1st Bulk Order

[Yurei]

Well, now that the Wife gave me a Glock 20 Gen 3, I need some ammo for it other than the one box of Sig FMJ the LGS tossed in with the purchase. At this time, I am not set-up to reload, but that will be changing in the next few months, so I'm looking to buy some good quality ammunition that will have good cases for a first-time reloader.

I keep seeing members here buying S&B, and have found it to be good ammunition in my other calibers, but don't know anyone who has reloaded it so I'm looking for recommendations and advice.

And, fair warning, it won't be long until I'm asking for recommendations on reloading equipment as well.

[The_Shadow]

There are several options, here are a few, but you need to take all of the aspects into consideration to include shipping.
Parabellum Research Ammo
https://www.pbrammo.com/

Georgia Arms
http://www.georgia-arms.com/

Freedom Munitions
https://www.freedommunitions.com/ammunition/pistol/10-mm.html

As far as reloading equipment I usually recommend RCBS Rock Chucker kit and RCBS carbide dies, RCBS has a Rebate for purchase over $300 get $75 back mail back.   http://www.rcbs.com/RCBS/media/RCBSMedia/PDFs/Promotions/2016-RCBS-Rebate-Jan1-Dec3.pdf

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I started out with 1K rounds of Georgia Arms canned heat.  The S&B stuff would be fine as well.  If reloading is in your future, you can buy brass direct from starline really cheap too.

As far as equipment, I will get ahead of the game with three recommendations:

Inexpensive, spartan, does the job:  Lee reloader press (about $35), lee carbide dies (about $35) and Lee Auto Prime XR (about $20).  All three are on Amazon, total cost with shipping is $88.03.  I do 90% of my 10mm reloading on this exact setup despite having several other presses.  In fact, I do about eveything but sizing, swaging on this set up.  Bullet seating and crimping even for the big cartridges.  I have the reloader press mounted to a section of 1X4, and can clamp it where ever I need, including to a shooting bench at the range.  With this set-up you are limited to dipping powder and therefore limited to that load data, but it will get you by.  A scales would set you back another $25 or so....

Inexpensive Deluxe:  Lee Breechlock Challenger Kit + 10mm dies.  Also available on Amazon $149.88 with shipping.  This is a huge step up from the spartan kit, and if you account for the fact that dipping powder sucks if you want to stretch the performance envelope, it is on another $35 over the spartan kit.  I have this kit, and it is solid.  Love the quick change dies.

Deluxe:  RCBS Rock chucker supreme kit + 10mm dies (lee are cheapest and they all work fine).  This is the actual kit I started with.  The Rock Chucker press is great to have around if you like to do crazy things.  It is hell for strong, and can take abuse that honestly the Lee presses can't.  Mind you, this is stuff well outside the realm of normal reloading.  This is a great kit and everything works really well. Also on amazon comes to $312.88 with shipping.

All three of these options were on Amazon prime.  The first two had items that were on backorder so they wouldn't promise 2 day delivery.  The RCBS kit would be here tomorrow if a paid for next day shipping, or on Thursday on normal prime.

[Yurei]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I have a line on an unused Rockchucker Kit from about 2001 that I may be able to pick-up for around $50 or so. I'll probably pick-up a set of the Lee dies as they seem really well reviewed. Any suggestions to a case cleaner? The old vibratory cleaners seem to be losing ground to the wet-style but the reviews are all "love this/hate this" depending upon what they recently bought.

I just placed an order for 500 rounds of the S&B 180 FMJ through Bud's as they had the best delivered price to me in East Tn. Works out to $.32 delivered. Considering the best prices locally are for the Sig 180 @ $28.50 (plus tax), I'm rather happy to save a quarter a round!

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I used a harbor freight vibrartory and it worked fine for my personal use.

I got a Frankford Arsenal wet pin tumbler about a year ago, maybe less, for processing 50,000 rounds of 7.62 Nato brass.  It is a huge difference.  If I were starting out I would strongly suggest just getting the wet pin tumbler.

https://www.amazon.com/Platinum-Series-Rotary-Tumbler-7L/dp/B00HTN4R6O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475593007&sr=8-1&keywords=frankford+arsenal+pin+tumbler