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Question: Easiest cartridge to reload?

beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
edited July 2005 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
IE, what's the ideal beginner cartridge?

I figure it has to be either .38/.357 or maybe 9mm/45ACP.

Also, can anyone give me a ballpark per-round cost for loading pistol ammo?
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think the .45 is easiest. It is large enough to see double charges easily and very forgiving in loading. Powder 1.6 cents, primer ditto. bullet 4 cents for cast or cast your own for a penny each..

    Total cost about 7.2 cents a round.
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  • richbugrichbug Member Posts: 3,650
    edited November -1
    Not the 9mm, the tapered case is tricky, and 9mms are very sensitive to OAL, pressures spike are a bad thing. Auto pistol rounds have to be the proper length to feed well. I would say that a 38 or 44 is the easiest.

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  • BittersweatBittersweat Member Posts: 294 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    .40 s&w is also very easy to load. Have loaded thousands on a progressive press and find them no more difficult than .45acp.
    So between .357, .40, and .45, I would call them equally easy.
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  • haroldchrismeyerharoldchrismeyer Member Posts: 2,213 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have some of those plastic 38 special cases that use the plastic bullet and the push in primer. You can load about 50 in ten minutes.
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