Why Don't You Reload
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Unless you're making not poorfag levels of money, why don't you reload? I can make 50 rounds of .380 cheaper than it costs to buy 50 rounds of .22
the initial cost is a bit of a barrier, plus I don't really have a place to set up a reloading bench
>>29264109
I set up to reload 45 for $256 and I can reload for $8 a box and my local cost of 45 is $25 a box
>>29264090
Because I really don't care that much. If you enjoy reloading it's great, but it just doesn't interest me. My time isn't worth it.
>>29264109
Honestly I live in a single room studio, when I want to reload I just clamp it down onto my table with 3 clamps, and when I'm done I put it away in my closet. Takes maybe 10 min to set up.
>>29264131
Honestly making bullets (obv depending on press as well) can be pretty fast. I have a progressive press and I can make like 100 rounds in like 20-25 min.
>>29264131
see>>29264114
Unless you make $34 an hour, it pays if you shoot 45
Obviously standard FMJ in stuff like x39 and 5.56 is foolish
>>29264114
I have dies for .38/.357, 9mm, and .380. Biggest money saver is definitely for the .357 and .380. I can reload for like $8.5 for .357 and its like $26 at walmart for federal. And like $4.5 for .380 and I think its like $18 at walmart for 50
>>29264179
I want to get into reloading 308 only so I can draw up some accurate and fast soft points and other specialty loads for my FAL, unfortunately 308 is getting so cheap, I wouldn't really do it for FMJs
>inb4 FALs are innacurate
All guns can benefit from better ammo
>>29264176
I don't. I shoot 9mm, 7.62x39, and 5.56. Literally zero benefit to me. When I feel like dropping some cash on a long range set up for .308, then I'll be investing in it.
>>292264191
I don't shoot .308, but just looked online at the price and its .41 cents for some tula. If you reloaded you could probably cut that price almost in half, or even more if you cast your own slugs.
>>29264207
9mm can save money, but you gotta get some pretty good deals
I reload it when I need it and have time, but I usually only do defensive loads now
I can make up 50 rounds of HOT 124gr XTPs for under $13
That's nearly $50 savings over store shit and all the factory trash is slow as balls
>>29264090
Hello!
Kill yourself!
>>29264233
>casting 308
yeah I like my bore to not be filled with lead
and the cheapest I could reload 308 for was $13 a box
Granted if I got cheaper primers and powder I might drop it to 9 or 10, but I could never see $4 a box
>>29264267
You should learn what a gas check is.
>>29264276
>gas checking 308
okay I suppose
>not realizing that melting the lead isn't the only reason lead builds up in the grooves
>not realizing soft lead inherently gets torn off and left behind
i reload only my odd calibers
7.5x55 swiss cheese
7.5x54 french fry
8x56R Mann licker
.45 colt
.45 acpee
and other things
>>29264439
You should learn to hard cast and gas check.
I know people who shoot cast through 7mm rem mag with no problems.
Despite the /k/ hype, 308 really isn't that hot, and shooting cast through it is certainly not hard.
Educate yourself before you make claims.
>>29264176
I'm loading my .223 for around $4.25 a box. $.2125 CPR with tax and shipping. Not an astonishing amount of savings but significant if you shoot a lot.
Im currently trying to start reloading, Im poorfag yet so im starting with the basics to try it out. This is what i currently have.
>>29264583
>3100 fps isn't hot
Going to as soon as I buy a s&w .500
>>29264090
Is it worth it to reload 9mm? How much will I be saving? What are some good reloading guides? What equipment do I need to start? What are recommended brands/models of that equipment?
>>29265822
it's pretty meh
What's the bare minimum needed to set up babbys first reloading bench?
>>29265860
this was for 45 I believe and I was using expensive powder and expensive primers
>inb4 Lee hate
The D press will outlive you
However, I don't recommend the dies
I was getting up to 7 or 8 thou of variance on seating
Not sure if that was my choice of plated bullets, because it was a pistol caliber, or just bad dies though
From what I hear, Lee doesn't make the greatest dies, so I've banked on that so far
Unless you are a complete wasteoid with worthless time, reloading any semi-automatic cartridge is pointless.
However, for anything with a manual action (Revolvers, Lever Action, bolt action even if it is .308/.223) it usually makes sense.
But retards who crawl around for 9mm brass to save 2cpr are morons. Combined with muh cast bullets, yeah, enjoy your wasted time loading, and now cleaning the fuck out of your guns, meanwhile people who's time is actually worth something have already made more money in the time not wasted loading cheap calibers or cleaning lead they don't need to be shooting to justify buying and shooting more ammo than 9mm reloadfags.
