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Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 11: The Last Step—Crimping

The last of seven steps in the reloading process gets us perilously close to bang.

Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 10: Bullet Seating Q&A

In a continuation of our reloading series, we answer some bullet seating questions from readers.

Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 9: Bullet Seating

Seating bullets in those prepped and charged cases is easy. Except when it isn’t.

Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 8: Charging the Case

Pow(d)ering up those perfectly prepped cases can make things go right, or very, very wrong.

Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 7: Case Mouth Flaring

Proper flaring of the case mouth forestalls other later problems for the smart reloader.

Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 6: Priming

A bunch of ignition problems simply go away with proper primer “installation.”

Reloading, Part V: Resize And Decap—Start Every Round Right

What begins well often ends well, and reloading our ammunition is no exception.

Exercise Your Freedom | Reloading, Part 4: Good, Fast, Cheap

When it comes to reloading, not all hardware is created equal.

Turrets Big And Small

This design, while unsafe, was an important step in the development of revolving arms.



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