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8/13/2009 11:59:46 AM EDT
Why do we call it REloading?  I often load ammunition from brass I have shot.  I suppose this can be called REloading.  However I regularly load using new brass, new bullets, new primers, and new powder.  Nothing RE here.  I think we should  call what we do loading.  End rant.
8/13/2009 12:13:44 PM EDT
[#1]
Many refer to it as HANDloading, which is also inacurate.  Don't we use dies and presses.  Wouldn't TOOLloading be more appropriate as well.
8/13/2009 12:14:17 PM EDT
[#2]
We do, it is called handloading ETA beat by a few seconds
8/13/2009 12:19:13 PM EDT
[#3]

Handloaders may not be reloaders.  There's a distinction in my opinion.
8/13/2009 12:42:43 PM EDT
[#4]
RELOADING is previously fired brass.

PRELOADING is new brass.

And FREELOADING is what LotBoy does when he goes shooting with me and uses my ammo.
8/13/2009 12:55:37 PM EDT
[#5]
LotBoy...holy blast from the past...how many mags does he have now?  Up into double digits yet?
8/13/2009 12:57:49 PM EDT
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Quoted:
LotBoy...holy blast from the past...how many mags does he have now?  Up into double digits yet?


He bought a SIG 556 and recently sold it.  He still has one Colt AR maybe 4 mags and a small stash of Q3131A.
I actually BANNED him from shooting with me... although I can't remember why now.
I think it was that he pissed backwards on a night mission when I was counting on him.
8/13/2009 9:53:29 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
RELOADING is previously fired brass.

PRELOADING is new brass.

And FREELOADING is what LotBoy does when he goes shooting with me and uses my ammo.


Never heard of Preloading. Handloading with all new components, yes, but Preloading?
8/14/2009 4:59:45 AM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
Why do we call it REloading?  I often load ammunition from brass I have shot.  I suppose this can be called REloading.  However I regularly load using new brass, new bullets, new primers, and new powder.  Nothing RE here.  I think we should  call what we do loading.  End rant.


Its a hold over to when it all started back in the Buffalo Hunter/professional hunter days and what the Winchester Company & lyman Company called the components and tools they produced.  Even today, the vast majority of handloading is done with pre-fired cases.

MLG
8/14/2009 5:12:45 AM EDT
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Quoted:

Never heard of Preloading. Handloading with all new components, yes, but Preloading?


That's because I just made it up a few years back.  That's how hardcore I am.
8/14/2009 6:29:46 AM EDT
[#10]
You must have had a looooong session on the REloading bench to have such a trivial thought pop into your head. Sadly, I get them too when down in the basement pulling that level over and over and over again...
8/14/2009 6:44:07 AM EDT
[#11]
A few years back I was corrected to my use of the word "reloading" that should have been "handloading" according to this one individual.  Frankly I could care less what ever it's called.  To me it helps me unwind and relax
8/14/2009 7:08:45 AM EDT
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Quoted:
You must have had a looooong session on the REloading bench to have such a trivial thought pop into your head. Sadly, I get them too when down in the basement pulling that level over and over and over again...


You got that right!  
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