Hi Mike just an occasional viewer (uk) here to say thank you for efforts, while having a wonder through the comments found the 7mm mauser guy it reminded me of the time I worked on computer help desk. Customer asks why can't I get x to work and it's the void of knowledge spoken by the question and the obvious lack of self awareness about their ignorance. Best answer is can't answer that and move on. Knowledge is often hard won from experience of trying things and haveing some things work and others not. Hope all goes well and stay safe!
Afternoon Mike 😀 . I also reload for probably 25 or so calibers most of which are milsurp calibers, the most common of which are probably x39, & x51 nato. The most obscure caliber that I load for is probably the 30-40 Krag & 6.5 Swede. I got started when I ran across an add-in one of the local classifieds here in my neck of the woods for a complete reloading set from a really nice senior citizen who was hoping to sell the entire setup to someone like me that was interested and wanted to get into the hobby so we discussed it and I picked it up for a few Ben Franklin's. I went through everything and decided what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to sell or trade for other components and accessories that I was interested in. It originally started with a single stage compound vintage Pacific press which worked awesome for what it is but then I picked up a single stage C&H Super "C" to go with it but recently swap them both out when I bought a new Lyman All American 8 turrent press. If you'd like to shoot the s*** sometime message me. facebook.com/jim.loosli
my second rifle was a k31 and it got me into reloading. now a dozen calibers later 7.35 carcano and 8x56r mannlicher are making me consider bullet swagging.
I was going to mention the K31 and the 7.35 Carcano also . I don’t reload , yet I keep all my brass , I save my money so when I buy ammo I will by at least 3 boxes for each rifle I have
NIce! you should give some updates if you decide to start swaging. I just looked into that myself but I couldn't find much for swaging bullets in the .314 diameter range.
In a way I guess I got lucky when I bought a complete reloading set from a veteran senior citizen as it came with a little of everything including a small cast iron lead smelting Pan and accessories with several hundred pounds of ingots and a Lyman Lubersizer that works great I just had to pick up a decent hair dryer from the thrift store to keep the Lubersizer nice and warm and the Bullet Lube flowing. You just have to figure out where the sweet spot is because you want to keep it warm but not too warm. If you can find a good deal on a nice used Lubersizer & dies I think about jumping on it and as far as dyes for them go there's a company here in Idaho that makes custom dies for damn near anything you want including what you're looking for. You can probably Google whatever size Luber Sizer die you're looking for and it'll pop right up in the search results
Hey mike i got my rhodie mag in the mail the other day, and i love it. It ran flawlessly, no issues and the bolt locked back on the last shot. It ran better then the 2 new mags i bought from the store
My two cents. Even if you never plan to reload ammunition you should get one of the better reloading manuals. It will give you a lot of good information about the various cartridges out there and their intended uses. If you do get into reloading even if the manual does not have information about the specific cartridge you are interested in it will still provide lots of good guidance about reloading in general that will be quite handy.
I am definitely going to start reloading (someday) especially in the freakin state (California). The only thing that is saving my ass right now is my C&R License and COE, I can still order ammo online and have it shipped directly to my house. Otherwise I would have to go through a gun shop that will charge me per transaction.
Your name suits your situation. It sucks for CA, as most of the people in rural areas are actual Americans, while people in the cities are Communist morons.
@@MikeB128 All of the Walmart's in my area of Texas no longer sell ammunition or firearms. I live within 75 miles of at least 10 Wal mart Super Centers.
2 points. I never trust any reloading data unless it matches from 2 or more sources. I have also had horrible luck reloading the 303. The chamber is generous to load filthy ammo and the lockup is rather springy. Case head seperation will happen in under 5 loads (unless you are shooting it in a strong P14 enfield).
My #4 has an generous chamber, tumbled brass looks fireformed when it comes out. Factory loads too. The headspace is on the high side of "in spec", but still in range. I just assumed all the chambers were cut big so they would always chamber. I get the best life out of neck sizing only, but it is still far cry from what get out of a 223.
I have gone to separating my 303 brass by S/N of the gun it was fired from and only neck sizing. The 303 has a generous go/no-go spec on chamber size. So basically you fire form the case to the rifle. If you set back the neck every time you reload you fire form the case again. Leading to premature head separation. Still don't get the brass life like I do with NM chambered 03 but that thing has a tight chamber and has had trouble chambering some commercial ammo. On the other hand my 03-a3 had a generous chamber that will swallow any thing. YMMV
I live in the Kansas City area . I use to buy it all the time at Bass Pro , they now have reduced the amount of different calibers the sell . I have gone out to Cabelas , but mostly buy from local gun shops , a few times online
Love that 7.62x54r brass disparity. Get ppu brass thats hard to find, cheap tho, but can only be reloaded 5x or get that easy to find norma brass thats expensive but can be reloaded 10x. Edit: to any active duty guys, use your deployment money to get into reloading. Thats what I did. Recouped my money very fast when I got out.
