BLACKWATCH RELOADING 101
Experienced reloader Jared Hearsey, who will be familiar to you from recent articles, has generously gifted us his reloading manual to reproduce in a series of articles. If you want to skip straight to the meat of it you can order the manual at: www.blackwatchreloadingco.nz
Now we’ve lost all fear of the imperial system and realise what we’re looking at is just an incremental scale, we can move on to some of the tooling you’ll need to become competent with and confident using.
CALLIPERS
First, and used above all other tools on your reloading station, is the digital dial or Vernier calliper. These callipers give a direct reading of desired linear distance, measured with high accuracy and precision, to 0.001 (one thou).
Callipers can measure internal dimensions…