Robbins290
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With even .05 cents per round. and 100 rounds a week. that is a cost of $260 per year. Thats alot more training you could have in year by almost another 1500-2000 more rounds down range.
A totally valid consideration.
Some of this stuff sounds like intense study reading gun rags in the bathroom. I am amazed that you folks do not reload.
Some of this stuff sounds like intense study reading gun rags in the bathroom. I am amazed that you folks do not reload. I'd suggest at least see what it would cost you to start reloading.I figure that my rounds may cost five cents each.. The suggestion is to investigate. There is a great selection of high performance bullets available. For the volume I shoot buying cartridges is simply out of the question. I cast my own bullets. Muzzle flip and recoil is rinky dink.
I would suggest looking at the Lee Classic Turret and/or a Dillon 550. You were trying to load volumes of rounds the hard way. I use both of these machines as we speak. Good stuff. Very nice avatar you have.But do not have time for it.
I'd suggest your checking out the Dillon Website. I have had great service calling Dillon. Most recently I had a failure with my twenty-five year old primer feed. Dillon replaced the entire unit on warranty. I prefer to take a little more time making sure powder charge as it should be. Also, I use a case gauge for my rounds. I suspect that many torn up guns have to do with the "slam blam thank you ma'am"school of reloading. You may be interested in some of the self-indexing presses in that line. There are some things on YouTube on Dillon's. "Ten Reasons not to buy a Dillon" is a hoot. Hope you can find something that works for you.I seen how fast the dillan 550 can spill out rounds.
I do, but I choose to reload ammo that is FAR more expensive than 9 or 40, generally revolver calibers and in the future 10mm. To me, using my time reloading 9 or 40 is not as good a cost savings as reloading .327 or .45 Colt, so I don't do it.Some of this stuff sounds like intense study reading gun rags in the bathroom. I am amazed that you folks do not reload.
Check out the Lee Breech Lock Pro Progressive, it's a progressive press that costs about $110 and has really good reviews. It's not a Dillon, but that doesn't mean it can't work and it's my next press that I intend to buy. I never intended to buy a press after I got the LCT, but being able to do 100 or 200 rds an hour on a progressive is hard to pass up.I used to. But do not have time for it. I only had a turret press which takes for ever to load a thousand rounds. I rather spend that time dry firing/training then doing live fire at the weekend
Some of this stuff sounds like intense study reading gun rags in the bathroom. I am amazed that you folks do not reload. I'd suggest at least see what it would cost you to start reloading.I figure that my rounds may cost five cents each.. The suggestion is to investigate. There is a great selection of high performance bullets available. For the volume I shoot buying cartridges is simply out of the question. I cast my own bullets. Muzzle flip and recoil is rinky dink.
If one doesn't cast the cost of reloads goes way up.
If one doesn't cast the cost of reloads goes way up.