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  1. For mid/long range shooting I would consider this a minimum and it's still not everything I use.   1) RCBS Rock Chucker single stage press. It's solid, cheap if bought used, normally around $50-75. 2) A decent set of reloading dies for your caliber. Used average $15-20. New check places like MidwayUSA. 3) A case cleaning electric tumbler, either wet or dry. Used at Pawnshops or at Estate sales around $30 on up. 4) You'll need a loading tray to sit the cases up in while getting them ready. $10 or less. 5) Case lube for when you de-prime/resize/prime cases. Couple of bucks. 6) Case trimmer to cut the cases to length as they will expand after firing. Used $35-75. Check pawn shops. 7) A case mouth hand uniformer. $10 or so used. Maybe $5 if you look around 8) A primer pocket uniformer tool. $10 at most gun shops, sport goods stores. 9 A good scale, either manual or electronic to get consistent powder charges. My RCBS 750 was new for around $100 or so and works fine. 10) A funnel to drop the charge into the case. A couple of bucks.   One other optional thing you might look into is a case neck turner. They're probably average around $35-50. Imho it uniforms the neck tension on the bullet. You might turn the neck thickness on a .308 case to .0012. Since you;re just starting out so I'd skip this for the first 6 months or so unless you have unlimited funds and just gotta go for it.    Optional things are = to just how anal a reloader wants to get in order to get that nth degree of accuracy. Once you get past the reading stages you begin to do one more thing to close that group even more. It's not normally that "one more thing" that closes the group but a conglomeration of little this that you do consistently that helps close the group. When that's all done then you gotta learn to shoot accurately at those distances.    Imho turret presses have their place on reloading and they're used for high quantity, quality reloading. I have a Dillon 550B and use it for pretty much everything anymore. They have their own set of issues and might be a good second press after you understand the ins and outs of reloading. For instance, its really easy to double charge a pistol bullet. It's very hard to double charge most rifle loads because normally the case will be 70-90% full so a double charge will overflow the case when you pour it.  I also have 3-4 single stage presses cause Im lazy and I got them cheaply. I use one for pulling bullets. One as a de-primer for my big .45-70 and .45-100 cases. I don't neck size this because I use huge freight trains for bullets...500 to 550 gr lead cast round nose bullets that have more than enough bullet/case tension. My last one I just throw one whatever other die I might need to use. My .45-100 sometimes needs to have the case mouth expanded so I set and leave a die in one press.    As you learn more you will probably change out equipment to more precise presses, etc. The good news is you can sell off what you don;t want anymore and buy replacements with the money. Or you can put the older pieces to good use.   I'd buy the book, Handloading for Competition. There's tons of good info in it.  Ild also suggest any shooting book by David Tubbs he is an outstanding rifleman.   Lp
  2. Old part here. This is all I use. [url=http://s587.photobucket.com/user/ren1795/media/aperture%20front%20sight_zpsk7rhjjfg.jpg.html][/URL] Eyeballs like circles. rear aperture, front globe, round target. circles within circles, within circles. Your eye adjusts to the white of the light surround each circle. It's almost cheating because changing out the size of the inserts brings a LR target into sharp focus. Kinda like a scope without the power. And like a scope yer looking at the target exactly the same so it's just click adjustments to dead center. I was shooting my BP .45 cal muzzle guzzler with aps and globe and I couldn't see a 7 inch target at 112 yds until I looked down the sights. All of a sudden I could see it like was standing 10 ft away. Bang...hit! Tired eyes love these. Lp
  3. Dark in there was it? My officers has a tendency to put out tons of flame just as dusk closes in. Then again it's a 3.5 in barrel and W231 has a tendency  to burn dirty and slow.
  4. I'm not sure where there are scrap yards for metals. I always have scrap brass lying around and I could turn into cash to use for new brass.    The one thing I label is my powder dispensers since I have around 6 of them. I keep my mt powder cans in case I change powders but 6 just  isn't enough to keep them stocked with powders I use to reload.    Everyone has seen the outcomes of using the wrong powder in a case, like pistol powder in rifle cases. DOH!   Yer .pdf appears to be working but yer .doc does't appear to do anything.
  5. Sleet in Bartlett now. Had a mix of ice and snow for a while. I gotta go in at 2pm. I think I'll leave at 1pm as it's 14 miles.    The good news is the airport should be clear by the time our jets start arriving tonight. The drive home will probably be slow because  they say the temps will get up to 34. If that happens the sleet already on the ground will melt and refreeze into sheet ice.    Fun.
  6. I believe there is a range up in the Dyersburg. We also have a large club here in the burbs of Memphis on the NE side of the city. The club is called MSSA Memphis Sport Shooting Association. For you it'd be about a 1/2 ride to the range. I think active duty guys might be able to shoot either cheaply or free. Bo sure. If you're in Atoka I gather you're working at Millington?  From Millington it's around a 15 min ride.   You might ask around at work if anyone shoots at MSSA.   We have skeet, trap, 5 stand, wobble wheel, sporting clays, 3 gun, ipsc, cowboy action shooting, silhouette RF, CF and BP, 7/15 yd slow fire, a 25/50 yd range, 2-100 yd ranges, a 200/300 range and a 200/300/400/500/600 yd range.  There's more like archery, even an axe and knife throwing range. No .50 Cals from Mr. Browning as we don't want someone killing the neighbors dog 2 miles away after the round goes through the berm. .338's and pretty much anything else is welcome. 
  7. $34 is a lot of laughs for putin....No hating just not sure I'd send that kinda a money.... It'd be nice if they had Pelosi and all the rest of our Socialist on the Stalin + poster.
