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Midway USA says I have been a customer for 26 years.


I had been reloading for a year before I discovered Midway.

I got my RCBS Partner kit for Christmas when I was 12.

My boys will have gotten started well before I did. I was self taught though. My dad wasn't in to it.


When did you guys get started?

25 years ago

Around 16 years ago

Over 35 years now.

One of my best friends and I self taught at about age 15. My dad had the reloading equipment but had not reloaded for 6-7 years. We took the equipment and set it up and learned how to reload from the first few pages in a Speer reloading manual.

~38 years. Started with RCBS equipment. Hornady manual was my 1st book.

This. Pards dad had his bench set up in the kitchen of their 10x50sh trailer house.

Did some reloading back in 19 & 81/82 with who I thought would eventually be my FIL.
haven't touched any reloading equipment since.

That’s what I did as well

1996 in Kodiak AK. I had a 257 Roberts, a 35 Whelen and a 45-70 that I needed stout loads for. That stuff was all but impossible to find on the island and online ordering wasn't a thing then. You had to root through catalogs and call in orders.

In my early 40's.

Self taught. Started with .38 wadcutters and HP38.

Don't reload nearly as much as I'd like.

Shotshells-51 years
Metallic-45 years

1991, after I got back from Desert Storm and used the money I'd saved up during that time to buy a Colt Lightweight Commander, Ruger Redhawk .44 Magnum, a Rockchucker starter kit, and RCBS dies for both calibers. Bought them all at a small shop in Virginia Beach.

I knew nothing about handloading when I bought the gear. I picked the Rockchucker because it was $20 less than the Lyman, and $40 less than the Redding kits. The owner of the shop threw in a used copy of "The Gun Digest Book of Handgun Reloading" written by Dean Grennell and Wiley Clapp. Those two gents taught me how to load ammo.

Still have that press and those dies, and use them a lot.

Bout the same as DocHolliday
Shotshells 53 years
Metallic 48 years

Dad taught me to load shotgun shells.
Metallic I figured out on my own by reading a reloading manual.

I was 14 years old in 1979, when I got my first deer rifle, a Remington 788 in .308. After I blew through a couple boxes of factory 150 grains, I started reloading on my brother’s press.
I loaded for it up until I joined the Army at 19.
After ETS I got into loading more. A fellow I worked with became a mentor, and I started buy stuff from Midway then.
While I was gone, The Old Man fell in love with that 788, so I bought myself an oughtsix, and loaded for those two and my brothers .25-06 too.
Over the years my battery expanded, as did hand loading as my nephews and Bug Hunter started hunting and shooting.
Now 40 some years later I load around 15 different rifle cartridges.
I originally thought I’d save money at it, but I know I spend a helluva lot more ( as two spouses have pointed out ).
But I love hearing stuff go bang and I find the process both fun and relaxing.
7mm

Shotshells in 1969
Metallic(22-250) in 1971

Started buying from Midway long before they moved to VanHorn Tavern Road.

Been too long. I can't remember exactly. perhaps 44-45 yrs or so. When I go my reloading room will probably be sold off. Someone is going to get a very good deal. The kid and his kids only use what I load for them. They don't have any interest in learning what I do. Pity that.

1967 I believe. Self taught after getting a 243 Lyman loading kit from my folks for Christmas. So easy a stupid teenager can do it. 😁
I made my own bench with 2x12s and 4x4s. I still use it.

Started in 1968 so 55 years.

Got a Lee Loader in .38/357 when I was 16 to shoot .38's out of a Ruger Blackhawk. First time I fired a reload I pushed the revolver out in front of me as far as I could and then turned my face away as far as possible so the shrapnel wouldn't blind me. When I squeezed the trigger it went bang instead of kaboom and a lifelong hobby was born.

Mideway used to have those newspaper type material catalogs. Thinking Nanchez did too.