If any one in my ao wants to learn how to reload there own ammo send me a pm I am home from time to time I would be happy to coach you on how to reload , and then you can decide if reloading is for you or not with out having to buy equipment and supplys O0,,note if You do decide to reload your own buy data books and reloading books not to worry I can put togather a list(small).
Wade
Offer of showing how to reload still stands ,,looks like I should be home before the next shoot dec 31 jan 1st.
Wade
Anyone wanting to save money, (usually) make ammo more accurate than factory loads for their rifle/handgun, and learning to be less reliant on the local gun store/walmart should take Wade up on this offer.
I've been trying to get my youngest son to reload for years with no success. Recently he bought a .40 S&W handgun (I don't have one, never will and have no stock of ammo for it) and decided he wanted to start coyote hunting (so I gave him a Savage bolt action rifle in .223 Remington).
His first reloading session was to try five different powders in .223 Rem. to see if he could find what his rifle liked best. The H335 gave him the smallest groups. Yesterday he sat down to reload 100 rounds of that same "recipe" and before he was done he'd gone through a whole 1 lb. can of H335 and had a jug of about 250 rounds of very accurate .223 ammo for his varmint rifle (who knows, it might shoot good in his AR15, too, but he hasn't tried it yet.)
He sat down Thanksgiving day and loaded almost 400 rounds of .40 S&W ammo for his pistol. He started out to load a 100 rounds, found out reloading is no big chore and can be kind of fun (learning, doing, and having more ammo to shoot when you go to the range) and he just kept going to he'd gone through all the brass we'd been accumulating.
Folks, reloading can be very rewarding both from a cost savings over time and from time spent with the kids teaching them when they get big enough (or finally get interested).
Rifleman should be taking advantage of learning new skills that support being a rifleman. I think reloading your own ammo is one of those skills.
Wade, are you getting any responses to your offer to teach reloading? I hope so - reloading is a lot of fun.
- ShadowMan
I have heard it said that reloading will not save you money on shooting, it allows you to shoot alot more for the same Money
Quote from: WAshooter on January 29, 2012, 10:46:37 PM
I have heard it said that reloading will not save you money on shooting, it allows you to shoot alot more for the same Money
True dat.
Well reloading does not save money on one hand since you end up up shoottting more for the same money another good thing about reloading is since you had to take the time to load up the ammo one tends to take the best shot they can ( you allready have time invested in it whats a little more) So for the same money you get more trigger time your trying harder and learning more I see it as a Win Win Win O yea and better ammo so there is another WIN so for abit of time you get 4 Win's,,,how can you beat that ?
Wade
Quote from: Wade on March 18, 2012, 04:23:31 PM
Well reloading does not save money on one hand since you end up up shoottting more for the same money another good thing about reloading is since you had to take the time to load up the ammo one tends to take the best shot they can ( you allready have time invested in it whats a little more) So for the same money you get more trigger time your trying harder and learning more I see it as a Win Win Win O yea and better ammo so there is another WIN so for abit of time you get 4 Win's,,,how can you beat that ?
Wade
And the process of reloading is also an enjoyable stress reliever.
I would be interested in taking you up on it, where is your "ao"??
Quote from: Atmosfear on July 19, 2012, 12:56:45 PM
I would be interested in taking you up on it, where is your "ao"??
+1 Also interested if you are still offering. Where yat?