Are you: a Shooter who reloads, or a Reloader who shoots??

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I Like Reloading Best...

I'm a reloader that shoots.
I shoot to get the results of my reloading and so that I can reload some more.

I do like to shoot but I can reload in comfort regardless of temperature or weather.
It's never too hot or too cold in the 'Cave'. :D

I'm also teaching 2 sons-in-law and a nephew to load so I get to enjoy that aspect of it also.

Shooting ~ Reloading. Reloading ~ Shooting.
It's a win - win situation.
It's all good.

ST

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Absolutely shooter first (love shooting - enjoy reloading). Both activities put smile on my face.

I started reloading when I started match shooting because match grade reloads are often more accurate than most factory ammunition.

Of course, reloading provided the obvious "lower cost" ammunition than factory ammunition. But as many will state, since I love shooting, I just ended up shooting more rounds for me to reload. But since I enjoy reloading, I don't mind. :neener:
 
I love to shoot,I love to reload,I love to cast,now were was I?I started reloading just after shooting in a informal IDPA shoot,then started 3 gun,had to start reloading to feed my habbit,then started casting and I shoot more now than ever.
 
I don't reload for several reasons, one of which is because I have watched several individuals go from being shooters who reload so that they can shoot more to reloaders who spend a significant amount of developing and tweaking their reloads and shooting to test and verify their work. I am amazed at the amount of time they will spend in examining spent cases and rounds that failed to fire, certainly more than the time they spend assessing their targets.

Funny thing is that at least 2 of them consider themselves to be shooters who reload while large parts of their shooting sessions are all about reloading.
 
I am only ONE lottery win away from selling my reloading gear - LOL

For me shooting is the fun and reloading is only the means to enjoy it on my budget.
 
dc.fireman said:
Lately, it seems like I don't have as much time to shoot as I'd like - but I can always spare an hour or hour and a half to devote some time to reloading. I'm also fascinated by things mechanical, and things used to produce things mechanical. I'm also fond of the occasional loud boom...
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Hopefully the loud boom you are so fond of is on the range and not in the reloading room.:D

I require a quiet evening with no distractions to reload...and such times to reload is rare and valuable to me. Stores of 100's of ammo carriers full of reloads will never happen at my house like some of you lucky souls have. I have 5 grown kids (4 living in my town) and 17 Grandkids! There always seems to be company at my house, so I'm lucky to be able to reload fast enough to keep me (and my grandsons) in ammo. Never more than a week or so ahead.:eek:
 
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I don't reload for several reasons, one of which is because I have watched several individuals go from being shooters who reload so that they can shoot more to reloaders who spend a significant amount of developing and tweaking their reloads and shooting to test and verify their work. I am amazed at the amount of time they will spend in examining spent cases and rounds that failed to fire, certainly more than the time they spend assessing their targets.
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Have to comment on that. There are hobbies within hobbies, and I wouldn't dream of stomping on somebody's view of fun. I'm not one of the developers, but I'm glad for them. Once they tweak something that works really well, I and many other reloaders "steal" it from them without guilt and escape the work they find so fulfilling, except to work up their load for an individual firearm. There are more than a few of those "scientists" that post here, and they're happy to share their research with us.

For me reloading makes it possible to shoot often, and even take my grandsons along and furnish their ammo too. I've shot the same load of 6 grains of Unique in my .45ACP for 30 years. It works well and is more accurate than the cheap Walmart Federals I had to buy last week to requalify (CC) with. If you are well heeled enough to not need to reload, then I'm tickled for you. I had to go to a progressive just to keep "us" in ammo. And part of that problem was exacerbated last year, by the fact that local sources of commercial ammo were dried up..gone...even at Walmart.

One of my younger friends is a successful 3 state champion, in 3-gun competition who is sponsored by Wilson. He reloads everything he shoots, and he shoots more per day than I do per week.

I'm thinking the main reason that you don't reload, is because you dont' find it fun or otherwise rewarding, and that's great too.
 
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I love reloading because i like to see the finished results of all the components come together.
If the results were correct and assembled correctly then it makes shooting more enjoyable. Shooting factory rounds are not as much fun as seeing the results of your own effort from start to finish.
Ron
 
I like reloading, and I like shooting.
I cant affoard to do one without the other. :cheers:
 
Well, I probably wouldn't handload if I couldn't shoot. But, I would definitely shoot if I couldn't handload.

I guess that makes me a shooter who reloads, but I do enjoy to reload quite a bit.
 
I started reloading to shoot. I then learned the difference in loads and when the first bullet went through the same hole on paper I may have become a reloader...I like the problem solving...eventhough I am just learning.....
 
Some days I enjoy reloading more than shooting. I am currently working up a load for my new Howa 1500, so time spent at the reloading bench takes on a different quality than my usual routine. Love 'em both.
 
I've been shooting for years.
Just started reloading, and really enjoy it thus far.
Guess I'm a shooter who reloads.


But ask me again in three years.
 
Well, normally I would answer "A shooter who reloads." But after finding myself single and shooting Highpower again this spring (trade a woman for a rifle? Naw, I had the rifle all along...), I am having this compulsion to upgrade my powder measure. And maybe get a set of Redding dies. Oh, and I've never tried a primer pocket uniformer or flash-hole deburring tool, but a lot of people say it really improves the performance of 600-yard ammo. And my old brass is, well, old and tired... :what:

I believe I have to beware of the slippery-slope, otherwise my "I want a smallbore rifle" fund is going to become "I want some really precise reloading gear" fund! If you're always reloading, how do you find enough practice time to get better at shooting to make use of your perfect reloads? :uhoh:
 
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