Thread: Learning to reload

Originally Posted by Dchild

Hi all just wandering the what's and hows of learning to reload?

cheers

I suppose the first thing is to re-examine why you want to reload, because a basic reloading setup is going to set you back about $600~700. For instance doing it to save money on commonly available cheap calibers like say 7.62x39mm or 54R, probably 308 and .223 make little sense for hunting and ranges under 300m. eg I can buy barnual steel ammo for less cost than I can reload it for even ignoring the cost of the brass.

eg costs, primer 10cents, projectile 40~80cents, powder 40~50cents (308/russian54R) so about $1 a round. Barnual ammo is 87cents a round.

Then if the gun you have suits reloading, eg an SKS firing 7.62x39mm will lose most of its cases as the damn stuff flies 2~3metres high and off to the right somewhere at high speed, you will never find most of it to reload it. Semi-autos are also harder on brass so you probably wont get many reloads per case....

Now if you want to do it for the fun of it, thats cool, I find it fun.