You’ve resized and primed the case, dropped the powder charge, and now it’s time to seat the bullet.

With your case preparation complete, you can now charge your case with powder. The process by which this task is completed is simple.

You’ve bought a bunch of components, and you’re ready to start loading. But where do you begin?

A basic reloading setup is fairly straightforward: you need a press, dies, and case preparation tools to shape your brass, powder tools to measure and drop powder within the cases, dies to seat the bullet, and some measurement tools to check your work. Below we break down these categories to help you choose the tools best suited to your needs.

If you’re going to carry a rifle, you should first ask yourself “what am I trying to do here?”

Second line gear should supplement the survival items you’ve mounted on your belt, but be tailored to the specific goals and purpose of your outing. As always, the items recommended below are all high quality options for mission fulfillment gear and no recommendation will be made on the basis of my own financial interests.

The belt is the foundation of first line gear. When it comes loading up, some folks like to run a streamlined, minimalist rig. Others are chasing Batman levels of utility. In choosing a gun belt, you’re looking for a rigid system that will support the weight of the items you need to carry.

If your optic has a mil hash system, you can use those angle measurements to get a rough estimation of your target’s range based on an approximate or known value of the target’s height.