Santa was good to me this year. My brand new RCBS Rock Chucker Supreme is inbound. My wife bought me the Master kit ($289 at Midway), and I've put a few other goodies, like an electronic caliper, a set of dies and some other stuff on order so I can get started at the reloading bench. I am really looking forward to learning how to work up loads for my Thumper.
Up to now, I've had great luck with the Hornady factory loads for deer and hogs, but I want to have options. I had been excited about the prospect of getting my hands on the Remington Hog Hammers, but since they have gone back on two years of promising they'd be out and then discontinuing them in .450 BM, I really want to throw some of the Barnes XPB 200 grain bullets down my barrel. For the time being, I plan to look into a class on reloading or possibly sitting down with an experienced loader to learn the right way. After that, don't be surprised if I hurl a bunch of questions at the gurus on this site.
Thanks again to the folks on this forum for being a great resource of help and information.
Happy New Year, everyone! Here's to spending more time in 2016 knocking the sh*t out of stuff .452 inches at a time.
Chad