  8. That's the way we used to buy Enfields. They'd have them in a barrel for you to pick from. $20 each. We'd take them home and cut the stock  down to turn them into our deer hunting rifles. They were a dime a dozen back then with no collector value but ammo was plentiful and they got nice and light for walking in the woods after a little work with a saw. It was around '72 when I got mine.
  9. I was paying $39 a month for comcast cable for the internet. $70 to me means they will have to show me something spectacular and believe me I'm not  any fan of comcast.
  10. Prayers on the way for a successful surgery and a double quick recovery.
  11. I finally got a chance to dial in my percussion rifle. I had to do a little smithy work on the rear Wiliams Aperture sight as the previous owner had it mounted about a 1/2 inch to low. I remounted it by drill and tapping new holes in the plate. I got everything ready and loaded up the truck tp head to the range. I started my sight in at 50 yds and after 3 shots I was pretty much centered on the bull. I shot a three shot group of about 1/2 inch to confirm the sight in. A friend had stuck ip a ram at 75 yds and a 7 inch round plate at 112 yds. I held just on top of the back of the ram and hit it just above the shoulder. My buddy asked how many clicks of up I had given it and I told him I just used hold over. He then told me he was using 15 clicks of up to go from 50-->75 yds. I gave the Williams 15 clicks of up and laid on dead center. I put the first one dead center but right at the bottom on his belly. The second one was a 1/2 inch right of it. I gave it 3 clicks of up and bang...dead center. So I asked my buddy how many clicks he uses to get to 112 yds. Answer was 35 clicks of up. So, now I dial in the 35 clicks and fire a round. It's low. Just under it. I fire another one which just hits the the base at 4 o'clock. Im thinking Im low so I give it four clicks of up. It hits 1/2 inch south of center. I reload and fire another one. It touches high, on the edge, at 1 o'clock. Hmmm, let's try that again. Now it's way high off the target. High Right. I say to my bud, something must be loose somewhere and I hope it's my my screw. He asked if I had cleaned it. I told him I performed my usual ritual of running a damp patch down the barrel between each shot. He said he normally runs a brush down his after 5 rounds and the reason for it is the dirt that accumulates during firing and increases the pressure. Higher pressure makes the bullet running hotter and hit higher. I ran a brush through it then reloaded and bang! Low center mass. I fired 2 more. Ding, Ding. Lesson learned! I thought I'd pass on this learning experience with BP. Pics: looks like a beater but she will shoot lights out. DaveS. I plan to start again on dialing in the Flintlock next week. About my setup. My rifle is home (read custom) built years ago using a Douglas .45 Cal barrel. A double set trigger that will go off if you don;t keep your finger off the it. It has a Williams Aperture Rear Sight that's windage and elevation adjustable. A front Globe Sight with inserts that was soldiered on. Since it's a percussion I use Triple 7, FFG. 35 gr. for a target load. Blue Stripped pillow ticking works for a patch cut to 3/4 inch square. Patches are wet in water then the excess water is pinched out. I also use an aluminum arrow with a funnel on top as a drop tube to minimize powder on the sides if the barrel. Then I use a rubber mallet to tap around the breech area to ensure the powder gets into the channel. I still have to drill and fit the ramrod knurls on it.
  12. You might not like to hear this but NONE!   Re-makes are easy money but stifle creativity. I don't think there's a movie producer today that could come up with an original  movie.   I stopped going to remakes.
  13. The original safety chains looks like the ones we used on our swing sets when the kids were young.    Very nice job.
  14. .38's are good to practice with also. You can load them both.   What amazes me is I was visiting relatives in the PacNW and drove over to a sporting goods store in ID. The only thing they didn't have tons of was  .22lr. The shelves were packed with factory ammo. They also had every powder you could want for reloading along with the rest of the supplies, primers, etc.
  15. Thats a good deal. I spent a lot more for my older beretta 303
  16. I thought their sales price for a lifetime was $400. when did it go up?
  17. I've been reloading for years and I don't ever remember lubing the inside of the case neck. I have polished the expander/decapper  to make it much smoother going in to expand the neck.  If you lube the inside of the neck the powder will get glued to the inside of the neck as you try and drop it into the case and you may have a mess. If you just gotta lube the inside of the neck you may have to put the tumbler to clean off the lube. Way to much work for a simple operation.
  18. Please don't get so fired up that you cause yer own heart attack. Simmer down and look at your options for health care or in other words fire that  snake oil peddler and find a good doctor right away.     My family has you in our prayers so you will have no more issues getting the correct care and get those problems fixed sooner than later and we wish you the best at making that happen.
  19. You might want to look at one of your JHP's and note there is not a huge cut where you crimped it.   Try backing out the crimp die until it holds the bullet and you cannot pull it out using your fingers. Then give the die a 1/4 turn in and lock it there.     If you want to confirm that's good then just pull the bullet and you will see it holds without cutting into the jacket. 
  20. I fairly certain I wouldn't want a family member who has been diagnosed as bi-polar to own a gun or have access to one. If the voices going on in they're head win one day....they might hurt themselves or someone nearby. Not a good choice for a gun owner.
  21. Here's me and my sister back around 1957 or so. [url=http://s587.photobucket.com/user/ren1795/media/mesis3_zps9ebffab2.jpg.html][/URL] Adults .25 cents. kids free. :D !
  22. The place where the grass that looks like weeds comes from? :)   Yep, around 1976 when my folks lived down there. Don't remember much about it other than it's way too hot  and humid for my taste.
  23. It appears to be a lil over crimped to me.

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