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<blockquote data-quote="Glock 40" data-source="post: 3313239" data-attributes="member: 32"><p>Lots of good info above. I started reloading back in the summer. Its very enjoyable if you are detail oriented. It can take a lot of time and will burn up a lot of money if you jump in. Once you have a good understanding of what your doing you can spend money to speed things up and to get more accuracy. You hit a point like with most things, where you have to spend lots of cash and time for very tiny returns.</p><p></p><p>A couple pitfalls I ran into at first. 1st if your gun is new you need to break it in. So I wouldn't even worry about trying to develop a load until you have a 100 rounds down the pipe. Just work on building your basic load to book and shooting it at steel or something. Most guys I have talked to that know what they are doing say it can still gain velocity up to 200 rounds. I made the mistake of loading my first rounds for a new gun. At first my groups were pretty awful and it was a bit demoralizing. After I ran the first 100 or so and started figuring out what I was doing. Then I started getting some good groups. Last weekend I used my load and dope to hit stuff at 200,300,400,550 and 600 yards without a problem. This load is also half MOA at 100 yards. That is very rewarding when you do that. I can't wait to stretch it out even further.</p><p></p><p>For sure run that press as a single stage to start. You want to take your time and check everything twice until you start to understand what you are doing and what you are looking for. Get a good set of digital calipers if you don't have some. Make lots of notes of what you are doing especially when you start load development. Get yourself a couple loading blocks and do everything one stage at a time. Moving processed ammo from one to the other. When you drop powder. Use a flashlight and inspect every single case in the loading block to make sure nothing looks out of the ordinary. Use lots of lube on your cases. Stuck cases suck and it shouldn't take the force of a gorilla to resize a case. Again for the first 100 rounds I would buy the cheapest Hornady SP bullets and just enjoy the learning process.</p><p></p><p>If you got questions just ask. Lots of good help on here.</p><p></p><p>Adding in [USER=43171]@Cowcatcher[/USER] who has some good 6.5 load data.</p><p></p><p>Get yourself a Dillon blue small dust broom at Dollartree. Best $1 you can spend for relaoding. It's not if but when you clean up powder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glock 40, post: 3313239, member: 32"] Lots of good info above. I started reloading back in the summer. Its very enjoyable if you are detail oriented. It can take a lot of time and will burn up a lot of money if you jump in. Once you have a good understanding of what your doing you can spend money to speed things up and to get more accuracy. You hit a point like with most things, where you have to spend lots of cash and time for very tiny returns. A couple pitfalls I ran into at first. 1st if your gun is new you need to break it in. So I wouldn't even worry about trying to develop a load until you have a 100 rounds down the pipe. Just work on building your basic load to book and shooting it at steel or something. Most guys I have talked to that know what they are doing say it can still gain velocity up to 200 rounds. I made the mistake of loading my first rounds for a new gun. At first my groups were pretty awful and it was a bit demoralizing. After I ran the first 100 or so and started figuring out what I was doing. Then I started getting some good groups. Last weekend I used my load and dope to hit stuff at 200,300,400,550 and 600 yards without a problem. This load is also half MOA at 100 yards. That is very rewarding when you do that. I can't wait to stretch it out even further. For sure run that press as a single stage to start. You want to take your time and check everything twice until you start to understand what you are doing and what you are looking for. Get a good set of digital calipers if you don't have some. Make lots of notes of what you are doing especially when you start load development. Get yourself a couple loading blocks and do everything one stage at a time. Moving processed ammo from one to the other. When you drop powder. Use a flashlight and inspect every single case in the loading block to make sure nothing looks out of the ordinary. Use lots of lube on your cases. Stuck cases suck and it shouldn't take the force of a gorilla to resize a case. Again for the first 100 rounds I would buy the cheapest Hornady SP bullets and just enjoy the learning process. If you got questions just ask. Lots of good help on here. Adding in [USER=43171]@Cowcatcher[/USER] who has some good 6.5 load data. Get yourself a Dillon blue small dust broom at Dollartree. Best $1 you can spend for relaoding. It's not if but when you clean up powder. [/QUOTE]
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