A trip back in time.

[Winelover]

Never had a desire to own a progressive. Enjoy the whole reloading process too much. I still do my brass prep and all pistol calibers on my RCBS JR, the first press I ever owned. Recently, picked up a Hollywood Senior Turret, from my BIL. His father was the original owner. I have it set up for seating and or expanding the rifle calibers I load.

 

[Brad]

How can I take you seriously when you have an old CRT television, with built in VCR, in the background?

Oh, your bench is too neat too. Mine isn't, at least not when I can see the bench under the stuff.

 

[Rick]

Well Brad, the title to this thread is "A trip back in time" is it not?

 

[Brad]

This is more like "Fantasy Island"?

 

[Winelover]

How can I take you seriously when you have an old CRT television, with built in VCR, in the background?

Oh, your bench is too neat too. Mine isn't, at least not when I can see the bench under the stuff.

When we moved from Michigan, that's the only TV we brought with us. Kept it for the built in VCR. Haven't turned it on , we've been here 2 1/2 years. Have several "how to" videos for reference.

You haven't seen the other 2/3 of the bench. I moved some things around for the pictures this AM.

 

[Rick]

Brad also hasn't seen that 15 feet behind the press is a door and 5 feet beyond that door is your shooting bench and 100 yard range.

 

[Brad]

Ok Rick, no rubbing it in.
My wife saw the photo and instantly noticed the cleanliness.

 

[Winelover]

BTW--there are two Hollywood shot measures, another powder measure and a full set of12 guage Hollywood dies that came with the Senior Turret. I haven't gotten around to loading shotshells. Hardly ever shoot them.

 

[Brad]

Thinkng on this, I can shoot right out my back door. I even have the added advantage that the police will go down range and get my target for me, as evidence.

 

[freebullet]

Sarpy County don't really mess around they might shoot ya.

 

[JWFilips]

Ben in the early 60's I was a kid ( ten at 1963). I "absorbed" everything I read. I memorized Barnes' The Modern Hunting Rifle to the point I could recite each calibers merits & downfalls word for word, to the apparent distress of my parents by age 11. "In my mind" I learned handloading with those old tools long before I was capable of owing a centerfire firearm. The photos you show bring back those days to me ( even though I never used them back then ) those were the tools I was learning on ( in my mind)...if you understand my meaning!!!

 

[smokeywolf]

That's beautiful Winelover. I'm a Hollywood Gun Shop fan. Someday hope to add a Hollywood turret to my circa 1950ish single stage. Also am on the lookout for another Hollywood powder measure.

smokeywolf

 

[Cherokee]

Back in the late 50's I started reloading for my "new" 1917 Enfield using the 310 tool set - still have it. I progressed to a used CH C press for a few years, gave that to my BIL for him to learn on and got an RCBS Jr, that I still use. I went "prgressive" in the late 70's with a CH 4-station to augment my RCBS. 10 years ago my BIL & wife gave me a Dillion 650 fully decked out whch I use to turn out lots of pistol ammo, and lately bought a used Dillon 550B to....well because. I still use the RCBS and CH for small batches of rifle and pistol ammo. It's been a fun trip. I learned the hard wasy, reading, trying, reading again, trying again. I had no one to help me except the gun shop guys, who really knew more then than now. And here I am, still learnig new things about reloading every day. Now days, the new folks want everything instantly. Bullet casting is another story for another time.

 

[Charles Graff]

I started bullet casting with single cavity Lyman molds. Me and my buddy Dick used a gasoline . fired plumbers furnace and sat out under my carport sipping lemonade laced with rum. My folks never broke the code on our casting sessions. I was raised on the border and Bacardi rum was cheap in Mexico and we put it under the car seat when we returned to Texas and never declared the hooch. We were to young to pay the tax anyway.

 

[Brad]

I learned to cast at the kitchen stove of my future father in law. His daughter and I weren't dating at the time, we knew him thru Boy Scouts and he loaned my farher and I muzzleloaders for deer season.
Little did he know I was gonna be the son he never wanted!

 

[Ben]

Ben in the early 60's I was a kid ( ten at 1963). I "absorbed" everything I read. I memorized Barnes' The Modern Hunting Rifle to the point I could recite each calibers merits & downfalls word for word, to the apparent distress of my parents by age 11. "In my mind" I learned handloading with those old tools long before I was capable of owing a centerfire firearm. The photos you show bring back those days to me ( even though I never used them back then ) those were the tools I was learning on ( in my mind)...if you understand my meaning!!!

Jim,

I started out with a George L. Herter's C press. I can remember sitting and " window shopping " with their big thick catalog. If you enjoyed reloading, shooting , etc., a Herter's catalog was a must have.

For me to get started reloading, it was their brass, their primers, their shell holders ( at that time only a Herter's Shell holder would fit a Herter's press ) their powder. I remember working odd jobs, cutting grass, painting, etc to get enough money to make the order. The postman brought everything to my door.

Now I'm telling my age, right ? In a sense, those were simpler days. Whether or not they were indeed " The Good Old Days " is for everyone else to decide ?

I know I'd like to have some more of that $3.80 per lb. Herter's powder now, like a 1/2 ton at that price.

Ben

 

[Cherokee]

I remember the Herter's catalogs, day dreaming times. The first cast bullets I loaded (H&G 73's) came from Green Bay Bullets, then I acquired a Lyman 358495, their small pot and a hot plate. The lead was linotype/pure 50/50. I bought a old used Lyman sizer (still have it) from a LGS. I don't remember how good the bullets were but they shot fine. After the Army, I bought some SWC's from Hodgdon's store down the street from me. Then I bought more molds...and it continues unto today. Never had anyone help me, teach me, or whatever; just read, do , read some more, do again, etc. I was the only gun guy in the family until I got maried in 63 and got my BIL into shooting and reloading. What I have learned from the CB forum in the last few years is vast, and I still don't know much, but I am having fun.

 

[Ben]

Cherokee :

POSITION 1

The man that thinks he knows it all really doesn't know a lot . He will spend his time trying to impress you with what he " thinks " he knows. He isn't going to learn much anywhere he goes because he already knows most everything.

POSITION 2

The man that is anxious to learn more and is well aware he doesn't know everything is in a great position to learn .

I'm in the # 2 position. The more I learn, the less that I realize I really know and fully understand.

I can fully relate to your statement :

I have learned from the CB forum in the last few years is vast, and I still don't know much, but I am having fun.

Ben

 

[Brad]

Yes, the more you learn the more you realize there is much you don't know.

Asking questions is a sign of intelligence, not ignorance.

 

[Ben]

I was a teacher for many years before becoming a school principal for 14 years.

I always told my students.......

" It is important to ask questions about things we don't understand, that is how we learn."