When I got my first one 13 years ago, you could get Graf brass $25 for 100, but they don't make that caliber anymore. I've reloaded it all at least ten times. Now it's finally starting to split, so I have to make that same decision. It would've lasted longer if I was neck sizing instead of full length. My m44 has quite a loose chamber compared to my m91.
You sound like you're afraid of reloading. I've been doing it for my Argentine since 1966 and I'm still here. It's not dangerous if you're careful. My philosophy: If I have the centerfire weapon, I reload for it. When ammo gets scarce, I don't slow down.
Are you joking? I said in the video I've been reloading for 10 years....I'm not afraid of it, I'm afraid of someone who is rushing in to collecting getting in to it, cutting corners, and hurting themselves......Good God......
Hey mike, some guy at a garage sale had some old 7mm mauser ammunition with the torpedo heads and the wrong magazine that was for an italian gun. You know anything about them?
Mike B - Queen of the North. His videos are always fabulous.
Don't hurt your arm patting your self on the back
Good advice.
Ah yes, the 8mm lebel a quite *T H I C C* cartridge
Used the quarantine time to reload all of my .45 LC. Almost free it's so cheap compared to commercial.
Congrats.
I remember the Ammo Scare after Sandy Hook. Only pistol caliber ammo on the shelves was 9mm Makarov.
Same happened when they elected Obama.
Hi Mike just an occasional viewer (uk) here to say thank you for efforts, while having a wonder through the comments found the 7mm mauser guy it reminded me of the time I worked on computer help desk. Customer asks why can't I get x to work and it's the void of knowledge spoken by the question and the obvious lack of self awareness about their ignorance. Best answer is can't answer that and move on. Knowledge is often hard won from experience of trying things and haveing some things work and others not. Hope all goes well and stay safe!
I might just reload 38 special just because I’ve been told it’s a super easy caliber to learn on then reload 303 British
All of the straight wall cartridges are easy to work with. As long as you follow good load data. 38 special is a nice readily available round.
Harbor freight has a nice little table I use holds all my reloading tools along with my press
That's how I started out. Now I have a medium sized steel table with wheels that works well to get pushed in front of the tv then back to its spot.
Afternoon Mike 😀 . I also reload for probably 25 or so calibers most of which are milsurp calibers, the most common of which are probably x39, & x51 nato. The most obscure caliber that I load for is probably the 30-40 Krag & 6.5 Swede. I got started when I ran across an add-in one of the local classifieds here in my neck of the woods for a complete reloading set from a really nice senior citizen who was hoping to sell the entire setup to someone like me that was interested and wanted to get into the hobby so we discussed it and I picked it up for a few Ben Franklin's. I went through everything and decided what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to sell or trade for other components and accessories that I was interested in. It originally started with a single stage compound vintage Pacific press which worked awesome for what it is but then I picked up a single stage C&H Super "C" to go with it but recently swap them both out when I bought a new Lyman All American 8 turrent press. If you'd like to shoot the s*** sometime message me. facebook.com/jim.loosli
Well if you live in California or are broke like me loading is a lot more intriguing
my second rifle was a k31 and it got me into reloading. now a dozen calibers later 7.35 carcano and 8x56r mannlicher are making me consider bullet swagging.
I was going to mention the K31 and the 7.35 Carcano also . I don’t reload , yet I keep all my brass , I save my money so when I buy ammo I will by at least 3 boxes for each rifle I have
NIce! you should give some updates if you decide to start swaging. I just looked into that myself but I couldn't find much for swaging bullets in the .314 diameter range.
In a way I guess I got lucky when I bought a complete reloading set from a veteran senior citizen as it came with a little of everything including a small cast iron lead smelting Pan and accessories with several hundred pounds of ingots and a Lyman Lubersizer that works great I just had to pick up a decent hair dryer from the thrift store to keep the Lubersizer nice and warm and the Bullet Lube flowing. You just have to figure out where the sweet spot is because you want to keep it warm but not too warm. If you can find a good deal on a nice used Lubersizer & dies I think about jumping on it and as far as dyes for them go there's a company here in Idaho that makes custom dies for damn near anything you want including what you're looking for. You can probably Google whatever size Luber Sizer die you're looking for and it'll pop right up in the search results
I roll my own for all my calibers. 9mm on a single stage gets old fast.
