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What's needed to obtain hunting accuracy in reloading??
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<blockquote data-quote="GregBFL" data-source="post: 1550231" data-attributes="member: 108603"><p>I just read through this thread and now I have the reloading bug going through my mind. Back in the late 70's early 80's I was a young teenager and my father was heavily into rifles and reloading. One evening he came home from work and told me to get ready.... we were going to look at some reloading equipment for sale. We met his shooting buddy and drove over to Orlando and arrived at this gentleman's home and walked around to a small shop behind his house. What I saw when I walked in the door was nothing short of amazing.</p><p></p><p>Long story even longer, the gentleman was going through a divorce and needed money for his attorney's fees. I don't know how much they wrote the check for but I was told it was a steal. That was on a Friday night, the following day we returned with two trucks and loaded the entire contents of the building into the trucks (it took one more truck load to complete the move). Luckily my Father's shooting buddy had a large building on his property, slightly larger than the gentleman's.</p><p></p><p>When we were finished building tables, shelves, etc., we had an array of 6 RCBS Rockchuckers, 3 Dillon progressives, and a shotgun shell loader (Lee, if I remember correctly). There was 100+ dies, case trimmers, tumblers.... everything you could imagine. Evidently the gentleman it was purchased from had contracts with some of the Law Enforcement Agencies in the area and did a LOT of reloading. I remember spending countless hours with my father reloading rounds for our hunting rifles and spending even longer at the range finding out how the latest reloads turned out. My father had stacks and stacks of reloading books - Lyman, Hornady, Hodgdon and so on that he would refer to and show me how to use.</p><p></p><p>Thank you to the OP of this thread and those who contributed. I haven't done much reloading since my father passed away but I think I will start again. I need to catch up on what to purchase and start buying things up a little at a time. It's not that I need to reload to squeeze the last little bit out of a round or save money. Nope, I remembered how much fun it was spending time with my father and I have a daughter that loves to shoot as much as I do. I think it will be a good opportunity to spend time with her and perhaps work up a few good loads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GregBFL, post: 1550231, member: 108603"] I just read through this thread and now I have the reloading bug going through my mind. Back in the late 70's early 80's I was a young teenager and my father was heavily into rifles and reloading. One evening he came home from work and told me to get ready.... we were going to look at some reloading equipment for sale. We met his shooting buddy and drove over to Orlando and arrived at this gentleman's home and walked around to a small shop behind his house. What I saw when I walked in the door was nothing short of amazing. Long story even longer, the gentleman was going through a divorce and needed money for his attorney's fees. I don't know how much they wrote the check for but I was told it was a steal. That was on a Friday night, the following day we returned with two trucks and loaded the entire contents of the building into the trucks (it took one more truck load to complete the move). Luckily my Father's shooting buddy had a large building on his property, slightly larger than the gentleman's. When we were finished building tables, shelves, etc., we had an array of 6 RCBS Rockchuckers, 3 Dillon progressives, and a shotgun shell loader (Lee, if I remember correctly). There was 100+ dies, case trimmers, tumblers.... everything you could imagine. Evidently the gentleman it was purchased from had contracts with some of the Law Enforcement Agencies in the area and did a LOT of reloading. I remember spending countless hours with my father reloading rounds for our hunting rifles and spending even longer at the range finding out how the latest reloads turned out. My father had stacks and stacks of reloading books - Lyman, Hornady, Hodgdon and so on that he would refer to and show me how to use. Thank you to the OP of this thread and those who contributed. I haven't done much reloading since my father passed away but I think I will start again. I need to catch up on what to purchase and start buying things up a little at a time. It's not that I need to reload to squeeze the last little bit out of a round or save money. Nope, I remembered how much fun it was spending time with my father and I have a daughter that loves to shoot as much as I do. I think it will be a good opportunity to spend time with her and perhaps work up a few good loads. [/QUOTE]
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