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Registered: 01/02/09
Posts: 32
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| | 10/09/09 at 05:20 AM | Reply with quote | #9 |
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Get a decent pot to start with. 20 pound bottom draw is good. Lyman or RCBS are two good ones. There are others out there, these two are the most common. New ones are spendy, check auctions and estate sales. What I've noticed at the auctions is the guns and big ticket items go quickly and at prices the same as a new one. Folks get into a feeding frenzy when bidding and often inflate the price to more than you could buy a new one for. The reloading equipment and casting equipment rarely gets a bid. It goes into a box along with other non-bid items and reoffered towards the end of the auction. The big spenders are usually full by now and of no interest in the junk being offered. You will be amazed at the number of molds and dies the auctioneer will put in a cardboard box and offer for 10 or 20 bucks. Don't bite on it yet, he'll drop to 5 or 10 just to get it rolling again. Often there are no other bidders and it goes for the opening bid. This isn't an everytime thing but I've bought at enough of them to say it's a common thing. You want to concentrate on the auctions with complete estates, not one specializing in guns only - too much competition in those types! A word of caution here - I have not been to an auction since the obama scare started so prices may have gone wild.
A quality bottom draw pot offers you the option of using the bottom draw or a ladle. I find that a ladle works better for me with the large caliber heavy bullets and the bottom draw for the others.
Lube sizers - Lyman and RCBS use the same type dies and top punch so they're interchangeable between them, Saeco and Star not so... I find RCBS much easier to deal with for replacement parts than Lyman. Just a thought...
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