Gear Review: Lee Breech Lock Hand Press Kit
JWT for TTAG There are lots of good reasons to load your own ammunition. But if you’re going to spend many thousands of dollars on reloading equipment, at least in the first few years, cost…
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Can You Help a Brother Out With Some Primers While He Recuperates?
Yesterday, our own Jon Wayne Taylor went under the knife. Thankfully, he wasn’t sick. Instead, he was participating in something called the DOVE (donor outreach for veterans) program that supports vets who are dealing with…
Florida Reloaders Spark a Fire Igniting 100 Pounds of Powder and 10,000 Rounds of Ammunition
Courtesy fox13news.com Two people have been hospitalized for burns suffered after touching off a fire, apparently while loading ammunition in a Venice, Florida home. From fox13news.com: The home on Sunset Beach Drive was engulfed in…
Is Old Ammunition Safe to Shoot?
As a longtime firearms instructor and head of a gun rights group, people ask me all sorts of questions. All questions have merit, especially for people who are new to guns. Among these questions, folks…
Reloading Component Inventories Getting Tight as Ammunition Sales Soar
Courtesy Thundervoice By Thundervoice About five months ago, I wrote a piece for TTAG about the cost of reloading. Two or so weeks ago, I was visiting with a fellow reloader who had just ordered…
Reloading 101: Beating the High Cost of Ammunition (Part 2)
Dan Z. for TTAG This is the second of two posts on the basics of reloading ammunition. See part one here. If there’s one thing I like more than shooting it’s being a cheap bastard…
Reloading 101: How to Beat the High Cost of Buying Ammunition (Part 1)
Besides being mechanically inept, I don’t have a particularly green thumb. In my 23 years of military service, tending to the greenery was a work detail, or, more often, a punishment (oops, I mean “additional…
Lone Star Guns: Texas Produces Some Great Firearms
The Lone Star State is next-level in many regards when it comes to premium firearm makers that have set up shop in Texas. Here are some of the cooler ones, in alphabetical order. Alamo Precision…
.38 Special: What I’ve Learned After 20,000 Rounds
HB4116 I make a habit of counting the number of reloads I make by keeping a tally of primer and bullet boxes. I’m not a hoarder and I don’t keep them, but I am detailed…
3 Things for Gun Owners to Do During a COVID19 Quarantine
Nils Rasmusson nilsynils / CC0 It’s only been a few days, but are you already starting to climb the walls from being in such close proximity to family members. Are video games not your thing?…