gun dreams

[Mortblanc]

Which "hand loader" are you using?

Most of them leave a lot to be desired in the leverage department and the Lee "hammer tool" is extremely slow and makes me very nervous on that last stage of hammering the slug into a primed and charged case.

The old Lyman squeeze tools did not even offer full length resizing, they just squeezed the neck down enough to hold the bullet.

After all these years of reloading I have accumulated several extra expanding, seating and crimping dies after wearing out the old hardened steel resizing dies in several calibers. I am very thankful for the development of carbide resizing dies! The resizing/decapping die will work for either magnum or spl and one can set up and mark the dedicated magnum dies.

I load so few real .357 magnum cases that I just set up the single stage press to do them. .38spl I do on the automatic press and I have a turret plate dedicated to them.

.44 magnum is just the opposite and I have the turret set up for the magnums since I see few 44 spl cases.