Calvin45
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That's my next loading adventure. I've never got into shotshell loading but wanna give it shot.
Handloading - How Many and How Long?
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Critter Picker
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Pun intended?
Calvin45
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Oh yes. I'm a young (well I like to think it's young, 31) father of four children and this hobby lends itself to the most delightful puns. I will do what i must do!
"Give it a shot" and try something new.
"Bite the bullet" and pay for the things i actually want
"Pull the trigger" and decide to dive headlong into another experimental rabbit hole…
mongo4567
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Started in 2020. 223, 357mag, 6.5 swede, 6.5 cm, 264 win mag, 7mag, 280, 9mm, 300blk, and 308 so far. I have a bunch of dies and new ones on the short list based on dwindling ammo supplies: 25-06, 260, 30-30, 45acp. I'm also going to try my hand at a progressive reloader.
LRNut
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I started reloading in 1975 when I was 16 - 12 ga using a Lee LoadAll. Moved up to 7mmRM. Now load for .204 Ruger, .222, .223, .220 Swift, .243 Win, 6mm Hagar, 28 Nosler, .308 Win, .30-06, 300 SAUM, 300 RUM, .338 WM, .338 Lapua, .338 Edge, .375 H&H, .416 RM, .45-70, .357 Mag/.38 Spec, .44 RM/.44 Spec, .45 auto, and 454 Casull.
I no longer reload shotgun; I used to do so to save money, but I don't see where you save money anymore, and my time is more valuable than it once was.
I no longer reload shotgun; I used to do so to save money, but I don't see where you save money anymore, and my time is more valuable than it once was.
memtb
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I answered 16-20 on your poll. Though, I do not actively load for all of these presently…..I do have the capability!
I guess that the "survivalist" in me requires that I have the ability to reload for cartridges that I don't actually use in a worst case scenario! I even have bullet molds to cast for everything I have, with the exception of the 0.224's!
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quigley257
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LOL...
I know, I know... I'm a "conspiracy theorist". With all the new talk about regulating and tracking smokeless powder stored in homes, I'm certainly not going to make it easier for them to "find a reason" to come looking. I'm also the kind of guy that photoshops out the serial numbers in all my gun pictures just because it's nobodies business but my own.
mongo4567
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With years of collectors licenses in the past and stacks of 4473s and form 4s I imagine the helicopters are already circling my house; they'll have no trouble finding it.
Started Handloading in the Early 80's with a Redding Press for a 308, progressed up the ladder to larger cartridges and different presses and in the early 90's started loading shotgun shells as well. I Currently load for 416 Rigby, 300PRC, 300 Win Mag, 7LRM, 280AI, 6.5PRC, 6.5 x 284, 6mm Rem, 257 Bee, 243 WSSM, 22-250, 223, 17 Hornet and 12GA. Shotgun.
I started loading in 1985 loading 270 Winchester and 44 magnum with an old Pacific Press and RCBS dies.
Cartridges I load for today.
308
30-06
270 win
6.5-06 A Square
6.5 Grendel
223/5.56
45 acp
45 long colt
The only factory ammunition I use is cheap 7.62 x 39 for the AK.
I run 6 progressive shot shell loaders in 410, 20, and 12. I have a few single stage shotshell presses as well.
Cartridges I load for today.
308
30-06
270 win
6.5-06 A Square
6.5 Grendel
223/5.56
45 acp
45 long colt
The only factory ammunition I use is cheap 7.62 x 39 for the AK.
I run 6 progressive shot shell loaders in 410, 20, and 12. I have a few single stage shotshell presses as well.
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J-B welder
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A friend and I loaded shotgun shells on our Lee Load-Alls for a couple years in high school back in the early 80s. Then an almost 40-year gap until 2021 when I started loading for the new .243 I bought. Now I load the following:
.243 Winchester
.30-06 Springfield
.308 Winchester
.35 Remington
.30-40 Krag
.357 Magnum
9 mm Luger
.44 Magnum
Looking to get a .41 Remington Magnun next and load for it, and then probably 7 mm Mauser.
.243 Winchester
.30-06 Springfield
.308 Winchester
.35 Remington
.30-40 Krag
.357 Magnum
9 mm Luger
.44 Magnum
Looking to get a .41 Remington Magnun next and load for it, and then probably 7 mm Mauser.
I started in 1964. Bought a used 270 Winchester Model 70 (1948 vintage). I used my 4-H money to buy the rifle, reloading equipment and supplies to load for the 270. Incidentally the rifle and I are the same age - 75.
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QuietTexan
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I started with 30-06. Then got into AIs, then benchrest chambers, then wildcats, and now I'm 
s as 
. My next adventure is rimfire reloading, that's going to be a trip. Started with 22LR from CE because it was easy to get started, but I want to get 17WSM going soon. Figuring out re-priming might be the chemistry experiment than gets me a visit from the FBI. 
Do you have any other thoughts that you would like to share?
s as . My next adventure is rimfire reloading, that's going to be a trip. Started with 22LR from CE because it was easy to get started, but I want to get 17WSM going soon. Figuring out re-priming might be the chemistry experiment than gets me a visit from the FBI. Do you have any other thoughts that you would like to share?
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