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[icentropy]

Nice set reloading set ups! May have to give in soon and start reloading too. Anyone in Ventura County available to show me how?

If you find anyone to show you, let me watch! I'm in Camarillo and have a place/bench with a single stage setup but haven't actually started reloading. I'd like to find someone to help me get started as well.

[olhunter]

Thats a start buy for handguns you want a progressive press also stop buying bullets by the 100 and powder by the pound start buying in bulk 500 bullets/8lbs of powder at a time trust me

And don't forget the surplus powders and bullets. Saves even more money. It comes and goes, you just have to watch the website for new supplies.

Here's some -

http://www.patsreloading.com/patsrel/prices.aspx

http://www.gibrass.com/gunpowder.html

[NationsMostWanted]

Isn't the ammo law changed again. Thought the 50 round per month is gone

[Ascout]

handloading is one of the most rewarding things you can do in shooting sports(when done correctly). You can tailor your ammo to your gun and your purpose and do so with rational pricing decisions. It's also very satisfying to develop loads that outperform commercial ammo (easily done) for your purposes at reduced cost. And you can solve some very specific issues this way, if you're having any. The versatility is astounding, load down, load hot, load in-between, depending on who the shooter is going to be.

And the Quality Control is all yours, for better or worse, so if you produce more reliable ammo due to good technique, then you get pride in that as well.

At least one good reloading manual is a must (I happen to like Speer, but there are other fine ones out there, and much to be found on the internet). It's also helpful if to be mentored by another experienced reloader who's priorities and technique you trust to take you through the steps with all the "and watch out for this" admonitions that experienced loaders have accumulated by experience.

DO get experience with straight wall cartridges before moving to necked cartridges first, and with bolt or lever rifle ammo before proceeding to semi-autoloader rifles, collectively called "gas guns". That's the advanced course.

Don't get unrealistic, complacent, or just plain sloppy and it's just as much fun as shooting itself, and makes the shooting that much more enjoyable.

IF I hadn't made the move to handloading thirty years ago, I doubt I'd be shooting much, if any, today. Certainly it would be rare. One definitely enhances the other so it's a "greater than the sum of it's parts" thing.

[Bellehood]

Your not the only one, I am happy they passed that law, it will soon be repealed, and it was the straw that broke my back and finally convinced me to move to a better state. Welcome to the club, try not to kill yourself haha.

fix'd

Washington is waiting for you

[Blackhawk556]

what the start up cost?

in an hour..how many rounds can you reload?

thanks

this^^^^^

also

does anyone know if bass pro shop or any other place has classes that will teach people about reloading?

[1forall]

Nice...I've been thinking of doing the same thing.

[neal0124]

Very nice. That was my f-u to californias dumb law as well. Like you I started with 45 but went single stage.

To answer a couple questions, initial cost for me was around 500. I can pump out approx 50 rounds in an hour with my single stage. I'm assuming progressive and turret presses can put out around 250 or so in an hour. If I'm wrong, someone who has one chime in and correct me.

With my Dillon 650 I have loaded up to 800 rounds in an hour.