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tom the days of going to the bx and buying anything hunting related here are long gone. the air force is about as firearm friendly as hillary and chuck schumer. anybody who owns a firearm is automatically labeled a trouble maker or a terroist. the air force is so civalized. phut, phut. sometimes i wondered how they could consider themselves a military organization. by the way i served 27 years in the af and i was a trouble maker.  PLEASE EXCUSE CAPS, HANDICAPPED TYPIST. "THE" THREAD KILLER IT'S OK......I'VE STARTED UP MY MEDS AGAIN. THEY SHOULD TAKE EFFECT IN ABOUT A WEEK. (STACI-2006) HAPPY TRAILS HANDLOADS ARE LIKE UNDERWEAR....BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SWAP WITH. BILL | |||
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1st ever was 1959 helping my father load 12 ga. My job was to iron the hulls on the hot-iron. My older brother got to use the shot dispenser. The press was a Pacific 2-station, maybe Texan. I can't remember for sure. In '62 we started helping with 270. My own first reloads didn't start until 1979, .44 Mag Lee Loader and shortly thereafter a .357. @400 and Bulleye for years, By 1983 I had a Lee Challenger that I used exclusively until about 3 years ago. "Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson. | |||
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Started helping Dad about 61 when I was 5 or so. 300sav for sure. Started shotguns around 10 started loading my own when I was 12. We use a lot of Bal-C. lots of reloads under the table by now. | |||
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That would be in 1974 I had just joined the air force and started reloading and hunting deer. The first round I loaded for was a 30-06. Hoeram  NRA Benefactor Member USAF Ret. | |||
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I cut my reloading teeth on the 243 Win. for a model 788 that I bought with my trapping money. That was back in 1973(?). I'm a 3rd generation reloader.... learned allot from my Dad and Grandpa.... They don't shoot nearly as much any more, but we still kick the subject around while visiting.  ______________________________ Well, they really aren't debates... more like horse and pony shows... without the pony... just the whores. 1955, Top tax rate, 92%... unemployment, 4%. "Beware of the Free Market. There are only two ways you can make that work. Either you bring the world's standard of living up to match ours, or lower ours to meet their's. You know which way it will go." by My Great Grandfather, 1960 Protection for Monsanto is Persecution of Farmers. | |||
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It was with a college buddy shortly after we graduated. He had already married and they had just bought their first house, so naturally he had set up a rockchucker press and invited me over to "load me up a couple of months of ammo" for my .357 revolver. (.38 special cases, since we had a bunch of cheap fired brass) As I recall, 3.5 gr of Red Dot and the Speer 158 gr lead SWC, CCI-500 primer. I don't remember the exact date, sometime in 1978. Do recall I brought back over 500 rounds with me and was amazed at how easy (and cheap) it was. It was less than a couple of months later that I loaded my first .243 Win. rounds on his press, with IMR-4350 and 80 gr Speer spitzers. Shot some ground squirrels with them the day after we loaded them, and I was hooked! Bullets are pretty worthless. All they do is hang around waiting to get loaded. | |||
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My first reloading efforts... 30/06, 180 grain SP and IMR 4350 powder.... second was a 270 with a 140 grain ballistic tip third was a 243 Winchester and then 22.250 Remington | |||
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 My first was in 8mmX57. Made cases from 06 military and I was firing 32 special bullets. The rifle was a G43 I picked up for $30.00 from a WWII vet. Hollywood senior press, Redding powder measure and a three beam balance  GRAM  scale.The destruction to a 4" oak was spectacular. The amount of bark removed from a mature tree by the ejected case was awesome. Strange thing;one of the only cases I found had no primer in it.  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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1965 or 1966, 12 gauge shotgun loads, using a Lee Loader (the thing that costs about $10). I think I used Green Dot or PB powder. I don't remember the primer. A bit later I got one in 20 gauge and loaded skeet loads for 20 gauge. Using this Lee Loader, I couldn't get enough pressure to get a good crimp with plastic shotshells, so I loaded only paper shells. In those days Sears still sold shells, and you could get paper ones, so that's what I used. With paper shells, you could get only about three reloads before the powder burned through the paper just above the end of the brass head on the shell. My first centerfire loads were for .308 Winchester, again using a Lee Loader. 165 gr. Sierra boattail bullet and IMR 4064 powder. I don't remember the brand of brass. I think it was with CCI 200 primers. "How's that whole 'hopey-changey' thing working out for ya?" | |||
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30-40 krag with a lee hand tool-that was in the late 60s while I was in high school. I think i used 180gr bullets and 3031 powder. | |||
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30/06 in 1960. 22/250 in the same time frame. Nearly blew up the rifle, one case didn't get any powder. Never made that mistake again. Stepchild NRA Life Member | |||
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