Hello, Whenever I am loading at the range..I usually have a Wilson chamber type bullet seater..all brass prep, including priming...unless i am testing primers is done at home. I get a strange look from the younger guys & they usually ask.."you pack your own?" The way they say it, you would think I was doing brain surgery on the shooting bench! This blows my mind..We Americans have been handloading since the late 1860's! I guess the main problem is the younger generations don't like to read..especially American history. I guess I was fortunate to be able to get my hands on books about the Bison hunters of the 1870"s and the great Creedmoor long-range matches of the same period. I wanted to emulate those guys even before I had my first firearm. I taught myself how to cast on an old antique cast-iron range, using a little 10# pot & Lyman dipper..Again..I am grateful for this experiance, for when I read the writings of Ned Roberts and Harvy Donaldson, I feel a distant kinship to these old-time riflemen. I feel handloading is as much and perhaps even more a part of firearm ownership...They compliment one another.
