DEDON45
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Reloading is relaxing (at least to me) but the greatest part of reloading is blasting away at the range, with better accuracy, and for less $$ than the other folks there.... Hey, gotta have something to be proud of!
Shoot or Handload?
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Chris Rhines
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If I could build a conveyor belt from the Black Hills factory, to my garage, I'd never reload another round. 
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The Bushmaster
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Shoot or reload? What kinda question is that?? Reload of course...Why do you think I go to the range in the first place? To shoot? Hell no!! To empty some brass so I can go home and reload...
Matt Dillon
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For me, reloading is as fun as shooting! Except for today's component prices!
shu
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Leaving aside the cost (which is for most folks neutral - we formally or informally budget a certain amount of money for our activities) the point is, that reloading brings a new dimension, understanding, and control to shooting.
Presumedly few or none of us shoot just to make noise and experience recoil. Striking an object downrange with the projectile, repeatedly or predictably, is a major objective of the exercise.
Before I started reloading, I just went and bought some cartridges - usually at or near the least expensive of whatever the store was stocking. Not much point in trying to correlate accuracy to a particular brand or type of ammunition. Might or might not find the same on the next trip to the store.
With reloading comes a whole box of decisions: bullet weight, profile, and metalic composition; powder burn rate, charge weight, etc; bullet seating depth and crimp. What is appropriate for the intended target, barrel twist rate, etc? What works, what does not, and why?
Then, too, I have the means to build off-the-wall stuff like a pawn shop load (three round balls in a 38spl case) should the fancy strike.
-shu
Presumedly few or none of us shoot just to make noise and experience recoil. Striking an object downrange with the projectile, repeatedly or predictably, is a major objective of the exercise.
Before I started reloading, I just went and bought some cartridges - usually at or near the least expensive of whatever the store was stocking. Not much point in trying to correlate accuracy to a particular brand or type of ammunition. Might or might not find the same on the next trip to the store.
With reloading comes a whole box of decisions: bullet weight, profile, and metalic composition; powder burn rate, charge weight, etc; bullet seating depth and crimp. What is appropriate for the intended target, barrel twist rate, etc? What works, what does not, and why?
Then, too, I have the means to build off-the-wall stuff like a pawn shop load (three round balls in a 38spl case) should the fancy strike.
-shu
evan price
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I can't shoot without reloading. I can't reload if I am never going to shoot.
Still, as I sit in front of my press and watch the gelaming, freshly formed ammo tumble into the finished round box, and then gather them up and insert them in ammox boxes, I find myself sighing, with a smile on my face... and when it's time to shoot, it's like, no-no, these are my kids...
Then the feeling passes.
Still, as I sit in front of my press and watch the gelaming, freshly formed ammo tumble into the finished round box, and then gather them up and insert them in ammox boxes, I find myself sighing, with a smile on my face... and when it's time to shoot, it's like, no-no, these are my kids...
Then the feeling passes.
Matt Dillon
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Don't forget the added fun of scrounging for your favorite brass!
Uncle Chan
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I enjoy both, but I prefer to reload.
Shoney
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The question is like asking, "Do you like to eat, or sit on the throne and eliminate it? You can only pick one."
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