tips to reloading?
01-25-2005 | 02:00 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
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From: Baileysville, WV
RE: tips to reloading?
You guys are scaring me off...lol. I have a bunch of stuff and am getting ready to set it up and give it a try...but...this may not be as easy as it looks. Got 3 manuals already/...plan on reading em all before I get to far involved.
01-27-2005 | 05:15 PM
#22
Boone & Crockett
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From: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
RE: tips to reloading?
Take it from someone who lost an eye. Wear the darn glasses. In one split second I went from a perfect right eye to no right eye. No it was not reloading. It was simply driving a nail. A piece of the nail head came off and went right through the eye. Never saw another thing through it. Never thought it would happen to me. It does.
01-27-2005 | 08:03 PM
#23
Fork Horn
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RE: tips to reloading?
Thanks James. Thanks for reminding us just how easy it is to lose something as valuable as an eye. I have three or four sets of safety glasses. After having to dig a metal sliver out of my eye once, I religiously use them grinding, weedeating, dremeling, just never thought about using them while driving a nail. Your story will serve as a reminder to me every time I think that I don't need them 'just this one time'.
02-12-2005 | 09:36 AM
#24
Fork Horn
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From: Altadena CA
RE: tips to reloading?
I keep all my powder, primers, and bullets on the shelf on the wall BEHIND me. The ONLY primer box on the bench is the same type as the primers that are in the loader. The ONLY powder can on the bench is the same powder that's in the machine. The ONLY bullets on the bench are the ones I'm loading for that particular round.
Do this religiously and you won't encounter "sudden rifle disassembly syndrome" at the range or woods.
Do this religiously and you won't encounter "sudden rifle disassembly syndrome" at the range or woods.
02-12-2005 | 12:34 PM
#25
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From: Rocky Top Tennessee
RE: tips to reloading?
Primers are not particularly dangerous, but they can go off and damage stuff. Powders can burn pretty fast, but don't explode. Lee says only CCI and Winchester primers are safe in their priming tools, and I don't know why that is. My regular corrective lenses are safety glasses, you can't buy plain glass any more. Even so I wear a face shield. there are some other parts of my face I'd like to keep stock. [8D]
02-26-2005 | 06:30 PM
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Dominant Buck
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From: WC FL
RE: tips to reloading?
ORIGINAL: Briman
Talk to old farts you see at the range about their reloading methds. A lot of them have been around long enough, have tried enough things, have made enough mistakes that they have already culled a lot of the BS from their methods. I've been reloading for about 10 years and I feel like I know very little about reloading as I learn something new every time I talk to people who have been doing this for 30 or 4o years.
Talk to old farts you see at the range about their reloading methds. A lot of them have been around long enough, have tried enough things, have made enough mistakes that they have already culled a lot of the BS from their methods. I've been reloading for about 10 years and I feel like I know very little about reloading as I learn something new every time I talk to people who have been doing this for 30 or 4o years.
Briman.....Is that old Farts just at the RANGE?.....How about this Forum? I don't know all the answers,but son I am pretty
sure my PRESS is older than you......COME BACK 10-4 ?
02-26-2005 | 06:57 PM
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Dominant Buck
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From: WC FL
RE: tips to reloading?
ORIGINAL: Mark whiz
Since you have live & in-person people to teach you, you are WAY ahead.
The best thing you can do is be VERY attentive to what they show & tell you and ask questions about everything that isn't 110% clear to you.
Reloading is a GREAT hobby and way to further your shooting efforts - but like all things firearm-related........... there are some inherant dangers to be on the watch for. Take the safe route in all things (even if it seems silly to you) and you can be loading your own ammo for the next 60+ years.
AND if your help there can't/don't answer your questions to your satisfaction - then check in with us here and on other forums to see if you can find out what you want to know.........take advantage of ALL of the knowledge you can get your hands on.
Since you have live & in-person people to teach you, you are WAY ahead.
The best thing you can do is be VERY attentive to what they show & tell you and ask questions about everything that isn't 110% clear to you.Reloading is a GREAT hobby and way to further your shooting efforts - but like all things firearm-related........... there are some inherant dangers to be on the watch for. Take the safe route in all things (even if it seems silly to you) and you can be loading your own ammo for the next 60+ years.
AND if your help there can't/don't answer your questions to your satisfaction - then check in with us here and on other forums to see if you can find out what you want to know.........take advantage of ALL of the knowledge you can get your hands on.
Great Advise,Mark! I'm sure his father appreciates it!