You all know by now that not only do I enjoy reloading, but I also advocate it highly to others. Here is today's story about the latter.
There's a young fellow in his early 20's, a Jewish fellow, who due to running into some anti-Semitic, possibly violent, people a couple of years ago, started exercising his 2A rights. He does wear the yamulke. He'd been asking me about reloading for some months now, and he recently bought one of my long-distance rifles in .308 Winchester (a Remington 700) and is loving it. He fully intends to shoot it at 1,000 yards and is planning to take the BangSteel 1,000 yard course once the temperature warms up.
Problem: .308 Win match ammo is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E.
So, as part of the rifle purchase, he also bought my little Lee Reloader Press. Gave him a good price on it, too. He has already ordered the Lee Ultimate Die set, which has both sizer dies (full-length and Collet neck-sizing), bullet seater, and Factory Crimp Die. For match bullets that have cannelures, the Factory Crimp Die will do pretty well for him. He is now ordering the various reloading components. That particular rifle seems to like the Hornady 178gr Match BTHP bullets and A-MAX bullets, and he's been made aware of this.
Since we work at a gun range, once-fired .308 Win brass is available to us. All he's gotta do is go through the brass buckets before or after work, because people do bring in their M1A's and LR-308's to shoot. They usually buy our ammo, which means he'll end up with largely same brand, same lot brass. Good stuff for him.
A new reloader, one of my staff members at the range
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