How to Reload Your Ammunition Safely:
Always follow the manufacturers printed step by step instructions in the presence of your mentor.
Practice with dry runs until you become familiar with the reloading equipment, and you feel satisfied that you are ready to begin to reloading live ammunition.
For Centerfire ammunition reloading, choose the best smokeless powder and bullet design to use from the reloading handbook. This book reveals minimal to maximum bullet and smokeless powder weights.
For shot shell ammunition reloading, select smokeless powder and shot size to use from a shot shell reloading handbook. This handbook will list minimal to maximum shot charges and smokeless powder weights.
I think the best tip is to practice with dry runs so that you can become familiar with reloading your equipment. The more you understand your weapon and ammo, the better equipped you'll be to handle whatever comes your way.
Speaking of being prepared for a SHTF scenario, there are some things not to do while reloading ammo.
Check out the next slide to learn what those things are, and why it's vital to never do this to your ammunition!
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Derek Herrle
really 10 years?
So i shouldnt buy 1000 rounds of 60 year old 12ga off the internet from one site, have it shipped to my house, then bury it in front of my house in a cardboard box?
My thought exactly. I have seen ammo the Jordanian military had. .50 cal from the 50’s and 40mms from the 70’s. Best ammo ever shot minus the tracer compound didn’t work.
Have to put pea gravel in the bottom of the hole
Twas sarcasm sir.
Alex Nunes Your thoughts?
Its actually a myth that storing magazines full wears the spring do to the fact the spring is heat treated to hold that shape and any heat will force it back to the original rate of coil
Low humidity is ideal and touch the ammo bare handed as little as possible due too oils on your hands
Pretty sure that’s why genuine Soviet ammo had the non-corrosive coating.$#%&!@*for the gun, but great for long shelf life.
Yeah you’d be surprised how corrosion inducing the oils from your hands can do to brass and even wood i.e. why relics made of metal and would are handled with gloves
Bud Boggs
Brooks Campbell
Gnik Bob
I was taught it will warp the spring, even in the army they told us this.
Best ammo storage is a vacuum sealer, air and water tight.