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1960, 30-06 on my Uncle Guy Anderson's Hollywood Press! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Very early in the 1960's with 12 ga. shotgun shell reloading. Red Dot I believe. Quickly "graduated" to 30-06. I can recall using IMR 4064 and 3031 back then. Now an obsession with too many calibers to count. | |||
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1968. One of the local gun shops offered a free class on reloading. Reloaded for .30-06. I was 13 and the youngest in the class by far. Dave In 100 years who of us will care? An armed society is a polite society! Just because they say you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you. | |||
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1972- at the tender age of 17. .38 Spl., followed by .222 Rem, .44 Mag., .45 Colt, .30/30, .25-06, .30 Herrett, .300 Savage, .35 Remington, .30/06, 8x57, .45ACP, M1 Carbine, 6.5x55, 7.62 Mauser, 9x18, 9x19, .30/40 Krag, .44-40, .303 Enfield, .32-20, .25-20, And probably a few I've forgotten about..... Porosonik. Vetting voters= racist. Vetting gun buyers= not racist. Got it? | |||
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1966 started loading 44 Mag for my flat top. Then in 67 I started loading for my 6.5X257 using reformed 30-06 MG brass, 48.0 grains of milsurp 4831 and 129 grain Hornady RN projies. That very gun may account for a deer yet this year as it has not been out in the field this year . . . yet, now it is loaded with 140 Hornadys and some ball milsurp that I do not recall. 20 rounds last a while when one round a year confirms zero and one only hunts limited number of times with it. Before anyone gets their drawers in a wad, the way I hunt means a 100 yard shot is pretty long. Don't limit your challenges . . . Challenge your limits | |||
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I started in 1962 loading 20 ga. shotgun shells using the old Lee Loader in the red box similar to the one in the photo below. I didn't load any rifle rounds until years later which were .30-06.  [/url] | |||
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1972 30-06 Remington BDL using a Lee Loader. Rifle would shoot 110, 130 and 160 gr into a nickel at 100 yrds off a rest. Hooked for life. Now I reload for 223, 6.5x55, 30-06, 35 whelen, 357, 44 mag, 45acp and still enjoying it. Over the years, I have managed to hook 5 people on reloading. | |||
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1962. At the age of 15 I bought a near-new Remington 722 in .257 Roberts for $65. In with the deal was a Lee Loader, a box of 87 grain Speer's, a can of 4064, and a box of primers (sorry, I can't remember whether they were CCI or Remington). With that set up, we made some great ammo. We would shoot at each other's cowboy hats, offhand, at 300 long paces. My buddy did better than I. My hat had two holes in the brim, his none. NRA Life Member DRSS-Claflin Chapter Mannlicher Collectors Assn KCCA IAA | |||
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Just to clarify: We wouldn't be wearing the cowboy hats at the time! They would be leaning on a hay bale. NRA Life Member DRSS-Claflin Chapter Mannlicher Collectors Assn KCCA IAA | |||
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Probably 1964, which would have been age 10, on a Herters press/dies/shellholders/etc. .30-06, 150 gr Sierra, 49 gr IMR 4320, RA '54 brass. This according to my Dad's notes made in Speer #7. About same time loaded .30 Carbine w/110 gr Sierra RNs and Speer 100 gr 1/2 jackets, Hercules 2400. Can't remember the charge. | |||
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1978 .357 mag | |||
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I think in 1965 on a 22-250, then a 7 mag. jmbn Old and in the way | |||
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1964 with Herters equipment loading a 243 with 85 gr. Sierra bullets and as it was then known 4831. | |||
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16ga Shot shells in 1968 age 12 .22-250 & .30-06 in 1975 age 19 GOA Life Member NRA Benefactor Member Life Member Dallas Safari Club Westley Richards 450 NE 3 1/4" | |||
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Probably 1989 and a Lee hand loader for my 8mm Mauser 98. Just used the scoop that came with it. Can't remember which bullets I used. We used to turn old clay bricks to dust at 100 yards with it. Life itself is a gift. Live it up if you can. | |||
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Another year gone. I started in the mid-'50s loading shotgun shells with an old hand-me-down Lachmiller press and dies. I then moved up to loading .38 specials for my dad, and then on to loading for my .30-06. I still have the '06 and my dad's K-38. C.G.B. | |||
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1976 and .38 special. Casting bullets and buying linotype for 20 cents per pound. Free lead and wheel weights then as well. I still have a can of H-110 from 1976-77 with a price tag of $3.15 on it. LOL, loved those days. | |||
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1965, for a .270 Win that I built on a Savage 110 barreled action with a Herter's glass-bedded and semi-finished French walnut stock. I was in high school, and shared the cost of the equipment with a friend, who had a .243 Savage 99 lever. My best load in those days used IMR 4064 and 110 gr. Sierras, devastating on fox, jackrabbits, and crows. | |||
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1961 22-250 35.5 grs. 4895 Sierra 55gr. spitzer Never seen a 22-250 that refused to group that load under a minute. Jim White Prescott, AZ 99% of the democrats give the rest a bad name. "O" = zero NRA life member | |||
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