Why is it that, on occasion, we can spend money on a gun getting a nice hand lapped custom barrel, blueprint the action, bed, float, lap, replace lugs, etc. etc., Spend lots and lots of time working up that load til we get that 'tack driver'...then go to the range, and the guy next to you is taking his brand new rifle out of the box, feeds the cheapest factory ammo through it he can find, and it groups under 1/2" too without ever breaking in the barrel?
Though, I've personally never had a factory gun do that with factory ammo, and I've spent tons of money trying different factory ammo.
Quote: Oh weed hopper, You have much to learn. You will buy many gadgets and doo-dads. You will buy many different brands of powder, bullets, brass, and primers trying to get that "perfect" load. You will never quite get there. (If I stopped buying new stuff now it would still take me 800 years to amortize the cost of what I already have.) Reloading will make you poorer. Reloading will also make you very happy. JCN
Let us not forget, because you will have saved soooooo much money, you will shoot more often so that you may become "one with your gun..."
Posts: 225 | Location: Colorado Springs USA | Registered: 23 July 2004
The first thing I did when I got my first set of Redding dies is order the 5 pack of replacement decapping pins thereby guaranteeing that I will never need one.
Posts: 12603 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: 30 December 2002
If you are showing some one how to reload and they drop a cartrage into the spent primer catcher, they will put the cartrage through the resizing die with out wiping the dirt off.
Posts: 2134 | Location: Ohio | Registered: 26 June 2000
If you drop the resizing die, it will fall in such a way as to bend or break the decapping pin.
If you drop a ready case, it will fall on the neck and bend a neet dent into the thing.
The first time you use your new Lyman electronic powder measure, you will invariably leave the rear cleanout port open and dump 1 pound of VarGet all over your reloading bench. Yep, that's what I did!
Hank
Posts: 225 | Location: Colorado Springs USA | Registered: 23 July 2004
True, but if you put the foam padding on your concrete floor that machinists use to keep from wearing themselves out from standing all day long, you'll save your de-capping pins and cases. As I recall, a ~2'X4' pad will set you back about $20.
Posts: 7213 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 27 February 2001
