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I guess that's 9 mm for me....
I'm just trying it now.
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I want to give the 5.7x28 a go.
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9MM. I've tried .380, and they were hard to handle or I just lack dexterity.
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I used to think people were stupid when they asked me to reload 22lr. Now I wish I knew how.
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The Hornet and the 32 H&R are the smallest I do long and short.
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What defines little for you, bore diameter or case capacity?
The smallest bore diameter I've loaded for is .172". The lightest charges I've thrown were about 1.2 grains.
Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.
Here be dragons ...
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.22 Hornet is the smallest I load at this time.
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A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Smallest I have loaded: rifle would be be 22 Hornet/218 Bee, handgun would be 38 spl. I don't think I'd want to fiddle with 9mm or smaller handgun rounds.
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if it has a primer I load it....
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Used to load for a 17 hornet. Now my smallest is a 17 tactical
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Hm. I'd load most anything I had the components for. Why not? I have a passion for it. I love reduced loads, and I'm just beginning to develop loads that mimic 22rf or 22mag in Hornet, Bee, and 223 cases. A 17 Mach IV is on the way, and I'll load that to two power levels: varminter (step on gas), and plinker/small game getter(HMR equivalent, but with less frangible bullets). In handgun cals, I'd likely not load below a 380 auto, and even that is just because I have picked up many hundreds of brass where I shoot. My lady can somewhat comfortably shoot a 9, but she may end up with a 380 some day. I like 38's, and I like 9mm. Don't think I'd ever bother shooting anything with power level below 380.
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I have loaded some very small rounds a time or two.....just because I could. The smallest was probably the .25 ACP.....a real pain to load. I helped a friend load a wildcat .14 Caliber round based on the Hornet case.
I regularly load the .22 Hornet and .25-20. Both are a pain, but I load them because I wanted a small varmit/small game round that was reloadable as opposed to the .22 LR.
I hate change, it's never for the better.... Grumpy Old Men
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I guess the 9 mm is the smallest size round I load and with a Dillion 550 I load a bunch. The smallest caliber round I load for is the wonderful Hornet.
If a set of dies were to fall in my lap I would load the .32 auto for my little Beretta Tomcat. I save all the brass but too cheap to buy even Lee dies. Perhaps Santa will take notice..
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We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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218 Mashburn bee is the smallest I've loaded, 221 fireball is the smallest of what I currently load. The small 22's can be a little bit of a challenge, can imagine loading for the 14's would definitely be a challenge. ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Tiggerr/Cartridges/d636da72.jpg)
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