tachelberry
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I reload obsolete cartridge's that you can't normally find at the corner store.
I also like to load standard cartridges in bulk.
I also like to load standard cartridges in bulk.
Because I can))I pose this prompt just to have something to talk about.
I feel the only reason I reload is to have the ability to posses ammo on hand in the quanites I feel I need for a given period of time. I started loading when I was 13 and found out grass cutting money didn't buy many Aguila 38 specials at 4.99 a box in 2005 let alone 357 magnum. So I bought a lee loader and ordered bullets and supplies through a local shop. I quickly had a mountain of the weakest 38 special loaded with unique I ever seen, I stuck I don't how many bullets in a colt commando(I didn't know lee made more than the dipper in the set). With that said a Smith and wesson 10-5 never stuck a bullet idk why.
My dad was a Vietnam veteran and a weekend warrior, we went camping and he showed me how to set ambushes in the woods for foot patrols.... Normal childhood activities
He provided financial support for the big stuff, I think in his mind of y2k type events 1000 38 specials or a few hundred 270 winchesters would be ballistic wampun for his own betterment.
To sum it up I load simply because it's what I always have done and I half way like it on poor weather days.
Some of them. Some I just store in a coffee can appropriately marked for the mould and caliber.But do you load cartridges with them?
Finding 357 is very difficult and when I found a box it was 50 dollars.... no thanks. 38 seems easy comparativelyMy buddy doesn't reload. He has paid $60 for a box of 38 specials. He has paid over $40 for a box of 45 automatic.
I've offered many times to teach him. He only is interested in what might be considered common calibers. 30-30, 9mm, 22rimfire, 45,38,357. Not that they are all that common now.
My first handgun was a TC Contender in 357 mag. I have never purchased a factory 38 Sp or 357 mag.
The 30 Herrett was probably my third Contender barrel (22 lr was the second). The 30 Herrett would never have been an option without handloading.