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it needs is a little care, and your am- munition costs will be cut to a fifth.

Reloading Equipment

Here’s an outline of what the pro- cess entails:

The fired (or empty) case is passed into a die which returns it to normal width (if there has been any expan- sion), punches out the used primer, presses in a new one, and puts a very slight bell on the lip of the case. Then each shell is filled with the exact measurement of powder re- quired and a fresh cast bullet is in- serted in the throat of the case. Through the tool they go again to have the bullet pressed down to its proper depth in the case, and slightly crimped. Your shell is complete. And, as I say, if sufficient care is taken with each of the processes the product compares favorably with that of the factory. In any event, who can hold with that steadiness that will dlis- tinguish the difference. Unless the home load is a very crude job, it will take a bench rest test to show up the imperfections.

‘There are a number of handloading tools on the market and the acces- sories that go with them. Most of them can be found in the advertising sec- tion of the “American Rifleman,” the National Rifle Association’s monthly.

The actual tools range from the Ideal, which looks like a_ nickel- plated nutcracker and does more for the dollar than anything I’ve ever heard of, to the Pesco which turns the stuff out in quantities. The Ideal is the simplest tool of the lot, the most inexpensive, but its output is restrict- ed. With it you can handle a great many of the popular calibres in pistol and rifle cartridges. With but one slight modification this tool has been turned out by the Ideal people for close to half a century. Then there is the slightly more complicated Pacific. ‘This clamps to a bench and handles moderate quantities of ammunition and does a splendid accurate job. The output would be about a hundred rounds an hour and for a small group this might be sufficient for practice needs.

There are quite a number of mod- erately priced bench type tools of the fairly simple Pacific type, some work vertically, some horizontally. Up through the range we come to the Pesco, which is a quantity production job for the larger departments. It is claimed, and I believe correctly, that

two men operating a Pesco can turn out about a thousand or eleven hun- dred rounds an hour. It’s truly a most ingenious machine, the powder, primers and cases all self-feeding. It’s on one of these machines that the B.C. Police turned out more than half a million practice rounds in the past 12 years. Pesco is marketed by the Police Equipment Supply Company of Chicago. Reloading Accessories

Other accessories required with the reloading tool are bullet moulds, powder measures, sizing and lubri- cating tool, a melting pot and ladle, and of course primers, powder, lead, tin and bullet lubricant. Primers are always available through the Am- munition Division of C.I.L., as well as pistol powder (Dupont No. 6). Practice bullets are cast from a mix- ture of 96 parts of lead and four parts of tin, and the bullets are lubricated with a hard grease (beeswax and vase- line if you care to make it up yourself) or marketed in sticks, if you buy it.

Before any expenditure is made on equipment it is as well to settle upon the calibre of ammunition you wish to load, for this is naturally depend- ent upon the arms available. It does happen in small departments that there are men carrying weapons of different makes and calibres. I would

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