Inflation maybe? People don't seam to be shooting as often the past month. Anyone else notice it too?
It’s not just the cost of ammo that limits one’s shooting it’s the toll on my old hands AND it’s a catch 22.It's not that difficult to understand?
How many non reloaders can afford over $20 a box of 50 for 9mm let alone the other more expensive calibers?
Range trip, gas plus $50 to fire 100 rounds??
Don't be too mad. I scrap my club brass. 95% of what I scrap is worn out scrap or steel empties. I do see some new .270 brass but the club has a lifetime supply already. For the past year competition shooters and the police are keeping their own shells. At least at my club, most shooters sweep the stuff up for me to collect.Sadly, we have several people at my club who pick up ALL the brass they can to sell to the scrap dealer. Makes me mad that they will scrap brass that other members would have reloaded.
How many non reloaders can afford over $20 a box of 50 for 9mm let alone the other more expensive calibers?
Range trip, gas plus $50 to fire 100 rounds??
I am immensely grateful that I don't have to scrounge brass to sell in order to make ends meet.Just this morning I saw 45 Colt for $50/50 rounds. Haven't seen any in quite a while, but I left it there since I load it. 9mm is getting cheap again, but I haven't shot it in years. And I honestly don't know how much I could afford to shoot if I had to buy factory ammo.
However, on my last two or three range trips I have found about fifty 308 cases, some 223/556 and 9mm, a few 45acp and 10mm, and a single 40sw.
I think it was late last year (might have been early this year) that I was there shooting and a guy rolled up in his truck. He opened the tailgate and pulled out a five gallon bucket, a "grabbing stick", and started picking up brass. When I asked him for my brass that he had picked up, he gave it too me along with all the other 223 and 45acp brass he had picked up along with an apology. He was nice enough, but it was pretty obvious that he wasn't there to shoot, just collect brass. Last summer and before that you could find all the brass you could carry and then some.
chris
Funny, I know people who will pay $12.00 for a box of primers they'll never use and be thankful for the opportunity. But will absolutely refuse to pay $3.50 for that box when the market slows.
that’s because brass 9 mm is back down to $15~$1 for range stuff. And a case is about $300. STOCK UP PEOPLE! don’t get catch like in 2021… Yes! it will happen againI also noticed no aluminum casings lately too.
Why stock up on blammo-crappo shelf ammo? We’re handloaders. We don’t need any stinking cheap crap box stuff.that’s because brass 9 mm is back down to $15~$1 for range stuff. And a case is about $300. STOCK UP PEOPLE! don’t get catch like in 2021… Yes! it will happen again
Some ranges schedule range closure/maintenance and arrange for scrap lead removal from the impact berms based on estimates derived from round counts.Why the logging? I guess I do too by being a member and checking in & paying. Just sounds different to say logging in.
Your absolutely right.These people ^^^^ are not reloaders or even future reloaders. These people are trying to hedge their bets, thinking they will reload at some point in time. They won't. I know people like this, and they won't ever change. I've even asked coworkers who shoot and don't reload to save me their brass, and they don't. Always some excuse why they didn't. One even shoots in his back yard, and still hasn't given me any brass after almost two years of asking for it.
I do still find brass at the range, and a lot of steel cases and shotgun hulls. I believe at some point it will change and brass will once again be found in abundance.
chris
The 45-70 guy could use the Lee loader. It's not like that's a high round count chambering.Your absolutely right.
That won't stop me from trying to push them over the edge though. If you going to get addicted, you may as well have the fun.
I make a standing offer to demo anyone interested, and if they do buy in, to come over, setup their equipment, and go over it with them, as well as provide at least enough components to get started (when I had them anyway).
But so far, I have had a few takers. I'll call it success.
Seeing a guy buy a 45-70, a loader, and all the stuff, but then complaining they "don't have room" to set up a 2'x2' load station in an almost empty apartment, I just don't get.
Seeing a guy go all out to load 9mm luger and .223, and save about $3.00/box, and actually do it? That's always a real win.
I still see the value in cheap 9mm ball stuff. I shot plenty before buying a press and it worked every time. Stuff like Blazzer Brass, Winchester white box! goes bang and shoots straightWhy stock up on blammo-crappo shelf ammo? We’re handloaders. We don’t need any stinking cheap crap box stuff.
I was there. You shoulda seen the look on the guy who swept them up when he came back to get em.I got lucky the other day. Found a neatly swept up pile of .38 special brass. Filled up a gallon "flex'n seal" bag to the top.
Normally I'm lucky to find a couple dozen each of 45/38.
Yeap, 38 spc once most common of all, is becoming harder to find in the wild.I stocked up wen it was available as pick ups
only thing short on is 38 spl for my wife's hand gun
not many shoot 38 spl any more
Mike