Many years ago, I was around the age of 17, I was over at a buddies house talking with him and his father about guns. I figured out pretty quickly that his father knew a lot about guns. Being very eager to learn I hit him with a flurry of questions. Eventually the conversation turned to ammo at which time he took us down into the basement. He introduced me to his RCBS single stage press called the Rock Chucker. Over the next year and half I spent a lot of time with Mr. M learning about reloading. Eventually I brought my own equipment and started reloading my own ammo.
That was 33 years ago and I am still reloading today. I have not bought factory ammo for my hunting rifles in over 2 decades. I have talked to a lot of people who would like to reload but are afraid, you need to respect it but you don’t need to be afraid. To date, I have not blown up myself, the kids, the dogs, or the house, nor I have started any fires. I have not blown up any of my firearms either, in fact I haven’t even come close. It is not near as hard as you may think.
There are many reasons for creating your own loads, and maybe “creating” is not the best word for it. Technically, you are taking data compiled by different manufactures and working out a formula that works consistently best in a particular firearm. Which is what got me interested in reloading in the first place, Mr. M demonstrated the perfection of his ammo verses off the shelf stuff. You can also save a few bucks in the process, reloading is cheaper in components but it is costly in time. But it can be very rewarding time. My children spent many hours at the bench with me. This was icing on the cake for me. And you earn some serious bragging rights as well. And my bench is a place where I can spend a few hours escaping some of the pressures of life. There were days when the whole family would invade the reloading room and we had a lot of fun. I didn’t get near as much done on those days but they were very good days any way.
This will be a serious of posts. I will post these on the main page then move them to the 
reloading page. I hope you will find them useful. Any one who wishes to live a comment or suggestion, or ask questions is free to do so. I always welcome ideas. If you have found a good efficient way of doing something and would like other reloaders know please leave a comment.
To someone new to reloading this all may seem a little over whelming at first. Hang in there, in short order it will begin to come together and before you know it you will be off and running. There are many parts to reloading, I will start with your reloading equipment. In these posts I will only talk about the equipment I have used, for equipment I have not I will be posting videos that I have found on You Tube that do a good job dealing with a particular piece of equipment. From there I will move into manuals and information available on the internet. Then we will move into the components, components assembly, and the testing of the loads.
I cannot stress this enough, anyone who is a reloader and would like to live a comment or even contribute with a post is free to do so. I am always open to learning new stuff.
Over the years I have met many riflemen who reload, they are a little different from most. And like every area in the shooting sports, you will always find they are willing to give out good information for free.
CDP
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