Home loads (and components)

[everygoodnamewastaken]

My dad and i use to load home loads with pre used winchester AA and GB cases  and they are the best catriges we have used (very hard hittting,  just what i need) and youget the added satisfaction of seeing a bird falll with something you made!Any one out there feel the same? oh yeah does any one know where i could buy winchester mark 3 wads?

[Cranfield]

Hi egnwt, Nice Name !!!

 

Many, many years ago a friend and I bought a homeloading outfit, toured the clay shooting grounds collecting the one piece cases and spent the occassional evening loading our own cartridges.

 

I think we saved money, but it was hard work for the rewards.

We sold the machine and all our raw materials after about a year.

I buy my cartridges "ready made", the price is not too bad and the quality is generally good.

 

I also trout fish and have friends that tie their own flies.

I buy my flies from the fishing tackle shop, but I can imagine it must be quite a thrill catching a trout on a fly you have hand made.

I suppose the same applies to loading your own cartridges.

[everygoodnamewastaken]

Thanks for replying, i think it works out cheaper to buy the "Ready made" cartriges and loading its quite time consuming but i still think they are better than bought ones. We tryed a couple of boxes of eley high fliers but were not impressed but we cannot get the wads we need to load so we are stuck with them

[Cranfield]

egnwt, another thing I forgot to mention, I was never very happy about storing the raw materials in my house.

I know that cartridges are "explosives", but they do need a bit of help to go "BANG".

 

Gunpowder is a bit more volatile.

We use to buy quite a bit at a time, to get the best price.

I forgot to mention it to the Insurance Company that insured my house.I don,t think they would have been very happy.    

 

I have never tried the Eley High Flyers, so I can,t really comment on them.

Try another brand, I use mainly Gamebore and Express.When I miss its usually my fault, not the cartridges.

[everygoodnamewastaken]

Does anyone know where i could get a shooters diary? i have looked every where! My dad said you used to get them years ago but no luck .....Please help

[Deako]

Eley used to do them....

[everygoodnamewastaken]

Yeah eley did do them i have one from 1987 :grumpy:

[Cranfield]

Try your local Gun Shop.

Its a bit late in the year to get a "real" Diary.

If you mean a "Journal", there should be those about.

[chewy]

Home loads tried it

 

for what you save its not worth the hassle

 

home load  £70 per thousand

 

you can buy shells for £75-80 per thousand

 

Chewy

[dead-eye-dick]

Ive had people scrabbling around my feet looking for cartriges,

 

Its fine 'home loading' if you have nothing better to do -

but i'd rather be shooting thanks very much. 8)  8)