>>29266014
>Unless you are a complete wasteoid with worthless time, reloading any semi-automatic cartridge is pointless.
>I've never looked into it in my life
>the post
see
>>29264176
>>29264114
if you cast your own and get better deals you can reload 45 for something to the order of $2 a box
Go learn something faggot
>>29266028
>waste my time casting bullets
>waste my time crawling around for casings
>time for case prep
>time for decapping
>time for loading
>time for cleaning because cast bullets
Not worth my time senpai. I don't know why my choice to not reload semi-automatic pistol cartridges triggers you so hard, but clearly it does. You should probably have your autism checked.
>>29266079
on a single stage press I can do 100 in an hour
If you bought it all and spent no time casting, you would literally have to make over $34 an hour to make it not worth it
And if you used Wolf primers which are nearly half as expensive as regular primers, you'd save even more money
Now lets say we're slow as balls and cast 100 bullets in an hour
That's still $23 an hour
Now lets include a progressive press
Unless you make $50 or more an hour, you literally cannot justify NOT reloading other than you simply don't enjoy it
To say it's not worth your time is asinine
>>29266092
forgot pic
>>29264090
Because by the time I get into this hobby, pay the initial costs, and figure out how to do it correctly Hillary will be the next president and this will all be banned.
>in before I lost my reloading table in a tragic boating accident
>>29266092
It's not worth my time
Thanks for valuing yours at about 2 cents per hour to argue with anonymous image board posters about this.
/k/ is so poor and salty when asked why they like milsurp or cannot afford a good reloading set up.
This place is gun owners equivalent of all those books you see in used book stores about eating well on a shoe string budget, except /k/ doesnt get good guns as they cannot save money at all.
>>29266148
>completely ignoring the fact that it's valued at $34 an hour
trolling is against the rules and is a bannable offense
1. My kitchen scale only does grams. Good enough for muzzle loading?
2. If we're going to play the volumetric card, can someone give me an idea of waht about 25 or 50 grain is? Like, how much grain in a 1/4 teaspoon?
>>29270358
>I literally pulled a number out of my bunghole
>>29264735
>3100FPS isn't available in factory .308 loads
Fastest factory load is about 2940fps from a 24" barrel, putting it around 2850 through pretty much any semi due to the almost-always shorter barrels. And that's with a 130gr bullet.
>M80 ball has an average MV of under 2700fps from an 18" barrel
>M80 ball is nominally 147gr (with a +/- 3gr variation)
>>29265822
How much do you shoot? Are you willing to use plated, coated, or bare lead bullets instead of FMJ? Are you willing to invest in at least a turret press if not a progressive?
Don't have any room to put a reloading setup.
Dont reload yet but reading up on it. As a first press should i get a turret or just buy a Dillion progressive? Would be 9mm/45 until i get something in 10mm flavor
>>29266079
And yet here you are during normal business hours fucking about on 4chan.
>talking about wasted time
Unless you actually have a full-time daytime job and several other part-time evening/night jobs and have literally zero free time, you have time to reload.
>>29272242
1. Only if you like ER visits and prosthetics.
2. Depends entirely on the granularity and brand of the powder. Fg cannon powder will take up about 3x the space for the same weight as FFFg pistol powder.
>>29272382
If you shoot over 5000 rounds in a year you should definitely get a progressive.
Between 3000 and 5000 rounds a year I would say is entirely personal preference.
Between 1500 and 3000 rounds a year you should get a turret.
Under 1500 rounds a year you most likely won't break even within a couple decades and should stick to factory ammo.
>>29266092
that logic makes no sense unless you would be working during the time you are reloading
>>29272298
see>>29265887
>numbers out of my ass
>literally ran the numbers
>>29272349
3100 isn't hard when reloading
>>29272242
Black powder is pressed to a density of roughly 1.6g/cm3. It is then corned and the settling puts it around 0.95g/cm3
>>29272437
Makes perfect sense as a counter to the asshole who keeps going "not worth my time" as if his free time has any monetary value if he's not actually earning money during it.
>>29272448
>3100 isn't hard when reloading
Find me a load at safe pressures using any >100gr bullet that makes 3100fps from a 24" barrel.
I WILL be vetting it against Quickload.
>>29272448
This guy again
>>29272458
Actually just ran numbers for H4895 and a 125SMK, 3217fps from a 24" barrel. My apologies, I was wrong.
