Those who Reload ammunition

I've been reloading on my own for 40+ years, and helped dad for some years before that...no hiccups just lots an lots of shootin'

Super Blackhawk. It cost $7.50 for (20) rounds! Making $80 a week at the Grocery store with a truck payment, insurance, gas ($0.55 a gallon) and girlfriend needing some Light entertainment it stretched me tight. (She’s my wife now) I could buy (100) JHP projectiles for $7.50. Primers were around $1.25/100. A pound of Unique was less than $10. My Lee loader was $7.50 also. I was in business! Later when I had troubles finding the more preferred cast bullets in .44 I bought some Lee equipment and began casting. I was 19 by then. It taught me the only limits were my imagination and physics.

I’m almost 58 now, so 41 yrs. loading and 39 casting.

In June of 1969 my dad gave me a Winchester 94 in 30-30. Christmas that year, Santa brought me everything i needed for reloading. My dad made the table the week before Christmas. All RCBS tooling, except the Forster case trimmer. Sierra bullets, and Ball C2 (Bl C2) powder. Sierra bullets are my favorite jacketed bullets still, RCBS not so much anymore.
Pretty long winded, sorry

Was a Spec 5 in the Army stationed in Germany. The pay was paltry so it was definitely a money saver so I could afford to shoot. Several of us chipped in together to buy a RCBS Rock Chucker press kit and dies. We reloaded 30-06, 357 and 44 mag mostly. Powder was was pretty limited to 2400, green dot, 231 and 760 through the exchange if I remember correctly.

I was mentored by a friend in 1970 loading 12 ga. A well experienced reloader supplied all the ammo for the local law enforcement. I started loading metallic rifle 1985. I was fortunate to have been able to do an impromtu speech on relaoding shotshell in my 10 th grade speech class.

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I worked most of a summer to save for a RCBS Rock Chucker kit, dies for a .357 and 30-30 and a rock tumbler to clean the brass. It was between 1973 and 1974, I was 16. Back then I had the guns but shooting was very expensive. I still have all of the original equipment along with a Dillon press. Having loaded thousands of rounds I have never had one regret. Still loading and still shooting after all these decades.

50 yrs. Still putting it out one at a time with my old Rockchucker...

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Started in 1968 with a lee loader in 284 Winchester had a lever action model 99 Savage it was definitely a challenge. Soon after I started using my brothers RCBS Junior press.

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About 30 years

I bought my first hiking/camping gun, a S&W 629-1 with 8 3/8" barrel. Even though the store owner took $40 off the price of the $440 revolver, I still didn't have enough to just buy some boxes of ammo. Instead I bought a 44 Magnum Lee Loader, a box of empty brass, a pound of H-110, a box of 240 gr JSP Speer bullets and a box of large pistol primers. I reloaded those first cases several times each, tapping them in with a claw hammer. I didn't have a car so I waited until later at night when the traffic was less and pedaled out to the borough rifle range to shoot it. My holster for it was a Bianchi shoulder holster.

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