Mr. Green wrote:yup its a dillion 550b with some extra bells and whistles.
Sasquatch wrote:Once the scale has warmed up and been properly calibrated, I enter the desired charge weight and it goes all by itself!
You kids have it way too easy. My dad taught me to reload when I was 8 years old and back then it was just single-stage presses and manual beam scales. My dad made our powder funnel out of a pipe part (as in the smoking kind), some cardboard from a TV dinner box and masking tape. The primer pocket cleaner was just an old frayed pipe cleaner. If the brass looked really-really dirty, I'd toss them in a Folgers can with some sand from my old sandbox, shake them around, then hose them off and let them dry in the sun. Calipers? I'd heard of them but dad just eyeballed things. We didn't cast our own boolits, but we did have to walk uphill through snow to the hardware store to buy them, then uphill through snow on the way home.
But it wasn't all bad: you could buy boolits, powder, primers, ammo and even GUNS at the local hardware store. Ride your Schwinn Stingray up to Emil's store, pay cash, walk out, no paperwork, background checks or any of the crap you kids and the rest of us have to deal with today!
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