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Old 12-21-2005 | 10:02 AM
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KareImp
 
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Default RE: My first reloads

Thought I would add a comment to you gandilamont.

Your new to reloading, so I'll guess you are starting to build you line of equipment. At this stage of reloading, I think your focus should, and likely is, to be accomplishing safe reloading practices, and gaining experiences.

You should not be overly concerned at this point about your ability to find the recipe right away that will give you sub moa results. Getting sub moa results is often a very elusive goal, and can be accomplished by an unpredictable change in the recipe.

My suggestions - focus on safety first, it sound's like you may have done that with your given results, you just have to realize it yourself as a worthwhile and worthy goal.

Next, you will find reasons as you continue reloading to get more tools - like a stoney point guages for seating depth, different powders, a chrono, different primers. You don't have to worry about not having all of them now - just aquire them as you can, when you have a reason to employ the tool.

So the biggest suggestion from me - if you have used all of your currently available tools, just don't reload too many bullets for now. You may find in a year or two you want to come back to this gun, and use some of the tools you'll aquire during the next couple of years - for now, any suggestion we can give you would depend on what you have available. It is the elusiveness of getting the right recipe that makes reloading so much fun. Sometimes it is obtained immediately, sometimes it takes months of trials.

Looks like you are proceeding with building your knowledge, that's good. The best way for us to help you may be to know what equipment you have available, and if you have some room in the finances to purchase more. Then we could suggest your 'next' tool purchase.

Good job by the way. Congrat's.
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