What do you love about reloading?

[monkeyhanger]

It might be a piece of reloading equipment, a favourite powder, primer or bullet.Anything that makes reloading a pleasure I will start it off. I've tried lots of different presses over the years, but the one I go back to is the Lee Classic Cast press. Solid, reliable with positive stops at top and bottom of ram movement. It catches the spent primers and just has a great feel when using it.

[Alpha1]

Empty cases.

[monkeyhanger]

The old style Lee round tray hand priming tool. Has a much better feel than the new square tray model.

[WelshShooter]

If not for handloading I would not be able to shoot my Mosina without seriously damaging it. Normal Mosin Nagant's would take a .311" diameter bullet in the 7.62x54mmR cartridge, but the M24 Finnish Mosina I have takes a .308" diameter bullet. The Finn's referred to this calibre as the 7.62x53mmR to make it clear they were different. My Mosina thanks me for feeding her a fine Finish lapua/vihtavuori diet by producing excellent accuracy for a ~100 year old rifle,could not believe that it was repeatedly hitting the top half of a Fig11 target at 350-400m! If not for handloading, would such awesome accuracy be possible? It's stuff like this which reminds me how important reloading is to me.

[Oddbod]

For hunting ammunition: My RCBS Chargemaster 1500 combo.

For priming: The RCBS universal hand primer, as there's no changing shell holders & the only change neededcis the ram when going from large to small primers.

But most of all I love the way every worry & thought fades into the background whilst concentrating on reloading - the ultimate 'chill out'.

[monkeyhanger]

The Lee pro auto disk powder measure, so easy to use and so versatile. Combined with the fantastic Lee powder through expanding die, it makes single stage reloading a breeze.

[Blackstuff]

Being able to restock my ammunition whenever I want and not having to worry about availability in gun shops. Oh and not getting funny looks for asking for 500rds of .223

[Mike A]

My shed.... an island of calm in a crazy world.

[dromia]

Oestrogen free zone.

[phaedra1106]

Oestrogen free zone.

Unless a well known Scottish-Mackem turns up of course