Feeling a little nostalgic today...

[jrmartin1964]

My first set of reloading tools, in the "original" box! This is what I loaded my first cartridges (.44 Special) with, somewhere around 40 years ago...
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Just add a Hollywood powder measure, a Redding scale (no magnetic dampening on that one, had to wait for the beam to quit teetering and tottering!), a single-cavity Ideal 429421 (with pins for Hollow Point and Solid Point), a dog-eared Lyman 41st edition (it was already 20 years old when I got it!), and a square canister of Bullseye. Ah, simpler days!

[Hickory]

Don't get too nostalgic, you might loose sight of the future.

[sparky45]

They were a fairly good 6 cent cigar if my memory serves me well.

[Pressman]

Jrmartin, are those handles steel? Nice set.
Like you I have all my original reloading tools. 310 set for .44 Mag, I had a Super Blackhawk back then (1967). Lee dippers, Lyman/Ohaus scale. It's all still here in their original boxes. Later upgraded to a 55 powder measure and Tru-Line Jr press with 6mm Rem and .222 dies.
Those were good days back then.
Thanks for sharing,
Ken

[jrmartin1964]

Pressman, yes those are nickel plated steel handles, marked ".44 S.&W. R." and "Ideal Mfg. Co., New Haven, Conn., U.S.A." - so obviously they were originally part of a set for .44 Russian, while the double adjustable die is numbered "150" - correct for .44 Special. Somewhere along the way, the sizing hole in the handles was filled in by brazing - I was told that they had cracked many years before I came along - hence the yellowish coloration.

Jim

[runfiverun]

good post.
yesterday I was digging through some stuff looking for a heating element to make a small kiln with and found my old pan lube kit from LEE.
it had everything in it but the alox bottle.
lube-sizing 50 boolits was an all evening affair with it.

[Glassman66]

Now I wonder if in 40 years people will be posting pics of their Dillon saying "this is how we used to have to do it"! LOL!





Randy