mrfishy, I am glad you brought this up because like you, I to want yo get into reloading. I was wandering if anyone could give advice as to what reloading manual would be best suited to a greenhorn. One that gives the differences of powders. stick, ball ,etc... also what kind of high quality scale do you recommend? I have saved 30-06 brass for years now and have over 5000 pieces of brass. Another question. how many times can you reload 30-06 brass with avg charges.How do you know when the brass is getting to weak? I also heard that the wall thickness of brass is different from one maker to the other. So if you were going to buy brass as I will have to do for my new 338, which brand? where do I find suppliers.also I think that rock chucker sounds pretty good, so I will check into that. Thanks everyone DAKOTA NUT 5.