Hand Loading

To Chris4x4,
Try a 255 gr. Keith style SWC, with a healthy dose of 2400 in your Super Blackhawk. A friend of mine uses that bullet/load in his 10.5" SBH, and it is scary accurate at 50 yds.
I use the same bullet in my 3" M629, loaded in .44 Special brass using Unique powder (7.5 gr.). I get great accuracy with that load, and its very pleasant and cheap to shoot.

 

whats the cheapest way to get into loading i just bought a .308 and its cheap to shoot for a bigger rifle but i have always wanted to shoot my own hand loaded rounds

 

Have you checked out Dillion Precision. Best machines for the money out there.

 

Buy a Lee Anniversary kit.
Some are offered with the manual.
All you will need is dies and components.
Try to find brass at your range or buy cheapest brass, boxer-primed ammo you can find and shoot that then reload.
Varget powder is almost the default powder for the 51 case.
Read and read and read before you load cases.
Youtube has some good videos for setting up your press and dies.
Wish it had been around when I started.
Don't let anybody tell you Lee equipment is junk...it's just not professional grade and I don't know anybody that needs professional grade reloading presses.
Learn before you burn.

 

Most important, research, research, research.

 

i wish i could watch someone do it and walk me threw the first time ill have to try to find someone local i guess

 

haha yea i could see a how that could mess some stuff up maybe this xmas ill try it out

 

After using many, many powders for .308-type loads, I have settled on Hogdon's Varget power. I suggest you try it.

There is a Zen to handloading. It is best to learn from someone who has done it before. Don't buy premium presses and equipment until you are comfortable with it. Like anything else worthwhile, it takes practice and lots of experimentation at the range. Each rifle likes its own loading. Rifle barrels respond to each shot with a sine wave. Each sine wave has nodes (no motion), so the idea is to get the node as close to the muzzle as possible. This takes much experimentation with different loadings. Keep good records, you will need it, as your time and expense can be wasted on lousy loads. Trust me!!

 

i reloaded countless amounts of .243 ammo when i was a we young lad...haha my grandpa had me load all kinds of stuff for him and then he would sell it...child labor! lol

varget powder, cci primmers, and 140 gr, nossler balistic tips FTW!

 

still thinking about reloading some .308 i just bought a new model 700 and done alittle work to it and im ready to start with a lee reloader here in the next few weeks

 

My husband reloads..... 12gauge, 9mm, & 5.56 (?).
It's a MAN CAVE thing (I think??).

Some of the guys I work with actually smelt their own bullets. Now that's a serious hobbyist!!

 

yea i really want to start just so i know what im shooting out of my gun and so i can fine tune some stuff im not real happy with store bought junk seems to go all over the paper

 

Did somebody say - reloading??? Here's my setup:


Winchester primers are in stock at Powder Valley.

 

thats a sweet set up man im working on getting all my junk

 

Must be nice to be spoiled like that lol. I got a 25 year old reloading set where everything has its own machine. first pop out the primer with one die. store. repeat 100 times. then neck down and trim on a new machine 100 times. go back to original machine and put in the primer. repeat 100 times. move to a new machine and put powder in x110 (i measure every 10th for consistency). move machines. put bullets in x100. i cant usually stand to do more than 100 a day. with that thing though i could crank out thousands!!!