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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 1295824" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>As a kid in the late 60's I had a Winchester Model 670 30-06 with Weaver K4. Loved to shoot, but couldn't afford the amount of factory ammo to feed my habit. I'm not even sure if it's still available, but I bought a Leeloader kit(red box) for about $5. It was a crude affair requiring a plastic mallet to drive the cases in and out of a dye, and seat the primers and bullets. A scoop was supplied that happened to work well with IMR3031, CCI primers, and a box of Speer 165gr spitzer soft points(based on Jack O' Connors writings). After a bit of practice, what became obvious was that while the cost was less then half, my group size shrank to the size of a quarter at 100 yards. This was a big deal as most all the factory ammo I had shot produced groups at least twice the size. I was hooked, but found the key to success was the consistency of the components and each step of that crude reloading process. Today, over 40 years and thousands of dollars in reloading equipment and measurement tools later, nothing has changed. IMO, the key to reloading excellence is consistency.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, I thought about that Lee loader this morning because I used the same plastic mallet to remove a detached de-priming pin from a case! I still have my old Lee Loader kits in 30-06 and 38spcl.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 1295824, member: 10291"] As a kid in the late 60's I had a Winchester Model 670 30-06 with Weaver K4. Loved to shoot, but couldn't afford the amount of factory ammo to feed my habit. I'm not even sure if it's still available, but I bought a Leeloader kit(red box) for about $5. It was a crude affair requiring a plastic mallet to drive the cases in and out of a dye, and seat the primers and bullets. A scoop was supplied that happened to work well with IMR3031, CCI primers, and a box of Speer 165gr spitzer soft points(based on Jack O' Connors writings). After a bit of practice, what became obvious was that while the cost was less then half, my group size shrank to the size of a quarter at 100 yards. This was a big deal as most all the factory ammo I had shot produced groups at least twice the size. I was hooked, but found the key to success was the consistency of the components and each step of that crude reloading process. Today, over 40 years and thousands of dollars in reloading equipment and measurement tools later, nothing has changed. IMO, the key to reloading excellence is consistency. As an aside, I thought about that Lee loader this morning because I used the same plastic mallet to remove a detached de-priming pin from a case! I still have my old Lee Loader kits in 30-06 and 38spcl. [/QUOTE]
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