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Ammo reloading and handloading: presses, dies, components, load data, and gear guides.
The Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series rotary tumbler is the best brass cleaner for most serious reloaders, scrubbing cases factory-clean inside and out with stainless pins. If you want the simplest possible process, the dry Frankford Arsenal Quick-N-EZ vibratory is the budget pick that most people are happiest with. Here are the six best brass tumblers … Read more
The RCBS Rock Chucker Supreme Master Kit is the best reloading kit for most people, a forever-quality single-stage setup built around the press that tops our presses guide. On a tight budget, the Lee Breech Lock Challenger Kit gets you loading for the price of a few boxes of ammo, and high-volume shooters should look … Read more
The RCBS Full-Length Die Set is the best reloading die set for most people, a reliable, well-supported workhorse that loads almost any cartridge and fits any press. If you swap calibers constantly, the Hornady Custom Grade set with its quick-change bushings is the move, and precision bolt-gun shooters should look at the Redding Type S. … Read more
Before you reload a single round of .300 Blackout, understand this: a .300 BLK cartridge can chamber in a 5.56 or .223 rifle and destroy it. They share the AR-15 magazine and bolt, so a stray .300 round in a 5.56 gun is a catastrophe waiting to happen. With that understood, .300 Blackout is a … Read more
.45 ACP is one of the most forgiving cartridges to reload, right alongside 9mm, but it has one trap that catches everyone: it uses large pistol primers, not the small pistol primers 9mm takes. It runs at low pressure on a fat straight-wall case, takes a .451 bullet usually around 230 grains, sizes on a … Read more
6.5 Creedmoor is the cartridge that made precision reloading mainstream, and it is one of the most rewarding rounds to handload. It runs on rifle primers, though you have to check your brass because premium match brass often uses small rifle primers, plus a high-BC 6.5mm bullet from 120 to 147 grains, a slow-burn rifle … Read more
.308 Winchester is the classic full-power rifle cartridge to reload, and it rewards careful handloading with real accuracy gains over factory ammo. It runs on large rifle primers, a .308 bullet from 150 to 175 grains, a medium-burn rifle powder, and robust brass that lasts many loadings. The work is a step up from a … Read more
Reloading .223 Remington and 5.56 NATO means working a bottleneck rifle case: small rifle primers, a .224 bullet from 55 to 77 grains, a rifle powder, and brass that has to be lubed, trimmed, and watched for stretch. The one thing to settle before anything else is that .223 and 5.56 are not freely interchangeable, … Read more
9mm is the cheapest and most forgiving cartridge to learn handloading on. It runs on small pistol primers, a 115 to 147 grain bullet, a fast-burning pistol powder, and clean once-fired brass, and the straight-wall case sizes easily on a carbide die with no lube. This guide covers what 9mm specifically needs, how to prep … Read more