Question: Easiest cartridge to reload?

beantownshootah

July 01, 2005 16:25

IE, what's the ideal beginner cartridge?

I figure it has to be either .38/.357 or maybe 9mm/45ACP.

Also, can anyone give me a ballpark per-round cost for loading pistol ammo?

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  bpost

  July 01, 2005 17:05

  I think the .45 is easiest. It is large enough to see double charges easily and very forgiving in loading. Powder 1.6 cents, primer ditto. bullet 4 cents for cast or cast your own for a penny each..
  
  Total cost about 7.2 cents a round.

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  richbug

  July 01, 2005 18:46

  Not the 9mm, the tapered case is tricky, and 9mms are very sensitive to OAL, pressures spike are a bad thing. Auto pistol rounds have to be the proper length to feed well. I would say that a 38 or 44 is the easiest.
  
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  Bittersweat

  July 01, 2005 20:14

  .40 s&w is also very easy to load. Have loaded thousands on a progressive press and find them no more difficult than .45acp.
  So between .357, .40, and .45, I would call them equally easy.

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  haroldchrismeyer

  July 01, 2005 21:57

  I have some of those plastic 38 special cases that use the plastic bullet and the push in primer. You can load about 50 in ten minutes.

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