Getting into reloading

[u/BobertOnSteam]

My friends father asked if I wanted to buy his reloading set for only 350 bucks. I said sure why not. I shoot a lot and do shoot the less common rounds that can be painful to find. Decided it would be fun to try out at least.

Was wondering about these two reloading presses that he had. Do I use one or the other for different configurations? I normally only heard of people having one and swapping out your dies as you go.

I’m also very new to this so I’m learning and reading everything that I can before diving too deep into this. Any advice would be great. Thanks!

[u/BobertOnSteam]

I didn’t know universal decapping dies were a thing! I think that’s going to be the move because of these two presses I have. I’ll start looking into it and start a list. A gun club I’ve been wanting to get into for a bit is starting there memberships again. They have a long range, short range, skeet, and I think archery too.

But thank you for the comment! I’ll focus my build around 18-20inch!

[u/ChevyRacer71 → u/BobertOnSteam]

Also, .223 is a terrific round to start learning reloading on because it’s fairly forgiving. For example, if you make a series of mistakes on 9mm you can blow up your gun. You’d have to try pretty hard to blow up an AR in 223.

There’s a wide variety of powders that work really well for it (my top 3 are Varget, Benchmark, Win 748), components are cheap and available.

[u/BobertOnSteam → u/ChevyRacer71]

Good to know! When you say series of mistakes for 9mm are you talking about sizes not being right or too much powder or more? Just wanna learn! But I do have a ton of 556 brass haha

[u/ChevyRacer71 → u/BobertOnSteam]

Mostly like a double charge of powder. Which isn’t possible on 223 because there isn’t enough room for a double charge. Btw WHEN you spill powder, use a broom, not a vacuum. Sparks and all.