Mine was forming .308 Winchester cases from some .270, 30-06 & 7x57 brass i had lying around. They formed perfectly and i got a number of reloads out of them. But the funniest thing was seeing the puzzled look on other shooters faces seeing a .308 case wearing a .270 headstamp.

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Originally posted by Ken Cline:
Seems like many kids starting out with a 22 get into their first handloading....

How true, my first experience was removing the bullets from 22 LR and replacing them with a raisin to make a non-lethal load to shoot through my single shot .22 at all sorts of things...

This was my modification based on the stories from my old man about college days loading .44 mag with cotton balls.

My wife swears she will kill me if I ever share these stories with the kids!!!

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Today no doubt, we would have been put on mind altering drugs, enrolled in special ed. and been on some list, kept on some database by an unknown government agency.

Piggie's got that right.

When I was a young Army Lt. in Hawaii, there were always lots of long faces & sighing when week & month long exercises were announced. Silently, I was gleefully jumping for Joy as for me being outside of garrison and in the field was just another opportunity for another long, successful Safari ..... at the time the Hawaiian Department of Natural Resources was only too happy to have the feral goats & Wild Boar eradicated & I was happy to be able to make a contribution for the local environment.

A scoped 10" 30/30 Win. T/C Contender was always stowed in the bottom of my duffel bag w/an MTM box full of ammo. Delivered the resulting Booty to the Mess Hall where the Battalion Mess Sargent turned them into Gourmet delights for the "Officers Tent". Even the Battalion Commander who was not a hunter was delighted at the Menu "Options". It got to the point where I was receiving special requests so a Company or Platoon could BBQ a Goat or Wild Boar.

For those "stealth" Safaris inside the bivouc site a 4" piece of steel cleaning rod outa a M-16 charged with a blank cartridge will spear small critters cleanly at @ 15 Yards. Today I shudder to even consider what those things did to the rifling .....

Then there was the pit I made my platoon dig into the volcanic rock for disregarding trash disposal instructions. Turned into the best Pig Trap you ever saw.

..... memories .....

Don't know if they still sell these but years ago I bought some sabots a guy was selling that held a .224 bullet to be fired in a .308 bore. I loaded these up using the recomended powder charge that I think the guy got from QuickLOAD. I used a 55gr bullet and fired them out of a 300Win Mag. The cronogragh showed an average of about 4500 fps. They made a very distintive blast when fired, and put out a fireball about three feet in diameter. They are really only good for lighting up the Cronogragh, as groups were 12"-15".

I have always regarded it as a challenge when I see something labeled "No user servicible parts inside."

Years ago CCI made Blazer .38 SPL ammunition billed as "unreloadable". (Maybe they still do.) The cases were aluminium with Berdan primers of an odd diameter. Not reloadable? Huh.

I sized and deprimed them normally which removed the primer anvil. Then enlarged the primer pocket with an "I" size drill and loaded them normally with 148 gr. hollow base wadcutters and 3.0 grains of Bullseye. It worked just fine but the cases split after two reloads making it a non-productive, yet satisfying, exercise.

WOW.....I never did anything like you guys did.....