2021 Reloading Goals

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2021 Reloading Goals

Organization is first and foremost. Over the years I have stuff piled up in different rooms. Stuff I had forgotten I had. About the only thing which I have together is primers everything else represents 30 years of here and there. Nice part is finding things I never knew I had. While it's nice to be surprised finding things I also have stuff including die sets left over from a gun shop my wife and I had early 90s. The other day I remembered 5 Lbs of black powder only because in another forum I saw it mentioned. Someone wanted it and came over from a few towns over. it was free to a good home but a good example of something I would never use. Lately I have been weeding through stuff and for 2021 I hope to just clean house. I have a Remington 03A3 which I seldom shoot but at some point I ended up with 5 bolts, I think 3 complete and 2 stripped. Likely part of something I took in trade years ago. I doubt I need 5 bolts for an 03A3. :)

Ron
 
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In recognition of the fact that once I retired, my income would drop by 54%, I purchased all the reloading components that I could reasonably predict I would need for the rest of my shooting life.

Right now, I am way behind on my projected schedule of reloading those components into finished rounds.

My goal for 2021 is simply to get caught-up.
 
Looking to getinto reloading starting with 350 legend. Father-in-law has been reloading foe 40+ years and is helping me get into it and hes been wanting to play around with the 350 legend around too sooo i cant wait to get into it and start making my own stuff.
 
tjeffords said:
Looking to getinto reloading starting with 350 legend. Father-in-law has been reloading foe 40+ years and is helping me get into it and hes been wanting to play around with the 350 legend around too sooo i cant wait to get into it and start making my own stuff.
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That's great having a mentor. Especially a well seasoned mentor.

Ron
 
Reduce powder inventory (use up powders I've moved away from). Work up loads for 223, 243, and 44 Mag rifles.
 
I have 2 rifles that will be rebarreled this year so my main goal is to work up loads for them and get a quantity of ammo loaded for them. The barrels are not a radical change from whats on the rifles now so I'm hoping that my pet load for each will be about the same. But I've been using up the loaded ammo that I have for them.

My other goal is to keep my loading room as neat as it is now.

Those don't sound like big goals but I've accomplished a lot in the last 5 years that I've been retired. I've sold some tools and upgraded some others. My components are all inventoried and in adequate supply. All of my brass is mostly sorted by caliber and headstamp, deprimed and tumbled. My loaded ammo is inventoried and stored on some new shelves that I just completed last month. If I can just keep things this way!
 
Actually start reloading again. We moved out of our old house in January 2017 and into a 30' trailer, where we lived while my son and family tore down our rickety old farm house and built a brand new custom home for the seven of us. We signed our land over to my son so they could do that, but we're both retired, and now we have our own apartment in the new house. It's wonderful!

Part of the plans for the new house included making a basement storage room into a "gun room" for my son and I, with workbenches and reloading benches. There's also a 6x8 vault, that I haven't mentioned anywhere online yet, but it would take artillery to get into it, so I'm not worried much. We're actually just now bringing stuff in out of storage and arranging it right the first time, we hope. Lots of stuff needs to be done with a new home, like landscaping, gardening, etc.

My main reloading bench for my Dillon and my MEC was stored outside for about three years. The tarp shredded in the wind and the 30"x48"x2" oak top was the worse for wear. I spent the last few weeks of the fall with a belt sander, and got it back into serviceable shape. Bought a new bench for the single stage, and some shelving units. Wife gave me a RCBS Digital powder measure and scale last Christmas, which we just unboxed yesterday. Still have lots of cleaning to do, as most of the equipment was stored in metal cabinets in the barn, and some was in a shipping container. Yesterday I dumped about 7 or 8 pounds of powder into the garden to be tilled in. Still have powder to check out.

Never needed spp before, but son and DIL, got new guns in 9mm and are getting their carry permits, so I have a severe shortage of spp, I think I have 300 magnum spp, and that's it. Son and I shot USPSA a few years ago, so I'm well set on lpp and WW231 for our 45s.

I have a stalled project, a 1903 my dad gave to me when I was 17. He bought it in 1946 for $12 and had it sporterized in the '50s. I never could get it to shoot, so I had the barrel checked out and it had about 6" of freebore! I rebarreled it to .270 Ackley Improved, but the project stalled out at fireforming brass. Anxious to get back at that rifle, even though, at 71, my elk hunting days are over.
 
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How are your reloading goals going in 202?

For myself not well I can’t find the components I need!
I am finding some stuff but not near like I’d want to so I’m setting a new goal to organize my reloading space wish me luck for I will need it.
 
Walkalong said:
kind of low on .41 projectiles, should have done the same for it.
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PM me. I was given some Speer .41's. They're yours for the asking. I'll cover the postage.
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horsemen61 said:
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How are your reloading goals going in 202?

For myself not well I can’t find the components I need!
I am finding some stuff but not near like I’d want to so I’m setting a new goal to organize my reloading space wish me luck for I will need it.
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Started reloading for a new caliber: .40S&W. Still loading for friends and family who don't mind shooting handloads. Running low on some supplies but have actually been stock-piling on other things which are cheap & plentiful since powder and primers are hard to find - cases and bullets, mostly. I think maybe I've sold, traded and gave away more brass in the last six months than I've loaded and still am doing okay. S/LPP are getting very low but I am still flush with LRP. 2K+1K+800 or so SP/SRP on the way from a couple of sources but that won't last long. Basically, I'm good but the people in my community I care about are still not doing good on firearms supplies and I'm running low on resources to help them. In my world, this has NEVER been about "me."
 
My only current goal in 2021 is to stop crushing expensive JHP bullets.

If I get really ambitious, I might try to figure out reloading for .375 Ruger.... so that I can afford to shoot it without taking out a second mortgage.
 
On New Year's Eve, 2021, I will got to bed happy if I manage to pick up 1 case of Large Pistol and Large Rifle primers....for a reasonable price (AKA NOT $150/case).

I wanted to get into loading 45/70 this year but have completely given up on that silliness...
 
Get more components Primers and powder for 6 years worth of shooting, find cheap source of lead and start casting bullets, fine cheap load for ak47 to at least get close to what ever the new normal price of steal case ammo will be. Scrap my mixed lot of 9mm brass and replace with new starline brass.
 
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