A Poor Man's Progressive

Ben

Ben

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Keeping my grandson Trevor in ammo has become an ongoing challenge.
He loves to shoot and will often times shoot 250 - 300 rounds when we go
to the range.
I have a Lee Classic Cast Turret press with auto index.
I neck size his 30-30's and seat fresh primers in 50 round lots.
Next, I flare the case mouths, throw the powder charges, seat the cast bullet and put on a very mild crimp with the Lee Classic Turret press.
I thought that you might like to see how I do it.

Ben

 
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Ben

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I now have some slight idea of how a " one armed man " does things.
I was trying to hold the camera in one hand and use the other to load the ammo. Tricky at best.............
 
Ben

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Trevor enjoys the ammo loaded using this system:


40 rounds fired by Trevor at a range of 50 yards with the Rem. 788 and the plain base 30-30 loads .
He won't compete at Camp Perry with this type of shooting, but he can build some solid marksmanship skills :

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Pistolero

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Ben,
You need to think hard about a Square Deal in his most-used caliber.:)

Square Deal B reloader (Dillon SDB): Reloading: Reloading Machines

Square Deal B reloader (Dillon SDB): Reloading: Reloading Machines
www.dillonprecision.com www.dillonprecision.com

With a Square Deal, once you set it up and check him out, he can be turning out ammo by the pile
very soon. Put in a case, put in a bullet, pull the handle. Put in a case, put in a bullet, pull the handle.
Easily learned by someone who can keep their focus on what they are doing. You will know if
he has the focus needed for this.

Bill
 
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Try keeping up with 3.5 Trevors, you'll then see why I run an lnl ap with case feed. This po boy found an attractive deal on the entire used setup to compensate. Wouldn't mind having a second one.
 
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Ben

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Pistolero said:
Ben,
You need to think hard about a Square Deal in his most-used caliber.:)

Square Deal B reloader (Dillon SDB): Reloading: Reloading Machines

Square Deal B reloader (Dillon SDB): Reloading: Reloading Machines
www.dillonprecision.com www.dillonprecision.com

With a Square Deal, once you set it up and check him out, he can be turning out ammo by the pile
very soon. Put in a case, put in a bullet, pull the handle. Put in a case, put in a bullet, pull the handle.
Easily learned by someone who can keep their focus on what they are doing. You will know if
he has the focus needed for this.

Bill
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Bill,

I've thought about something like that.
I think for now with this 10 yr. old, we're going to focus on learning to walk real well before we consider running. He likes the Lee " Nut Cracker " system.

https://www.artfulbullet.com/index.php?threads/reloading-kit-for-my-grandson.5048/

Slow, but he is beginning to understand what each die does ( something that I think is very important for him to know ). Down the road, a Sq. Deal could very well be in his future.

Thanks,
Ben
 
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Pistolero

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Excellent point, Ben.
And it is really the correct thing. I learned on a Lyman 310, loaded for my 7x57 Mauser for years with
it before even getting a Rock Chucker from my lovely bride for Christmas about 45 years ago.

Understanding is very important, and it is easy for us, so far away to for get that he is a
10 year old. I wish I had been able to be exposed to guns and shooting and reloading like
he is when I was his age.
 
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Ben

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My Dad allowed me to shoot my Winchester Model 74, 22 LR auto a little when I was Trevor's age. I didn't get much training. He died when I was 16.

Ben
 
Pistolero

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My brother and I got our own .22 rifles at age 13, but we lived in suburbia then, so going out to shoot was
a somewhat rare thing. By 9th grade, I had a friend who's grandmother lived in the country, and we would
go and spend a weekend with his grandparents and could go and hunt squirrels nearby. My father was a
naval aviator and was gone a lot at sea, so I read a lot and taught myself a lot about shooting and hunting.
When we got to the 10th grade, we moved to rural Fla, could shoot on the 10 acres we lived on and I had
a 26 year old neighbor, a college student (ex Army) who was studying engineering, and had many interesting
guns and did reloading with a Lee Loader. And my father was around because he was getting his last two
years of college, courtesy of the USN. That was when I really learned about guns and started reloading.

But at 10 - those things were far away in time and space. I'm sorry to hear about you losing your father so young.
That must be incredibly difficult, I can't really imagine it, although my father was gone for 6 to 10 months at a time
on sea duty, so we had to get along without him for long periods.

Bill
 
Spindrift

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When introducing kids to the shooting sports, I think it is a good idea to focus on the «fun» part, and not so much on the chores of reloading heaps of ammo. You have to consider what the competition is offering:

- range open 24/7
- unlimited selection of guns, some that never even excisted in the real world
- total immunity to weather conditions
- almost no cost
- need more ammo? Click right mouse-button

Growing up in the age of computers is, in some ways, fundamentally different from what it used to be. I think you have the perfect approach, Ben.
 
Ben

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There are better reloading presses.
But for $100 , it is a good buy in my opinion.

Ben
 
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