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  • tools2teach
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 1936

    Noob has a few questions on reloading

    Just starting to get my equipment and inventory ready to start reloading. I'll I need at this point is powder and bullets. I will be 9mm, 45 ACP, 223, and 308.

    My question is

    1) Can I use the same powder for all calibers? What powder do guys recommend?

    2) Where are places online on locally in Orange County where I can find ?
    A golf course is a terrible waste of a perfectly good rifle range. -Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
  • #2
    Desert_Rat
    Senior Member
    • May 2007
    • 2289

    1) Can I use the same powder for all calibers? What powder do guys recommend?
    NO.You need a manual and it will show what powdres to use.223 and .308 I use imr 4320 and blc-2 for my 9mm I use Unique
    2) Where are places online on locally in Orange County where I can find ?
    No help here I'm in Kern Co.

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    • #3
      pdq_wizzard
      Veteran Member
      • May 2008
      • 3813

      Originally posted by tools2teach
      Just starting to get my equipment and inventory ready to start reloading. I'll I need at this point is powder and bullets. I will be 9mm, 45 ACP, 223, and 308.

      My question is

      1) Can I use the same powder for all calibers? What powder do guys recommend?

      2) Where are places online on locally in Orange County where I can find ?
      it has been said before and I will say it agian, get at lest 2 manuals and buy the ABC's of reloading, read them cover to cover before you even open the box your stuff comes in.
      Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?
      A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

      Originally posted by M. Sage
      More what? More crazy?
      You live in California. There's always more crazy. It's a renewable resource.

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      • #4
        r08ert209cali
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2008
        • 1534

        plus 1 on above.

        universal clays or tite group for the pistols
        varget for the rifles of the top of my head.

        If you don't have a manual don't reload.

        you never stated what you where trying to achieve with said ammo.
        Blasting,target,hunting etc

        I dunno, I've never been much for guns. I mean, sure, we have the usual gun by the door, another near the TV, one in the kitchen, and another in the bedroom...and several others laying around. For the most part though, we keep our home free of guns. We are peace loving folks.

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        • #5
          tools2teach
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 1936

          target mostly.
          A golf course is a terrible waste of a perfectly good rifle range. -Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

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          • #6
            pdq_wizzard
            Veteran Member
            • May 2008
            • 3813

            other powders I have had luck with were the RAM SHOT line of Rifle and pistol (mostly because I can find them in stock and they are cheep).

            TAC will work for most loads on .223 and .308 and I have used ZIP in my 9 and 45
            YMMV and have fun it should be a hobby and not a job to reload.
            Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?
            A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

            Originally posted by M. Sage
            More what? More crazy?
            You live in California. There's always more crazy. It's a renewable resource.

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            • #7
              Brasspolisher
              Member
              • Oct 2006
              • 133

              Originally posted by tools2teach
              I'll I need at this point is powder and bullets.

              2) Where are places online on locally in Orange County where I can find ?
              Fowler's seems to have both in stock pretty regularly, and at fairly reasonable prices, too. They also have a lot of small parts and reloading accessories. If you don't have 'em yet, two things you might want to also pick up are a bunch of plastic cartridge boxes to hold your new treasures, and a bullet puller (just in case some of the batch aren't treasures...)

              Edit:

              Fowler's Gun Room
              358 S Tustin St, Orange, CA
              (714) 771-3730‎
              Last edited by Brasspolisher; 11-20-2009, 8:16 PM. Reason: Added location for Fowler's

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