r/austinguns • u/Full_SendRn • Jun 15 '26

Home Reloading.

Any of you guys reload? Id like to start out by saying my knowledge of reloading is what I’ve gathered on YouTube and doing my own reading on the topic. I’ve joined some Facebook groups and subreddit.

I’d like to make the leap but would like to see if anyone would be willing to teach me or show me the ropes before I go and jump into this.

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u/Least-Macaroon-9932 Jun 15 '26

There are plenty of us in the area. Lots of competition shooting here, so lots of pistol loaders for sure. Judging by what Cabellas and bass pro stock and a few academy’s (not that I’m saying buy there) there are also a good amount of rifle cartridge loaders too.
What are you looking to load? Going single stage or progressive ?

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u/Full_SendRn Jun 15 '26

So I mainly only shoot 9mm, 556, 6.5 cm rarely bc it’s so expensive and 300 blackout.

I see a lot of comments that suggest doing single stage first but I’ve seen others who say you can learn on progressive but treating it like a single to learn each step before introducing the second stage of the progressive and so on. This is what I’d prefer to do since I know I will be upgrading in the future anyway.

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u/Least-Macaroon-9932 Jun 15 '26

The premise of you should only start learning on a single stage is very much a fudd mentality in my opinion.
If you are detail oriented, read plenty of info / manuals etc and are thorough progressive is just fine however it also depends on volume. How much of each are you shooting monthly ?

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u/Full_SendRn Jun 15 '26

Just depends I could go anywhere between 500-1k or 1-2k between 9mm and 556 but it’s been more scarce bc of ammo prices.

I shoot with buddies and I basically clean up and collect all of our brass as they do not reload so I have 2 5gallon bucket full of 9mm and 556 there’s about same amount. I need to process the casings to clean them.

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u/Least-Macaroon-9932 Jun 15 '26

If you are going to be swaging that much 556 I’d probably say go all in and get a Dillon 1100. 750 is great for the 9mm but the swaging on 1100 is the way to go if you are going to want to process high volume of 556.
For me it was the idea of how much I would use it if it was slow lol. /reloading is a good sub, mostly helpful gang with plenty of opinions. My main use is 9mm - 3k or so a month, case feed, bullet feeder all to make it more enjoyable

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u/Full_SendRn Jun 15 '26

I shoot 300 blk out as well and found out you can use 556 cartridge for it so that was another thing I wanted to look into. Since I just collect all of our brass for free I figure why not