Hey mike i got my rhodie mag in the mail the other day, and i love it. It ran flawlessly, no issues and the bolt locked back on the last shot. It ran better then the 2 new mags i bought from the store
My two cents. Even if you never plan to reload ammunition you should get one of the better reloading manuals. It will give you a lot of good information about the various cartridges out there and their intended uses. If you do get into reloading even if the manual does not have information about the specific cartridge you are interested in it will still provide lots of good guidance about reloading in general that will be quite handy.
That's what I said in the video.
I am definitely going to start reloading (someday) especially in the freakin state (California). The only thing that is saving my ass right now is my C&R License and COE, I can still order ammo online and have it shipped directly to my house. Otherwise I would have to go through a gun shop that will charge me per transaction.
Your name suits your situation. It sucks for CA, as most of the people in rural areas are actual Americans, while people in the cities are Communist morons.
Every time I hear about ammo availability I remember a wonderful 1895 FN Mauser that I didn’t buy because 7mm Mauser isn’t available in Italy
Recently in the states all I could find was 8mm mauser everything else was sold out cause the covid shit.
I would love to see a relaxing video for 7mm French or 8mm mauser
I reload for my 30/40 Krag. Remington and Winchester still make runs of this caliber also
i already know this video is gonna be good
You know here in europe 8mm is dirt cheap its like 50cents(Euro) a round and its hunting grade
"Hunting Grade" lol.
@@MikeB128 with hunting grade i mean the good stuff for hunting
"Go to walmart" ya chief imma have to stop you right there
What the fuck are you talking about?
@@MikeB128 All of the Walmart's in my area of Texas no longer sell ammunition or firearms. I live within 75 miles of at least 10 Wal mart Super Centers.
2 points. I never trust any reloading data unless it matches from 2 or more sources. I have also had horrible luck reloading the 303. The chamber is generous to load filthy ammo and the lockup is rather springy. Case head seperation will happen in under 5 loads (unless you are shooting it in a strong P14 enfield).
That's why you tumble the brass before reloading.....I've never had an issue with any .303 and have been reloading it for years.
My #4 has an generous chamber, tumbled brass looks fireformed when it comes out. Factory loads too. The headspace is on the high side of "in spec", but still in range. I just assumed all the chambers were cut big so they would always chamber. I get the best life out of neck sizing only, but it is still far cry from what get out of a 223.
I have gone to separating my 303 brass by S/N of the gun it was fired from and only neck sizing. The 303 has a generous go/no-go spec on chamber size. So basically you fire form the case to the rifle. If you set back the neck every time you reload you fire form the case again. Leading to premature head separation. Still don't get the brass life like I do with NM chambered 03 but that thing has a tight chamber and has had trouble chambering some commercial ammo. On the other hand my 03-a3 had a generous chamber that will swallow any thing. YMMV
Is 8mm mauser very common in the US (midwest in particular?)
I live in the Kansas City area . I use to buy it all the time at Bass Pro , they now have reduced the amount of different calibers the sell . I have gone out to Cabelas , but mostly buy from local gun shops , a few times online
Love that 7.62x54r brass disparity. Get ppu brass thats hard to find, cheap tho, but can only be reloaded 5x or get that easy to find norma brass thats expensive but can be reloaded 10x.
Edit: to any active duty guys, use your deployment money to get into reloading. Thats what I did. Recouped my money very fast when I got out.
When I got my first one 13 years ago, you could get Graf brass $25 for 100, but they don't make that caliber anymore. I've reloaded it all at least ten times. Now it's finally starting to split, so I have to make that same decision. It would've lasted longer if I was neck sizing instead of full length. My m44 has quite a loose chamber compared to my m91.
Are range ninja episodes coming back?
No. I don't like catering to that sort of troll culture. I tried it, and don't like it. Sorry if that's the only reason you subbed.
No enjoy the videos it was just a fun series cuz we all deal with those goons! Fun to hear other people’s stories of them
You sound like you're afraid of reloading. I've been doing it for my Argentine since 1966 and I'm still here. It's not dangerous if you're careful. My philosophy: If I have the centerfire weapon, I reload for it. When ammo gets scarce, I don't slow down.
Are you joking? I said in the video I've been reloading for 10 years....I'm not afraid of it, I'm afraid of someone who is rushing in to collecting getting in to it, cutting corners, and hurting themselves......Good God......
Hey mike, some guy at a garage sale had some old 7mm mauser ammunition with the torpedo heads and the wrong magazine that was for an italian gun. You know anything about them?
I have no idea what you're talking about except for "7mm Mauser Ammunition"...
@@MikeB128 he stuck the cartriges into A magazine that went into an italian gun and not the correct mag
@@chrismidis9024 I still have no idea what you're talking about. I can't read your mind.
Why do I watch all the gun tubers when I dont even own a gun?