>>29272457
1 cm3 = 1 gram = 15.4 grain
1 teaspoon = 5 grams = 77 grain
...sound about reasonable?
>>29272399
>difference of 1 gram is 15 grain
>this will kill you
pansy
>>29264267
Mine costs about $8 a box or $0.35/rnd.
>>29266014
I don't know that I agree with your point, but:
>wasteoid
somebody's been going to their tax accounting lectures, huh?
>>29266100
pls no
>>29272427
You should preface that with "in a single caliber". I shoot about 5000 rounds a year (not this year though) but that's spread out over a dozen calibers. Doing that on a progressive wouldn't be a good use of time.
What setup do you use? I'm really wanting to reload now that I've switched from 9 to .380.
>>29272427
nigger, it took me less than 900 rounds of 45 to pay off my single stage setup
And it was awesome when I was under 21 and couldn't buy pistol ammo
I THINK I GOT MY SHIT TOGETHER
So, you measure blackpowder by volume.
So, in reference to
http://www.curtrich.com/BPConversionSheet.htm
If I wanted to shoot a .50 cal muzzleloader with patch and round ball at 50, 75, and 100 grain (volume) of FFG, it would work out as follows:
100 grain = 6.67cm3 = 5/4 teaspoons (roughly)
75 grain = 5cm3 = 4/4 teaspoons (roughly)
50 grain = 3.33cm3 = 3/4 teaspoons (roughly)
I just want someone to check my math to make sure I am not a complete retard. Again, the calculations with conversion are rough, so they'll be out a little.
>>29273031
use the dowel method m8
You just mark a line on the rod or a dowel
>>29273031
oh shit, it turns out I am retarded. That would be nominally. I didn't use the Goex FFG constant. Back to the mathing board.
>>29273051
Actually, nevermind, the Goex FFG is slightly higher than 100, so if anything, the calculations would be slightly light loads
>>29273069
Actually no, the numbers on the right are weight. So if I just get a scale that can measure to a tenth of a gram, I'll be safe and I can forget this volume garbage.
Anybody here have an apartment setup they can share?
I have plans to apply for a home loan in summer '17, but I'd like something with a small footprint until then.
>>29273256
No. Fuck off.
>>29273290
>>29273256
yeah, a press on a board, you clamp the board to a table or (crafstman?) makes a foldup sawhorse table thing that works awesome for couchloading while watching netflix or whatever.
>>29273256
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kraut/media/Reloading%20Bench/ReloadingBench3.jpg.html
>>29264090
I don't shoot enough or make enough to justify dropping any real amount of money on reloading equiptment.
I do, however, keep all my expensive brass on the off chance that one day I might start.
>>29273256
>>29273256
>>29273483
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2015/12/build-portable-loading-bench-on-bd-workmate-platform/
extremely stable and folds up and drops down to comically small size for storage.
loved mine. threw the bench away when i moved cause i didn't have room in the car and shipping was more that i paid on craigslist.
>>29273514
now i just have a crappy desk i bought for $25 and i just drilled holes in the top and mounted my press with washers and wingnuts, with all the lead in the bottom drawers it's very stable as well
>>29272910
What's the name of this awesome 3D chink thing that keeps on memeing news?
I remember the one with robots burning normies at the stake, it was hilarious.
>>29273568
MikuMikuDance is common, but I don't think that's it
>>29272385
>normal business hours
>2AM
Kys
>>29264621
>Lee classic loader
fuckin nice tBqh phamm
>>29273491
>red stag tasty
>lee shir
>flavored fancy coke
NIGGER ARE U ME?
>mfw waiting for .45-70 dies
>>29264621
youre gonna blow yourself up with that ghetto shit son
>>29273568
tomonews?
>>29272242
you dont weigh blackpowder for muzzle loading, you measure it by volume dude. as in a scoop
>>29275032
You can honestly do it either way with BP. Volume is, with some debate, the accepted traditional way. That being said, it is hardly unheard of for people loading black powder cartridges to do it by weight for consistency.
My college doesn't allow guns, much less a reloading press in my dorm.
>>29264735
>I don't know enough to really rebut anything so i'll just shit out my mouth, the post.
You tried kiddo.
>>29264090
some of my go-to loads
308 winchester
42.8g RL15, 175g Sierra Matchking, CCI br2 primer, 2.262" at the ogive. lapua brass, neck sized with a redding competition die, shoulder and body are never touched. IIRC I get about 2690 fps out of a 26" tube with a match chamber. unbelievably low ES and SD, I shoot this load out to 1000 yds.
