Cornbread
07-09-2014, 11:37 PM
So for the last few weeks my oldest son (age 14) has been coming out to the shop with me in the evenings after work, and has been learning to reload. Then we take the reloads and go shoot shotgun shell hulls at 25 yards so he can practice holding the revolver steady and being a better shot.
We have been alternating between a 2.5" barreled Casull and a 6.5" barreled Casull. Rifle we have been shooting a Remington 700 in .308 and Winchester Model 70 in .308.
Tonight he did his first 25 ever all by himself (I was of course monitoring every step). He did well I think. Here were his first 25 before we shot them :) They are 255gr RN FP, .452 hard cast over a load of 29.4gr of IMR-4227, traveling around 1400fps.
They seem to be really accurate and aren't hand busters like some of my H110 loads so they are a good all around deer and elk hunting round and general plinker.
He is the exact same age I was when I started reloading only he has a heck of a lot more supervision than I ever did(my Dad was more of a "here is a book and a .357, knock yourself out" kind of guy).
I figured I would share. Here are pics.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/AndyTheCornbread/IMG_6052_zps319c5ee0.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/AndyTheCornbread/IMG_6048_zps1c40b264.jpg
We have been alternating between a 2.5" barreled Casull and a 6.5" barreled Casull. Rifle we have been shooting a Remington 700 in .308 and Winchester Model 70 in .308.
Tonight he did his first 25 ever all by himself (I was of course monitoring every step). He did well I think. Here were his first 25 before we shot them :) They are 255gr RN FP, .452 hard cast over a load of 29.4gr of IMR-4227, traveling around 1400fps.
They seem to be really accurate and aren't hand busters like some of my H110 loads so they are a good all around deer and elk hunting round and general plinker.
He is the exact same age I was when I started reloading only he has a heck of a lot more supervision than I ever did(my Dad was more of a "here is a book and a .357, knock yourself out" kind of guy).
I figured I would share. Here are pics.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/AndyTheCornbread/IMG_6052_zps319c5ee0.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/AndyTheCornbread/IMG_6048_zps1c40b264.jpg