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Old 2006-11-08, 05:00 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by tysonK
So reloading is making your own bullets?

Here I thought it referred to shooting your gun fast and dropping the clip and slamming another one in and continuing to fire in succession like in a competition or something.
Not quite "making"... more like "assembling" your own rounds. Basically you trim a used brass case to the proper length (they stretch when their fired), prime it, pour the correct amount of gun powder into it, and press a bullet into the tip. It's not complicated, just tedious.
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