Bottom line. I barely have time to warm the barrel of a gun, let alone make ammo. I figure retirement would be the only way I'd have time to reload, but retirement isn't really in the cards for me.
Maybe, but I've been retired a long time. And while it's different now, for the first few years after I retired, I was so busy I couldn't figure out how I ever had time to work. Several of my retired friends said the same thing.
Joking aside, this is my first post in this thread because I DO reload, and the question was "Why DON'T you reload." I've read most of the other responses though, and I feel most of them are good, legitimate reasons for not reloading - that
don't apply to me. I didn't take up handloading 40 some odd years ago to save money or time, or to be more self-reliant, or to build uncommon ammo. I took up handloading because it looked like it would be something I'd enjoy, and I
do. The facts that I now build ammo that is non-mainstream and just not available everywhere, and some of the ammo I build is (in my opinion and experience) better than factory ammo, and I now have enough components on hand to last me the rest of my life, are all just icings on the cake.
Nevertheless, I don't think handloading is for everyone any more than working on their own automobile(s) is for everyone. For that matter, our darned lawnmower blew its transmission last week, and it's going to cost more than it's worth to fix it. So, my wife and I went to Lowe's and priced new mowers. And we've just about made up our minds to get by with our big-wheel pasture mower for the rest of this year and hire a lawn service outfit to take care of our lawn from there on out - that will give us more time for doing things we enjoy, like handloading.