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In the past, I've basically been a Reloader-I found basic loads that "fit" my needs & didn't vary much.....No longer satisfied with this.....Now I've joined The Handloaders Bench because I wanta be a Handloader when I grow up!
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| Posted: Wed May 28th, 2008 09:51 AM |
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SCSlim wrote: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." I read someplace once that a "handloader" is one who loads new, unfired brass; a reloader is one who re-loads brass that has been fired at least once. Not much magic, romance or mystery wrapped up in those daffy-nitions. so how would resizing an existing case that had been fired to another calibre fall into this, since it had never been fired while in its new form would it quaify as new or does it still fall into already fired brass. thats something to ponder on. 
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I think forming your own brass from another caliber is Yankee (or Southern) ingenuity, rugged individualism, a can-do spirit, and it adds up to more fun that a man should be allowed to have! A buddy of mine got himself a TC in .357 Herrett. No ready-made brass available. I have a .30-30 - lots of brass available. Click, Bang! Push, pull, push, pull ... presto! .357 Herrett ammo ready to fire form. Quick trip to the boonies and blammo! .357 Herrett brass fire formed and ready to go.
Now, I skipped a couple of steps in there I'm sure, but the main things is that it was fun. And those Herretts postiviely ROCKED the indoor range. All lanes on the "Hard Side" were packed when we started. We were pretty much alone in there after touching off about 5 rounds.
On a much less complex level, I make .45 S&W Schofield brass out of .45 Colt brass when the latter develops case mouth cracks. I trim it down to the proper length and it happily goes through the Schofield dies, slips right into the chambers and goes BOOM! when I press the trigger.
Back in the day when you could still find Berdan primers here and there, I bought some and reloaded a dozen or so rounds of CCI Blazer 9mm Makarov rounds - just to see if it could be done. I took some .38 cal rubber bullets, an old bucking bar with a hole in the middle, a dowel of the correct diameter, and some water. I filled the Blazer cases halfway up with water, stuck a rubber bullet in it, put it over the hole in the bucking bar, set the dowel on top of the rubber bullet and hit it with a plastic mallet. The water pressure popped the Berdan primer right out the bottom! After drying the cases thus processed, it was a piece of cake to reload them and they worked just fine.
So, did that make me a reloader, a handloader, a pioneer, an inventor, or just plain crazy? Maybe a little bit of each, but it sure was fun!
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