I'm a lot like Furhunter.....still have a mess of old targets as references.....some of old guns long gone.
I've been doing this since I was very young.....preteen come to think of it. I'm now 58 and have lived though the likes of reading Elmer Keith, Bill Jordan and Skeeter Skelton stuff over the years (couldn't get enough of it either).
I've accumulated a ton of reloading equipment & components, and I've built a special shop just to house it all. The one thing I still do after all these years, regardless of the high production reloading stuff, is still handload all my rifle rounds on a single stage press......taking every step or precaution to make sure they are the best I can do.
Like it has been mentioned here by several........learn the basics, and consider them to be your foundation going forward. Too many nowadays want to skip to the front and just start cranking and loading max. So much is missed out on as well as being dangerous. When I was a younger toad, I couldn't read enough on the subject and I'm so glad I started out that way.....
Bob
