What do you love about reloading?

[monkeyhanger]

The lyman,rcbs or forster case chamfering tools are great to use and the hornady primer pocket cleaner, combined with the lee case length gauge, cutter and stud, make light work of case conditioning

[Alpha1]

Wamadet press.
L.E Wilson case trimmer.
L.E Wilson neck bushing dies.
L.E Wilson seating dies.
Arbor press. Making L.E Wilson seating and neck bushing type of dies.
Making sizing dies for my lyman lubsizer.
N.O.E bullet molds.
Shooting shed cartridge over all lentgh gauge.
Shooting shed caliber specific bullet/ measuring gauges.
Any thing shiny from the shooting shed.
Lee loaders. Modified Lee loaders.
Hornady micrometer seating dies.
Lyman lube sizer.
Case prep and general gun smithing stuff on the lathes and the mill.
It amazes me how I find the time to actually shoot them.

[spikedueller]

For me it's the sight of a clean cast bullet straight out of the mould soon to be loaded into a cavernous black powder cartridge case for calibres long since faded into obsolescence.

[Alpha1]

Target master powder trickler.
Same as the previous poster shiny bullets fresh from the mold.

[FredB]

Buying an obsolete calibre rifle: sourcing, modifying or making the brass, sourcing a bullet mold. Do we need dies? If so, can we use or modify some that we already have? If not buy some---expensive from C4HD. Put the rifle on ticket and, while we wait for the FAC tp come back, get casting. Does the bullet need sizing? If so, make a die.
Look through manuals to find the nearest case volume and bullet weighy and estimate a starting load. Load up some test rounds and get shooting. Develop the load over a few months and then: off to the Trafalgar Meeting and hopefully win a competition with it!
Fred

[sclg]

Very taken with the new TargetMaster powder trickler I've just got. Works well.
Also like the magic that the ultrasonic cleaner performs on the dirty old cases that go in!
Steve

[RufusRover]

The whole process - Start to finish.
Cleaning the brass, measuring each powder charge and knowing that .1grn difference will affect the point of impact. Seeing 50 or 100 finished rounds sat there ready to use and then shooting them, seeing how they group and knowing the you made them that accurate.

[Daryll]

Truthfully? Nothing. It's a chore that competes with other activities. I reload to bring costs down so I can afford to practice. If I can buy factory re-loaded ammo for only a small premium on doing it myself (and lately that's actually been possible), the reloading equipment sits unused. I haven't pulled the handle on a press in a couple of years now.

Having said that, I am about to retire so that small premium may prove too much soon, and I will have more free time, so the reloading is almost certainly going top be worthwhile again.

yep, same here... i don't really enjoy anything about reloading, its a means to an end.... if I didn't reload, I couldn't afford to shoot as much as I do..

[Keithkilvo1]

The process of turning dirt used brass into shiny new Ammo, the best thing I've done so far is buy a Dillon XL650....mesmerising to watch and use