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Any FFL's or reloaders out there?

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rugerdon wrote:
Sorry...you are going to be inundated with advice...and I have some more.
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What he said.

I asked my grandfather for reloading lessons for Christmas one year. It so happens he'd gotten rid of all his .45 ACP firearms (he wanted to concentrate on his Cowboy action-shooting caliber), and that he had a bunch of bullets and casing left over. I just had to drive down the street and buy some primers. :celebrate

I will say this, make sure to test fit a couple of rounds out of every batch, or you could end up like I did, with a few hundred rounds that were still too wide. I didn't have my 1911 with me when I went to visit my family, so I could not verify their size.

Thankfully Speedy Mercer (for those of you that know him) let me use his reloading setup to fix them. :)

After that I only had to deal with the fact the only powder my grandfather had left was his smoky show powder. :lol:
 
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Hey everyone, I appreciate all the info.... There is a lot out there but it seemed that every source I read said something different. I bought myself another gun for fathers day/our anniversary (which is also today), but the camera that I bought my wife for the anny was still significantly more than my gun, so I am thinking that reloading equipment may be coming here real soon and I won't get any complaints from the better half! :lol:
 
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