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What Techniques Have You Picked Up Reloading That You Wished You Knew From The Start?
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<blockquote data-quote="Patriot007" data-source="post: 1870113" data-attributes="member: 111276"><p>As a student of reloading I will say this. You get what you pay for. As one3 said, you can buy GOOD equipment used, cheap. I did it the hard way, I bought cheap and then after 2 years I had to upgrade my equipment. AND I AM NOT RICH. So my advice if you are on a budget, look for the best deal on used Forster, Redding, or Dillon presses. I say go with the Forster co ax press for anything you want to load and pair it with Forester dies and a must have die is the lee collect die for what ever caliber rifle bullet you are using as long as it is a bolt gun and not an AR-style rifle. You can even load pistol bullets on it. For my Pistol bullets, I crank them out on a Lee Load Master progressive press. (45acp, 9mm.) Yep, I know there is some Lee LM haters out there, but mine works great. 99% of the time if there is anything wrong with the LM, It's the operator. Good ammo can be made on cheap presses but you will run into Consistency and repeat ability issues with each bullet. <Time spent trying to figure out why this case is seated at 2256 and this case seated at 2260> That's where the waste of time comes into play and a lot of head scratching going on. To some this would not be any thing to worry about or think twice about. Me, I'm OCD. if It is suppose to be 2256, then everyone of them should be seated at 2256. At the end of my process every loaded bullet is check on my NECO gauge for concentricity and indexed for alignment when loading into the rifle. Did anyone every say anything about jumping down rabbit holes and the money they spent trying to get out of that hole. { oh that's another story for a different time.}</p><p>Look, Buy what you can and just start reloading, if you have any questions just come here and ask, there is a lot of great people here that will glad to give you there nickels worth. And most of all, be safe and have fun and remember to shoot straight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Patriot007, post: 1870113, member: 111276"] As a student of reloading I will say this. You get what you pay for. As one3 said, you can buy GOOD equipment used, cheap. I did it the hard way, I bought cheap and then after 2 years I had to upgrade my equipment. AND I AM NOT RICH. So my advice if you are on a budget, look for the best deal on used Forster, Redding, or Dillon presses. I say go with the Forster co ax press for anything you want to load and pair it with Forester dies and a must have die is the lee collect die for what ever caliber rifle bullet you are using as long as it is a bolt gun and not an AR-style rifle. You can even load pistol bullets on it. For my Pistol bullets, I crank them out on a Lee Load Master progressive press. (45acp, 9mm.) Yep, I know there is some Lee LM haters out there, but mine works great. 99% of the time if there is anything wrong with the LM, It's the operator. Good ammo can be made on cheap presses but you will run into Consistency and repeat ability issues with each bullet. <Time spent trying to figure out why this case is seated at 2256 and this case seated at 2260> That's where the waste of time comes into play and a lot of head scratching going on. To some this would not be any thing to worry about or think twice about. Me, I'm OCD. if It is suppose to be 2256, then everyone of them should be seated at 2256. At the end of my process every loaded bullet is check on my NECO gauge for concentricity and indexed for alignment when loading into the rifle. Did anyone every say anything about jumping down rabbit holes and the money they spent trying to get out of that hole. { oh that's another story for a different time.} Look, Buy what you can and just start reloading, if you have any questions just come here and ask, there is a lot of great people here that will glad to give you there nickels worth. And most of all, be safe and have fun and remember to shoot straight. [/QUOTE]
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