Allright all you vicious and mean teasers :flute::flute:, i'll convert to reloading metallic ammo, but i need a little help. In the good old days i used to reload shotgun shells, but not anymore.
Last weekend my brother found out that the husbad of a friend of ours (that is in the army) reloads some ammo for his guns and how my brother also likes to shoot (but he doesn't hunt) asked me why i didn't reload for my rifles. He got me in touch with that friend of ours and i found out that the components aren't that dificult to get (at least the ones taht he uses), so all you folks, help me pic a begginers reloading kit (the tecnical and the specific matter my friend can help me, because he has several reloading data PDF's, from hornady, etc.).
He and a friend of him that i also met have the hornaddy Lock-N-Load® Classic Loader , press and dies, he has a hand primer feeder and he cleans his cases with a sonic apparel he bought for that.
They usualy buy some of the components online from egun.de, but the primers and the powders they buy locally. I don't know what kind of powder i can get, but with a light google seacrh i found several types of vectan but i think my friends can get others, at least they said that they could get at least one that can put a heavy load flying.
What do you think about the hornady press? and the dies?
What advices do i need to hear?
sorry i forgot to mention that i want to reload the 45-70, because i don't have many choices on factory loads here, and the ones that i find are too expensive to shoot frequently!
I will have to load piggynator rounds, the ones i use to shoot are too mild for big wild russians, that is the main game i hunt. i am using the winchester's 300gn jhp factory load.
I think that the 300gn jhp is more than enough to get a pig down, but i have to make it penetrate a bit more.
here in portugal it's not easy to find the kits you are talking about, but i'll try abroad.
Thank you for the info, i have a progressive shell loader and i used to reload for bird hunting, this kind of reloading have been a way that i found to go clay shooting many many times. i shoot thousands of rounds every months.
Crusty - i was thinking on a simple press too, i won't reload that many rounds to justify a progressive one. I may also try to reload for my 9,3X62, but that is only a maybe and not a priority. My friend already reload for some time now and he is available to help me on that, but he doesn't reload hunting calibers, only handgun calibers and maybe he can't help me on my choice caliber.
i'm looking at this one LEE Breech Lock Reloading Press Complete Kit 90030 new ! on ebay, or this one RCBS Rock Chucker Supreme Reloading Pressbut i think i'll go with the kit, because i'll only need the dies to get started.
what do you think??
I won't start reloading by myself and without getting ready by reading and get well informed on what i'm doing, i shoot for many years now, and i've seen some bad adventures myself, with destroyed guns and guns that came apart (my grandfather had some 20gauge shootgun shells reloaded at a gun store, many years ago and the reloader made the powder charge of the 12gauge on the 20gauge sheel, so when my grandfather started shooting them, the gun simply came apart, lucky that he didn't hurt himself) and some other stories that taught me no to play around with guns.
Keep it comming guys, all we begginers and pre-begginers on reloading can take a LOT from what you are posting.
Yesterday i spoke with a friend from other forum (portuguese forum) that used to reload and he was a rcbs fan, he said that almost everything that he has on reloading is rcbs and, as he is used to buy stuff here in portugal and online he is going to make a checklist of what he thinks that i need to start reloading and where i can find it.
He also said that he was a real fan of the 45-70, that from all his 20ish rifles he always prefered the 45-70 instead of all the others because of the stoping power and the fun that is to use a lever action rifle.
There are some more choices available, but much more expensive and i think that it's not worthy, because i won't reload that many rounds. Here we don't have that many shooting ranges and we can't shoot (legaly) anywhere.
Those options are economical and for what i saw on youtube they work fine and there are many videos showing how people reload with these presses.
security is the thing i value most! as i said before, i 've seen more than enough accidents with guns! to make my own accidents to happen is the last thing i want!
thank's for you concern
Die Hornady Cal. 45-70 Gov.
I was thinking about buying the hornady's but they don't come with the shell holder so if the kit i'll buy doesn't have it i'll have to get one too!
thank you for the offer but you'd already send me that file about the bottleneck cases, nice reading, very good info. i've already printed it and is already on a file i'm compiling.
But in regard of those 2 lee kit's, wich one will suit me better to start? better wich one will prevent me to have to spend more € to start (because the press is the same, the scale is the same, and several other stuffs are the same).
i forgot to mention that i will shoot these rounds on a 1895g ported!
don't know if this matters!!
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