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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?
I am MAGA.
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When I die I hope I don't start voting democrat.
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Society of Intolerant Old Men. Rifle Slut Division
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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.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Tolkien
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~38 years. Started with RCBS equipment. Hornady manual was my 1st book.
GOA
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This. Pards dad had his bench set up in the kitchen of their 10x50sh trailer house.
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Did some reloading back in 19 & 81/82 with who I thought would eventually be my FIL. haven't touched any reloading equipment since.
FJB & FJT
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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. That’s what I did as well
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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.
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In my early 40's.
Self taught. Started with .38 wadcutters and HP38.
Don't reload nearly as much as I'd like.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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Shotshells-51 years Metallic-45 years
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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.
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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.
Your mind is your primary weapon. Never let it get rusty.
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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
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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Shotshells in 1969 Metallic(22-250) in 1971
Started buying from Midway long before they moved to VanHorn Tavern Road.
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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.
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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.
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NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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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.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Mideway used to have those newspaper type material catalogs. Thinking Nanchez did too.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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