45 auto
5.5g W231 with a 230g cast copper plated boolit. usually berrys.
40 sw
5.0g w231 and 180g cast plated flat point
AR food
55g bulk FMJs with 25g H335 and a small rifle magnum primer
>>29264090
Lies that's considering that you already have 9x17 brass laying around.
>>29264276
Mah nigga
>>29273028
>found the guy with the Lee hand press
Doesn't count if it also took you 900 hours.
>>29276788
Not that guy, but since you brought it up, apparently it's easy to convert 9x19 to 9x17 Makarov.
http://www.surplusfirearm.com/2011/05/01/9x19-parabellum-to-9x18-makarov-cartridge-conversion/
Doesn't look like that's true for .380acp though.
>>29274365
Date stamp is saying 4pm for me.
So fuck you.
>>29264090
It's only cheaper if your time is worthless.
>buy muh nicely automated system
Only makes the buy in way worse. Unless you're shooting a whole ton (good for you) it doesn't make sense either.
>>29276818
single stage nerd
do it assembly line style doing one step to 500 cases at a time
>>29274998
Red Stag reminds me of being at the deer shack
Lee was cheap and it works
Vanilla coke is a gift from the gods
>>29276833
>non American
>having any valid input on reloading or guns in general
Kys
>>29275068
>my opinion on what qualifies as hot is different so I'll just call you an idiot
~u
>>29275184
HP38 is the same exact powder as W231 and it's cheaper
Just to help you out, senpai
>>29264090
>I can make 50 rounds of .380 cheaper than it costs to buy 50 rounds of .22
are you casting your own lead? because if not, you're full of shit.
>>29277544
>being American does guarnatee your 2nd amendment rights
>being American does not instantly qualify you as an intelligent human being
>>29277843
Stay mad faggot
>>29277552
Considering in many places in the US .22lr is still around 10-11cpr it is entirely possible with plated or store-bought cast bullets.
Let's see here:
>Missouri Bullet Company 95gr hardcast
6.5 cents per bullet if you buy a 500rd box (cheaper when buying in bulk)
>Ginex or S&B or Tula small pistol primer
2 cents per including hazmat when buying 5k+
>Hodgdon Titegroup, 3.2gr is 0.7 cents
>brass is free
That takes it to 9.2 cents per round with a widely available high quality commercial bullet and fairly expensive powder at max book load.
>>29276828
I'm pretty sure you meant to type 9x18
>>29277548
The same goes for Winchester 296 and H110
>>29264090
I reload 9mm. costs me $0.10 per bullet, $0.03 per primer and $0.03 for powder, so $16 for 100 rounds and its around $30 after tax at walmart.
worth it for me.
I can shoot for about half the cost and I reload while watching movies n shit so it doesn't cost me time.
>>29279523
I want to eventually get into reloading as a hobby, but it really doesn't seem cost effective/time efficient for me. I mostly shoot 9, so by your numbers it would take ~7500 rounds to pay for ~$250 basic startup cost.
>>29264155
Shit, they clamp on to tables? I thought they'd bolt or screw on.
Sign me up, what are some good single stage reloading presses?
>>29280184
I got a lee press and all the bits I needed for $100 (and it was a gift so no cost to me personally). I got a case tumbler for $45 bucks on amazon.
yeah it takes a wile to pay for itself but it does pay for itself. I also enjoy having something constructive to do while I watch videos and I am cheap as fuck so I like that I'm saving money.
>>29277545
>still failing to know anything about using cast bullets in full sized rifle rounds.
>still being an child
Don't worry friend one day, when you become an adult, you'll do some research and realize you are a buffoon.
Until then, you have my sympathy. Should you choose to be an adult, here is a link to a pdf of then 48th Lyman reloading manual, 308 is on page 216.
http://www.j-how.net/test/Lyman%2048th%20Reloading%20Handbook%20%5Bblackatk%5D.pdf
>>29280214
Like I said, I do want to do it eventually, but between work, school, spending time with the gf, and shooting, my free time is kill. And I don't think gf would appreciate me reloading during our netflix time.
How much time to reloading take? It always seemed to me that it was time consuming over work, school, etc but if not I might as well do it.
>>29280267
I won't lie to you, it takes a fair amount of time, and can be rather tedious.
It is a labor a love, and requires effort and dedication.
>>29277534
Vanilla coke is garbage.
Aside from that I agree with you, down to the Red Stag reminding me of deer season with my old man.
