how to use it. For example a person loading ammo for hunting and plinking will never need expensive neck turning and runout measuring tools a precision competition shooter would require. Start simple with a bolt gun and 1 caliber, learn a sequence for doing you loads and never vary from it. Follow practices like never having anything but the components you are loading on the bench. No multiple powders, bullets or cases at the same time. Practice by loading 5 round lots using the same bullet and powder but adding .5 gr to the charge for each group, then go to the range and shoot group to begin learning about how much difference a small change in charge can make in accuracy. As many posts have mentioned, most of us learn by getting basic stuff, a good manual, and learn as we go. [/QUOTE]
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