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Old 04-25-2013, 12:40 PM
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Nomercy448
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In your shoes, I would not reload for it myself. If you don't have any equipment and you don't shoot the rifle much, you'll end up having a lot of money getting into it, developing a load, only to use the rifle for a few hunts.

Another disadvantage, if you're flying to your hunt, your ammo might not make it with you, so it sometimes pays to have a VERY COMMON factory round that shoots well in your rifle that you could pick up from any store when you get there.

Now, if I were you, my plan would accept the risk of losing your ammo mentioned above, and have a local reloader that I trusted reload the ammo for me. No sense in getting $300-1000 into a set-up just to go on a couple hunts. A local reloader can work with you on developing a load, all you'd need to do is supply dies, case length gauges (unless he reloads your cartridge himself), and components.
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