>>29280267
takes me about 60 minutes to reload 100 9mm rounds, around 90 minutes if I'm not really paying attention (which is always because I'm watching videos online when I do reload).
If I try and go fast I can do 100 rounds in under 40 minutes but that takes effort so I don't.
>>29277548
I didn't know this, thanks.
>>29264090
because I value my time more than the $1 an hour I'd save by reloading
>>29280360
>Vanilla coke is garbage.
do you want to fucking fight
>>29280617
/thread
>>29280617
>someone that doesn't shoot more than 3 bullets a year spotted
>>29280617
There is more to it than just the cost savings fudd. When I'm putting together rounds I'm not sitting there counting the pennies I'm saving, I enjoy it. It's a hobby all unto itself. If you just occasionally shoot your daddies thirdy ot six at beer cans in the back yard you will probably never understand. Get into long range precision rifle and you'll really grow to enjoy the precision that also goes along with loading your own match grade ammo.
>>29280617
>>29280691
congrats on not reading the thread
I can reload 100 on a single stage press in under an hour
And I'm saving $16 a box
So that's $34 an hour
>>29280267
Lotta factors play in. I go in usually 1000rd batches for all pistol calibers and 5.56.
>9mm, .45acp, .44mag
>progressive press with auto prime
>no case/bullet feeders
>Lyman high capacity tumbler will do ~900 9mm or ~300 5.56 brass at a go
From initial setup including changing dies and loading the tumbler to 1000 completed rounds is about 2 hours. If the brass is already prepped and the press already set up it's about an hour and a quarter.
>5.56 and .308 plinking loads
>progressive press with auto prime
>no case/bullet feeders
>same tumbler
Brass prep for 1000rds takes around an hour with a Giraud or WFT, most of it tumbling time and swaging crimped primer pockets. Loading from prepped brass is around 400 rounds an hour, so another 2.1ish hours for a total time of a bit over 3 hours.
I slow way down for my accuracy loads for all calibers because I don't trust my case-activated powder dropper to get exactly perfect with the powders I use for those loads, so I have a Culver-style manual dropper that's more accurate than my scale is.
SO.
Assuming all the brass prep is done ahead of time I can do about 750-800 rounds an hour for straight-wall cases and about 500 rounds an hour for bottlenecked cases if I'm going for volume.
>>29280710
nope, i shoot all the time. try again.
>>29280715
agreed that loading match grade ammo is the way to go, but if you want to reload in bulk and REALLY save money it's not worth the time.
>>29280718
>not reading the thread
sorry, the thread question asked why I don't reload and that's why
>>29280749
>sorry, the thread question asked why I don't reload and that's why
So you were just talking out your ass
>>29280718
>$34 an hour on something as mind-numbing as reloading rounds
ok
>>29280764
maybe it's worthwhile if you shoot expensive/snowflake calibers or want to make your own match loads, but brass ammo is available for 30-40 cents a round for a lot of common calibers
>>29280718
This.
>can do approximately 600 an hour from dirty brass to loaded round in .45acp
>saving ~$5 per box of 50 even over the cheapest of the online reman, and nearly $20 per box of 50 compared to local (can reload it for right at 16cpr/$8.00 per box of 50)
I'm making the equivalent of between $60 and $240 an hour in ammo savings reloading my own, and I'm not even using cast bullets.
>>29280767
the point is that you have to make $34 an hour to make it worth it to NOT reload
>>29280785
45 is $25 a box for me
I can reload it for $8 a box
I can reload defensive loads for $12
>for 50 rounds
>>29280785
I can reload for half the price of commercial and that's at match grade. Costs go lower when I reuse brass too.
>>29280785
And brass ammo can be reloaded for between 7-20 cents a round for those same common calibers. While also being resistant to panic buying and being more accurate.
>>29280767
>mind-numbing
You can reload while shitposting on /k/, hell I bet there are guys doing it right now. Throw on House of Cards and reload some 9mm
>>29280812
>am tumbling brass now
>am pretty much always tumbling brass, have at least one of my 3 tumblers going 24/7
I've trimmed brass while jacking off.
>>29280796
>600 an hour
>600 in 60 minutes
>10 rounds per minute
>6 seconds per round
seems likely
>>29280860
fully progressive press
look into it
>>29280860
The joys of progressive presses :^)
>>29280869
>>29280879
all right, and how much time spent cleaning brass, pulling spent primers, etc?
>>29280903
it doesnt really take any time to tumble brass, throw it in, turn it on and go have a coke and a smile.
the sizing die has a decapping pin, you can run a decapping die if you would prefer though.
