whoo boy shotshell reloading prospect

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I agree with Skeet. Get a MEC 600jr. That is what I started on when I first started shooting clays. Used it for a couple of years until I was spending my entire Sunday shooting, cleaning the guns, and reloading. The press is virtually indestructible, not very expensive, and will work for almost all your reloading. If you only reload to hunt, that press should last you a lifetime.

I also agree with what Skeet said about the STS and AA hulls as being the best to reload, along with the powder, primer, wad, and shot selection.

What Skeet left out is that you can find data for reloading on most of the powder manufacturer's websites, and you can use this data to figure out exactly what you need for the load you want. Me, I load for a bunch of different hulls and activities, so I have an Excel spreadsheet created for all the different loads with a cross reference to the load data source. Same goes for my metallic cartridges.