After I bought a marlin 45-70 for my fathers birthday I hit the local shops looking for equipment and components.
I picked up 200 primers a pound of imr 4198 and 250 rnfp single lube groove bullets.
I grabbed a rock chucker with dies, and a set of lee dippers while I was running around.
Made some functional ammo. I'm glad I've graduated. I thought the 100 primers was a lot. Now I get upset when I see a shop selling in 100 packs and not bricks.
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My dad was a caster and reloader but mostly 38 Special.
When I got out of the Army in 74 dad had pretty much quit casting and reloading and had sold off alot of items. So I went down to the local shop and there on the used equipment table was a Green Sparten press, a green box of caliber .357 dies, a scale and off to the side a table of powders on special with a can of Unique waiting to get taken home. Still using Unique but now buy it in the gallon jug.
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IMR-4895 for a 308 and BLC-2 for a 222
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In the 60's, and probably Red Dot, AL-5 or AL-7. Use? 12 gauge. Of course, that was the first I bought. Not the first I used.
For me, it was a single pound of Power Pistol, for my fledgling reloading efforts. That was about a year ago or so, and that bottle of powder multiplied into a total of four. I think it did that on the shelf by itself. That's what I told my wife, anyway.
My First powder was a Pound of bulleye!
Green Dot for trap loads back in 1985. I was sixteen and on a trap team.
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H380 in 1965 to feed the first 22-250 sold in my county in 1964. It took me a year to save up enough money to buy a Lyman C press reloading set.
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My first powder was Unique. It's a handy one to have around, and I bought it for its versatility, partially on advice from lurking on this forum.
Dang, my memory is failing me. I don't recall which was first; IMR3031 for 308 win reload for my one rifle for woodchucks with 110 spire points or 800X for 20 gage skeet reloads.
Green Dot for shot shells!
45 ACP because shooting more than once is just silly!!
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IMR 4064 back around 1983. Got it for the 30-06 that I still use. I've always thought that 4064 gave the best combination of velocity for the amount of grains used.
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50# H4831 in cardboard keg with 5000 free CCI primers for the gun club M1 DCM Grand for DCM matches.
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Unique. Use it still for all my handguns.
1970. SR-7625 loading Remington Sure Shot hulls with a Rem 29922 power piston wad. Reloading done on a 12 gauge Lee Loader using my wife's bathroom scales to set the wad pressure. Since I was pretty broke, most of the old used cases I had obtained to reload had to have the case mouths either taped or closed with melted wax. I'm sure some of you guys have been there with the wax and tape.
IMR 4198 for a .222 Remington
One pound of Unique. It is still is my go to powder first, if that doesn't work then I try something else.
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IMR4227 and a Lee Lowder for my new 44Magnum 94 Winchester in the late 60s or early 70s (I still have some of that tin downstairs, lol).
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