Reloading kit ( Portable )

Ben

Ben

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Trevor ( my grandson ) will be 12 yrs. old in about a month.
He will get this as a gift on his birthday.
He will only get to use this under CLOSE SUPERVISION.

The dies are the " Breech Lock - quick change " dies.
Real easy to change from one die to another with no chance of
his dies getting out of adjustment.

Ben

 
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CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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♥♥♥ Pawpaw!!♥♥♥

Im sure he will love this.

I was taught reloading from MY Grandpa at his kitchen table before Grandma came home. That was about 1975/76. VERY Fond memories that I keep in that special place. (We all have)

CW
 
Todd M

Todd M

Craftsman of metals...always learning.
I would have been overjoyed to have received a kid like that from my grandpa. He gave me tools from time to time, and I cherish them along with the 22/410 Savage I inherited from him.
 
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STIHL

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I'd have loved it. Hope I'm able to pass it on.
I had the itch at 13-14-15, but no one to tesch me. And life before the internet. At 27-28 I started and have learned so much in the last few years.
 
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fiver

fiver

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at 12 I had already been casting for almost 4 years.
I don't remember shooting too many of them, I was always shooting shotguns.
never really did a whole lot of reloading on my own until I was in high school though.
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Trying to get my boy, 27 into it. I need someone to take all this stuff when I'm gone. My first Grandson is 3 now so he may learn a few things in the next ten years.
 
Ian

Ian

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Geeze....my oldest child is three. Loooong way to go! Would have loved a mentor and a gift like that, but like they say when the student is ready, the teacher arrives, and they did shortly after.

I had the interest but no one to show me. I was 14 before I got my own stuff and learned reloading from wearing out the brand-new Speer #11 that came with my RCBS kit.
 
Spindrift

Spindrift

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Wonderful gift, Ben!
I’m a great fan of the Lee nut-cracker. In fact, I do most of my sizing with such a press and collet neck die- despite having several other presses at my disposal. I have the dies installed in a breech lock «lock ring eliminator», which is a set-and-forget system. Press setup takes 5 seconds, and everything is excactly like it was the last time.
 
BBerguson

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Very nice Ben, lucky kid! I had my first reloading kit when I was 12, great age to get started.
 
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BBerguson

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Charles Graff said:
Portable is good. Being able to reload on the run is very good. This is for 45 Colt, but I have the same set up for all handgun and rifles calibers I reload on a regular basis. View attachment 19323
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Wish I had portable stuff now that my shooting bench is 10 miles from my house. It used to be 75 yards away but, things change... Actually, I can go to the wood shop to test pistol loads, well, shotgun loads too. I have to shoot into a bucket of scrape lead but it works. I do that when working up loads for automatics to make they are strong enough to cycle the action. Going to try that shortly with some International.
 
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creosote

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I think it's a great gift.
Kind of like a single shot as your first gun.
That kit has everything that's needed. Unlike the wakamole, he can add to it, or use the dies when he wants to upgrade.
He's a very lucky kid to have a mentor half as good as you.
My parents had no place for guns.
I learned from reading rcbs #10. It too is very well used.
 
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