Your Reloading Secrets

kamikazetsunamis

What are the secrets to reloading?

My friends and I shoot a thousand plus rounds every few weeks. 45acp, 40S&W, and 9mm. We are interested in getting into reloading. What specific equipment do you recommend? Presses, tumblers, primers, powder, etc. Where is the best place to purchase any of the equipment?

All suggestions and experiences are helpful.
All wisdom is appreciated.

Thanks

dcs shooters

Wasn't this answered in your last post [?][?]

kamikazetsunamis

Yes, but as suggested I reposted it becasue the first one was locked out. The question with this one is more about location and ideas.

Thanks

konamtbiker

I buy most of my stuff from Midwayusa, Sinclair Intl., and Sportsmans Warehouse. If you want to get started, Find someone to show you the ropes then go and buy your equipment, you will then have an idea of the basics of reloading. The things i would suggest would run you out of house and home.

bpost

midsouth shooters supply Lee part # 90030. it is a good deal. Powder and primers, buy local S/B less than 20 bucks a pound and 25 a thousand, HAZ MAT fees will kill you.
www.patsreloading.com
www.powdervalleyinc.com
www.midwayusa.com

Lee or lyman bullet molds
any dies brand will do fine, carbide for pistol.
the more you load the more you will learn.

It is a simple three or four part process. Purchase several reloading boos and read them. the wealth of knowledge contained therein is priceless.

brier-49

Before anything else buy The ABC's of Reloading and read it.

flyingtorpedo

If you are interested go to a local book store and spend some time reading a book about reloading. I did that before I started. It will probably be cheaper to buy the book online than at a book store.

Also you could check out the turret presses. I don't have one so don't know much about them. I don't know about all of them but some you can lock and make it into a single stage which would be the best to start than after you get some experience you can unlock it and speed the process up a bit. The Lee website has a small video of theirs in action.
http://www.leeprecision.com/html/HelpVideos/video.html

geterdon69

get on midways site type in agi hand loading video spend 35 bucks and see if its what u want to do and all the ins and outs i think watching someone load give u better idea of what u are up against instead of just reading about it

ww2buff9067

From experience, and I am not implying that anyone is stupid except for myself on a few occasions, but always check that you have powder in the case before seating a bullet. It's not a hard thing to correct if you forget once or twice and find out about it while shooting with your buddies at the range, but it's embarrassing and a pain in the butt.

Mike

sandwarrior

Three places I go are:

www.gunstop.com I shop there personally as I live in the twin cities.

www.grafs.com Great place because shipping is included in the price. $3 handling fee for under a certain amount but you hit that with a big order pretty easily.

WWW.wideners.com and www.powdervalleyinc.com are the two best places for powder online.

flyingtorpedo

Graf's seemed like a nice place to me.......until I read more than 7% sales tax for me.[xx(][B)] I think it was closeer to 8%. That adds up quick. So it was off to wideners once again!

Cooch

If you are going to do that kind of volume I would suggest looking a Dillon. Lee is great for small batch work but their progressives have given me more grey hairs than my grandkids!!

Also...Read and listen. Further...in my neck of the woods there is a NRA certified reloading course. Covers basic safety and such which is a MUST when working with explosives.