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Re: going to start reloading
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:54 am
by Napier
You may find that you quickly tire of a single stage. Keeping the partially completed rounds in one block. Transferring them to another block after the next step. Changing dies. IMO a sturdy turret press is the better choice. Takes about half as long as loading single stage. I have a Lee Classic Turret. Combine it with their press stand and you have a very compact aesthetically-pleasing ergonometric setup.
Re: going to start reloading
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:14 am
by Jumping Frog
One safety advantage of indexing presses is one cannot double-charge a case during normal operation. The disadvantage of a single stage press is one must use a manual safety process since there is no mechanical safety.
That means good loading practices on a single stage press include having cases without powder on one side of the press and your cases with powder on the other side of the press. As you charge each case with powder, place it in a loading block. When the loading block is full, use a flashlight and visually verify consistent powder levels in all the cases in the block before moving to the next stage of bullet seating/crimping.
Something like this:
Re: going to start reloading
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:12 pm
by CrimsonSoul
So after A LOT of research between the Hornaday and the 650 I'm going to go with the l-n-l. Only thing is every seems to be sold out of everything until may or june at the earliest :( I did find it on amazon though, just waiting for Wednesday to buy it!
Re: going to start reloading
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:59 pm
by CrimsonSoul
Well I have everything ordered except for the consumables now I need to wait at least 1-2 months for everything to arrive but I got free shipping on like 75% of it because of amazon (yay) and holy crap like everywhere is sold of of any type of reloading supplies, this is worse than trying to buy factory bullets just about lol
Re: going to start reloading
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:26 am
by x007x
AndyC wrote:CrimsonSoul wrote:I'd be looking to load 5.56 rounds .40 and .45
Any of the turret and progressive presses out there can handle those calibers - question is, how quickly do you need to crank rounds out? Do you plink every so often, want to shoot often or competitively? The more expensive presses crank out rounds faster - not really relevant if you want to shoot 100 rounds per month.
You'll need at least:
A reloading manual (ABC's of Reloading is excellent)
A press
A set of dies per caliber
Powder-measure
Reloading scale
Case-trimmer (when it comes to reloading bottlenecked cases ie. typical rifle cases, a case-trimmer is needed as those cases stretch under firing)
Components - cases, bullets, primers and powder
Calipers for measuring
Thank you for having the items properly listed. It was hard to tell what was a new item with one of the users not using commas(,).