Alan in Vermont
01-17-2012, 09:13 PM
A younger buddy of mine bought is GF a Charter "Pink Lady" 5-shot 38 for Christmas. He commented on the ammo cost, the gun shop sold him 110 gr. J-word ammo with it. That might be OK but I suspect it has a faily sharp snap out that 2" tube, not to mention the cost. I convinced him that he needed to learn reloading so she(they) could shoot more.
Another buddy donated a box of 142 gr. Lyman wadcutters to the project and I had a bucket of 38 brass and part of a can of Bullseye and most of a brick of primers.
I set up the RCBS lubrasizer and ran most of the WCs through, leaving Jeff a few to do himself, might as well give him the full experience.
Once the boolits were done we moved to my Ponsness-Warren P-200 and ran ammo until we ran out of boolits. 293 rounds out the door.
He has an annular pig roast at his house. At the last one there was some informal shooting done. Some of it was by folks who had never shot but were curious to do so. There were no good training guns there but even at that several people went away with a more positive outlook on the shooting sports. This year I plan to take a couple of my guns and borrow one or two and spend my time coaching. I'm thinking an 870 20 ga. Youth Model, my Single-Six, a K-22 Smith and my wife's BL-22 for rimfires and my DA only Security-Six (with 38 loads) and my .41 Blackhawk with rock-n-roll loads for the obnoxious 20 something who felt he had to teach me shoot last year. :) If I can borrow a short .44 I might take that instead of the .41. I think it might be fun to see if I can build that ******* a flinch in 5 rounds or less.
Another buddy donated a box of 142 gr. Lyman wadcutters to the project and I had a bucket of 38 brass and part of a can of Bullseye and most of a brick of primers.
I set up the RCBS lubrasizer and ran most of the WCs through, leaving Jeff a few to do himself, might as well give him the full experience.
Once the boolits were done we moved to my Ponsness-Warren P-200 and ran ammo until we ran out of boolits. 293 rounds out the door.
He has an annular pig roast at his house. At the last one there was some informal shooting done. Some of it was by folks who had never shot but were curious to do so. There were no good training guns there but even at that several people went away with a more positive outlook on the shooting sports. This year I plan to take a couple of my guns and borrow one or two and spend my time coaching. I'm thinking an 870 20 ga. Youth Model, my Single-Six, a K-22 Smith and my wife's BL-22 for rimfires and my DA only Security-Six (with 38 loads) and my .41 Blackhawk with rock-n-roll loads for the obnoxious 20 something who felt he had to teach me shoot last year. :) If I can borrow a short .44 I might take that instead of the .41. I think it might be fun to see if I can build that ******* a flinch in 5 rounds or less.