I've loaded quite a few rounds for the carbine, they are great little guns, very reliable and trouble free, and some can even be quite accurate. I've generally used the cheap Berry's Bullets for plinking and the Speer 110 grain "varminter" HPs for serious work. I've taken a couple of white tails and one coyote with those bullets and they perform perfectly, a 30/06 could have done no better. For powders I like 4227, H110 and AA-9. It will save a lot of bother if you get a carbide size die since you will probably be loading a lot of ammo. The biggest problem, really the only problem, is finding the brass which tends to scatter over a wide area. You do need to keep brass trimmed to a consistent length.