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Bullseye for the Lee Anniversary kit with dies for 38 special and 45 acp. I took it home and loaded one round after reading the manual several times. Went outside and fired that one round half expecting it to blow up or just not work.
about 30,000 rounds later, still going strong.
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First powder I ever bought was Dupont IMR 4350 in the Mid 70's. I got my first real job outside cutting lawns and shoveling snow at the Dunham's Sporting Goods store in West Bloomfield Michigan. This was back when that was the only Dunham's store in the country. They still sold Woolrich and Pendelton wool clothing, Danner Boots and German Weatherby rifles back then. That store was the place to go to buy really nice stuff, unlike the franchised Dunhams stores today. If they did not have it, they would order it for you. I was only 15 years old and loved to hunt shoot and fish and wanted to work in the gun/fishing/archery depts. The manager looks at me and says, "You're a little young. What do you know about these guns?" but he gives me an interview to humor me anyway. During the interview process, he asks a number of basic firearm and archery and fishing rod and reel questions which I navigated through without much trouble. Then he asks, "Who makes 30-30's?" I say "Winchester, Marlin and Savage." He says "Savage doesn't make a 30-30" and I reply, You're right. They make 2. The Model 170 pump and the 340 bolt action. He glances at the other guy in the room (who is smiling at this point) with a puzzled look while he pulls out the shooters bible from his desk and thumbs through it for a second and then he looks at me and says... "When can you start"? I loved that job. Saved up my money from that $2.25/hr part time job and bought my first center fire rifle. A special ordered Remington 700 BDL 270 Winchester in Left Hand for $234 out the door. Burned a lot of 4350 through it over the years and it is still a great shooter. :D
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W748 ,760 and 785...... I think for my 270 about 1978. I know I purchased a 4 lb can of Unique in 1980 at a company called Best Products on Gallows Rd near Fairfax,Va for 26.00 .Also picked up a Remington 788 in 22.250 for 169.00 same year
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I'll have to look back at my records but I know it was in 2002 for my 270
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IMR4064, because that was the recommended powder for 150 gr bullets in the instructions that came with my 30-06 Lee Loader. My first foray into reloading a over 30 years ago.
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In 1972 I bought a Lee Loader for the 44 Magnum. The gunsmith recommended IMR4227 as the dipper included with the kit showed a proper charge for it. Worked perfectly and I still use IMR4227 for some loads.
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Imr 4227 for 7.62x39 about 1991 , kinda wishing I had kept the empty can now
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My brother-in-law bought some Bullseye for his new Beretta M9 pistol and we learned to load together. I had a 357 magnum and bought 231 for cast bullets and H110 for jhp's. What a start!
Loaded some old DuPont 4350 for Dad's 30-06 and then bought more IMR 4350 and 4064 for loads with 150 and 180 grain Hornady SP's.
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My first powder purchase wasn't exactly like everyone else's. In 1964 I was into shooting a replica 1/2 scale Civil War field cannon and in those days large granulation cannon black powder just wasn't available. I bought a 50 pound bag of potassium nitrate and built a ball mill and made my own cannon powder. As far as powder for a rifle or handgun goes, my first purchase was a pound of Hercules 2400 for a S&W Model 19 .357 magnum revolver.
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1977. Jacksonville, Ar Kmart. 1 pound can of Win 231 for my new Ruger BH 357.
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First powder purchase was Accurate #5. First powder purchase to use with my own equipment was IMR 4320. Not the best choice for 7mm-08, but it was what was available in my area at that time.
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I believe for me It was IMR4198 in the early 70s to feed a savage in 222 rem. LOL. I rode my bike all around with the rifle slung on my shoulder a couple boxes of shells in my pocket Hunting wood chucks on Dads all the nieghbors farms. Cactus Farmer is right LOL. Niegbors would stop where you heade d today? Hope its my place the back 40s getting ate away by chucks, was the normal question request. Deputies would stop ask where I was going, have fun and be safe was about the extent of their questions. The best platfor was on a neighbors silo he had an elevator on the field side. Wow 40 ft up really gives a great view. Neighbors actually kept me in powder bullets primers and ammo.
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I think mine was a pound of Pyrodex RS, but I don't think I used any for shooting.
My first reloading powder was some H4198 to try to get some better accuracy out of my Chinese Type 56 SKS. I loaded up some surplus 145gr .308 tracers with it because they looked like they were real aerodynamic and tracers were cool (and dirt cheap compared to 123gr .310" Hornady bullets). I had no idea about twist rates or bullet stabilization, but those tracers did look cool corkscrewing their way to the target sideways.
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Last year. One pound of Titegroup for 40 S&W. IMR 4350, BL-C(2), CFE 223, IMR 4007 SSC, WST, and No. 7 have all followed.
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I was a Jr. in high school in 1985. A close family friend invited me to shoot trap with him at the club one Sunday morning. I broke 17/25 and I have been hooked ever since. IMR700X and a Texan single stage loader soon followed and a bagfull of Peter's Blue Magic cases. A few years later a lb. of IMR4831 for loading dad's 30-06 and 180gr. Hornady bullets for elk season. My first pistol powder was Bullseye for 45 auto loads. I'm 44 now and last time I counted, I have 14 different powders on the bench! This way of life is addicting!
ElkCountry
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W630 for my .41 magnum. Shot a LOT of it with Hornady 210 JHP and Lyman 410459. Sadly it was discontinued.....
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My dad bought it for me in 1979: IMR 4198 for my new 30-30. Still have the old can. Learned to load ammo from him and remember handing him bullets before I was big enough to pull the handle. My daughter has been "helping" me since she was 3. She now knows how to cast bullets, too!
John
oops... meant BOOLITS!
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A pound of 2F black powder to shoot in the original .69 calibre smoothbore musket that I bought in 1970. I bought it as a "wall hanger", but when I was introduced to the gent that ran our local black powder store out of a little shop in his back yard he said: "C'mon outside and we'll shoot it!" Well, it was all downhill from there ... 43 years and several hundreds of thousands of rounds later, shot out of a huge variety of guns, and I'm still shooting and can't get enough of it!
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473AA 12ga shotgun. LEE loader.
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green dot to feed the shotgun