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The practical guide to reloading ammunition tom mchale. As youll see on the following pages, the press is used to resize the brass cases, replace the fired primers and seat the bullet. Reloading products recommended for beginners midwayusa. We at great lakes ammunition are continually trying to educate the shooting community about things pertaining to firearms and ammunition. Have you ever thought how much do you spend on ammunition.
That will help you to grasp the complexity of the process and enable you to do it in the right manner. Massaro is the president of massaro ballistic laboratories, llc, a custom ammunition company, which is comfortably nestled in between the hudson river and catskill mountains of upstate new york. A powder scale is another essential tool for reloading. The rcbs book, the speer book, is really pretty good. If you want to learn to play the guitar, ordering sheet music isnt the best first step. Reloading handbook whether youre a novice or a seasoned hand loader, this book will provide everything needed to successfully reload your favorite cartridges. Powder scales enable the reloader to accurately determine how much powder is going to be placed in each round of reloaded ammunition. Discussion in main message board started by mao0720, nov 1, 20. I buy new brass cased 9mm for around 1718 cents a round. Our new ammo selection is full of the brands you trust for just about any gun you own, so you can stock up and take advantage of our oneprice shipping. And it only takes one cartridge or shotshell of the incorrect caliber or gauge, or which has been improperly reloaded, to destroy your firearm. A shotgun also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.
To determine what type of press to purchase, think about what type of reloading is going to be done. This box is full of 20 old but clean and original primed raised headstamp cases except theyve been reloaded with old cast. Technical manuals and books full of arcane data can make the subject. Beginners guide to reloading ammo 2020 pew pew tactical. For the truly obsessive collector of military ammunition boxes.
When you purchase ammo from the factory it is typically made to fit a variety of different guns. Squeeze the most out of your dollar by getting set up to reload ammo today. Dont miss the new products that will soon be available from rcbs. Unless otherwise described, all are in good condition with about 50% paint and. Although factory blazer ammunition is now available, for most of my shooting career, 9mm largo ammunition has been difficult to. Master ammunition reloader, bob shell, lists the very best reloading books that every reloader should have on his or her shelf.
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Gun users often purchase ammunition in local stores near them, but these shops may not have a good selection compared to vast online ammunition stores, which often provide cheap or even wholesale prices. There are electronic and balance scales available with a wide price range. As we all know there is an endless array of questions and debate out there about the differences between reloaded, remanufactured. For the most part a solid single stage press is considered the best press to learn on.
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It depends a lot on what you shoot and how much you shoot it. Apache junction, az anyone who contemplates getting into ammunition reloading needs a variety of tools and equipment. While mbi specializes in remanufactured also known as reloaded ammunition, it also carries a line of new production ammunition. In this video i go over 99% of the stuff you need to reload bullets. The field of head stamps is complex and anyone who wants to go deep into it will need a book to recognize them or visit one of the many online forums where cartridges are often identified. There are dozens of calibers of handgun ammunition that are widely used in the world today.
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