>>29280954
damn, well okay
now I'll have to find another topic that I'm ignorant of to go shitpost about
thanks for that
>>29280903
>cleaning brass
Total time of about half an hour for 600 pieces of any standard pistol caliber, but that's also time I can be doing other shit since it involves no effort on my part beyond ~2 minutes to unload the tumbler and maybe 30 second to dump it in.
>pulling spent primers
My press decaps and reprimes as part of its normal operation so that's included in that 600 rounds an hour figure.
>etc
What etc? It's literally
>insert brass
>pull handle
>insert bullet and new brass
>pull handle
>repeat
If I get into a rhythm and have my bullet tray intelligently placed I'm well under 6 seconds per loaded round, what slows me down is emptying the loaded-round catch bin (only holds ~150 9mm or about 65 5.56) which takes 10 seconds, and emptying the spent primer bottle every 10,000 or so rounds (it's a 1L soda bottle with the lid glued to a flexible tube)
>>29264090
No space and starting costs are an issue
What's a good progressive press?
My 10/10 gunbro dad has a 60th birthday coming up.
>>29281020
I like my Hornady LnL AP, for what I do I think it's a better fit for me than the Dillons.
Dillon is considered the best of the progressive presses though.
>>29264090
I plan on it, but I have space issues atm. I still live at home because lolpoorfag student. I have a desk in my room, but its a glass top and I don't know if I'd feel comfortable clamping something to it. I could set up in by basement, but I have to worry about our dog chewing shit up.
>>29281020
dillon 550b.
or get him a lee if you hate him
Dillon 550b is a great press. Dillon is about the top of the line for progressive presses. 550b is one of their lower end presses, but still extremely good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKSMoDcCP1Y
A friend of mine has a hornady lock and load progressive, he does very well with it but I would get the dillon.
>>29281121
seems like his bullets weren't always sitting in the same position after pressing them in, is that normal?
I don't shoot enough to justify it.
Most of my guns get brought out once or twice a year to make sure they're sighted in and cleaned before going back into storage.
>>29281269
The bullets are probably being seated at a consistent length but the neck length of the cases is varying. He also could be short stroking the press, his table is wobbling like a motherfucker so seems likely.
>>29281287
why would they lose zero after sitting in the safe for 6 months?
I reload but I have a poverty lee hand press until the end of the month. Probably just going to bite the bullet and get a forster coax press for them sweet match loads.
>>29281346
Breaking your C press off the bench does not make it a hand press, it makes it junk.
But yeah, Forster is top notch.
>>29281331
Never hurts to check.
>>29275013
He had a 45-110 nigger
>>29275184
How many cycles do you get out of your brass before you toss it?
>>29264090
Was thinking of buying the lee 50th edition but I have no bench or much knolage so I am wonder would the lee 50th edition be good for a begginer?
I want to reload 12g and 7.62x39
>>29282661
Depends entirely on the load and caliber.
I have .45acp brass with over 100 reloads on it but normally split .223 necks after 3 loads.
>>29283072
shotgun presses are different than rifle/pistol presses. you'd have to get two separate presses to load those two chamberings.
>>29283845
Holy shot what loads do you use for .45 ACP that you get that great case life?
>>29264459
>odd
>.45 colt and .45 ACP
You're joking, right?
>>29265806
Go for .460 S&W Magnum instead. Then you can shoot the whole .45 Colt family in the same gun. With a .500, you don't have any options.
>>29282629
I hope you roll a magnet over your carpet before vacuuming.
>>29287064
Not just tula 9mm, a chance for it to be zinc washed tula 9mm.
>>29287185
I was talking about primers, but ok.
>>29280200
http://kempfgunshop.com/Kempf_Kit_w/_Lee_Classic_Turret_Press_-90064Kit-6575.html
It needs to be bolted down, but I've seen people bolt them to plywood and then clamp the plywood onto a table.
>>29287195
That may have been posted in the wrong thread.
I might be an asshole.
I am sorry.
>>29287195
I very careful with live primers.
When I was young I popped one with a torch just to see what would happen. Impressive power, and I've never forgotten. A shop vacation gets the few dead ones that sneak past the catch.
>>29287209
I used to do that before I had a dedicated work space.
>>29285648
maybe he meant .45 long colt?
>>29288572
He certainly did, but no one can call .45 LC odd. It's common as fuck.
>>29264090
Is there a pastebin for reloading resources? Does /k/ not do that kind of thing?
