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I don’t DIY my own ammo, but I know that a lot of you do. Like any other type of minuscule tasks the agronomy of this can make or break your ability to do it, as well as the enjoyment involved.
I found this great video on Anthroblogogy. Dirtcrashr, the auther of anthroblogogy makes his own cases, and has run into all kinds of difficulties that he expands on in this post. He recons that this video fixes them all. So if you are into making your own ammo - hop over and read.
Are people really doing their ammo themselves? I always thought this is folklore.
Can’t think of something more dangerous than this - the explosion is only a matter of time.
If you know what you are doing the chance of an accident is slim. Just like in bungy jumping.
I started reloading buetrs at the age of like 13 for my grandpa who was busy ceaning guns we often love to talk about guns. He always ask me before making a purchace casue he knows I do research and ask around aka do my home work as I have been burned before. Ie a Savage 411 sporter the worst gun I ever bought and the most money I ever spent 480 dollars on a used gun. Anyways Reloading can be a source to relax or to vent, I enjoy it and the money that is saved can be spent on the range but the intail investment often hurts, well in the case of a good progressive press like a mec for shotguns or dillion for everything else.
Thanks for the link! :-) Admin, it’s not dangerous if you carefully follow the same procedures used by the factories, and that are outlined in all the different reloading-manuals. In fact a basic suggestion is to employ more than one reloading manual for guidance, and never exceed any one’s maximum levels - which will still be withing SAMMI specifications (the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute who publish the scientific guidelines).
People have been doing this since gunpowder was invented, but it’s a lot safer now with modern smokeless powders. Old-fashioned black-powder is more dangerous as an explosive, but "smokeless" powders have concerns too and you have to pay strict attention to weights and measures, burn-rates and pressures. There is a huge science built around it including the development of trigonometry which came about from the need to plot artillery shell trajectories and firing ranges.
Each individual rifle is different, the barrels vibrate to different pitches - and a load can be fine-tuned and developed for the barrel-harmonics of an individual gun that delivers much greater than factory ammunition which merely strives to safely please a broad spectrum, but cannot be as accurate individually. We don’t go beyond safety either, and best accuracy at a given distance can oftentimes be achieved through a <i>reduction</i> in overall projectile speed.