INOR wrote:Thanks. I'll look around a bit. Any advice on a noob to reloading book that I could pick up and check out? To date, I've mostly been shooting basic pistol calibers (.45, .40, .38, 9mm, 380, and .22) and have been buying off the shelf ammo. But do agree based on the cost and availability of some of this larger revolver ammo, need to look at reloading. When at fleet last night, looked through ammo. Plenty of .44 mag on the shelf. And some .45 colt. No 454 Cassull. And no 460 or 480. No 500. So none of the really big stuff.
I think may look for a .44 mag first and then start cutting my teeth on reloading.
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Buying in decent quantities online will be your best pricing. I like to order factory ammo to break in the gun/get used to it and also to build a good supply of brass.
You’ll likely put more rounds through the smaller calibers, not many people will put 1000 rounds (100 is probably a lot for many) through an x-frame in its lifetime so you need to determine if reloading for that purpose makes sense. This also makes for decent condition large frame revolvers on the used market.
If you go .44 mag, you’ll likely shoot it more.
When I started buying revolvers, the first 3 I bought were a 9mm/357mag/38 special, a 45ACP/45 Colt and my 45Colt/454 casull/460. This left me with lots of caliber options, cheap ammo options and some fun guns. 7 options in 3 guns, none require moon clips.