Brown truck of happiness (reloading)

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Brown truck of happiness (reloading)

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I have always wanted one of these for shotshell ever since my first roll your own experience as a (barely) teenager.
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I have a couple for metallic cartridges but Lee quit making them for shotshells. This go for silly prices on auction sites but finally scored one for a price I could tolerate over the holidays. This is one of the earliest before they started using newer style packaging and chroming the tools.

I've been playing with some slug and roundball loads on my MEC 650 and an old roll crimper I picked up.
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Slug loading doesn't flow so naturally on a progressive but it works fine. Still, I am looking forward to trying some slug load work ups using this old tool and a roll crimper. A bit of nostalgia for misspent youth experimenting with a Lee Loader is just icing on top.
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Like I don't already have more on my plate than I can say grace over, you're trying to get me into shotshell reloading too???

Thanks a whole pantsload! :lol:
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Find a dipper load that works, and you can load anywhere. T hose whack-it reloaders are wonderful for loading near a campfire.
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Yep and great for introducing kids to how ammo functions and reloading. My first experience involved a backyard campfire, a slug mold made from a couple pieces of hardwood c-clamped together and bored out with a brace n bit we found that just fit into my buddy's Savage 20 gauge muzzle. Those slugs were things of beauty to a 13 year old wearing tortoise Buddy Holly glasses. Embedded woodchips and all. :lol:
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I still remember (vividly) the day my mom came home from work early, and caught me melting wheelweights in a cast iron pot on the kitchen stove, preparatory to casting some .41 Mag bullets. Yeah. That was fun.

Wasn't the last time I did it, but it WAS the last time I got caught.
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My first exposure to reloading was in 1969 at a Scout-0-Rama. An Explorer Post had a booth and one of the things they were doing was reloading (or loading) shotshells. Different times.
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Speaking of Scouts...

Mike,
Lemon Grove club still involved with them?
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First Shirt wrote:I still remember (vividly) the day my mom came home from work early, and caught me melting wheelweights in a cast iron pot on the kitchen stove, preparatory to casting some .41 Mag bullets. Yeah. That was fun.

Wasn't the last time I did it, but it WAS the last time I got caught.
Hope you didn't use a pot she cooked food in.
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Dad was clearing out his back room and one of the things he had was a Mec Sizemaster 12-ga loader. Since I'm a shotgun shooter it got given to me. At the time I had no interest in loading shotshell so it got relegated to the pile of stuff in my den that got moved around and never touched.
Well, I got the bug to shoot slugs at inanimate objects and someone gave me a Lee 1-oz slug mold for my birthday.
Decided to see how much work getting the old MEC running again would take. Had to replace a few small bits that had gotten lost which were cheap and easy to find. Now I'm loading shotshells.
I've discovered that 1-oz of #8 shot with a pink Claybusters WAA12SL equiv. wad and 18gr of Promo pushed into Remington hulls makes a nice shooting load.
Substituting a Lee 1-oz slug and a Winchester WAA12L silver wad makes a great slug load.
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