Since the Reloading thread seems popular, it might be nice to see how we got our start.

As usual, I'm a little odd. We didn't have much money early on. Dad didn't go to law school, he read law under another lawyer and it took a while before there was money for incidentals.

I had a Savage 22 the lawyer Dad was reading under had given me and built a 410 shotgun out of water pipe and odds and ends. 22's were around .35 cents a box so I could afford to shoot it. I could earn ten cents an hour working for the local farmers. The .410's were expensive though so I started picking up empty hulls whenever I found them.