Toprudder
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Even though I joke about it, I think picking a new gun based on brass picked up at the range is not a bad idea. It gives you an indication that a source of brass is available for that caliber.
Are you stock piling reloading components, ammo, or both?
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Oh no, that means I will have a 44 magnum in my collection soon. A couple months ago, I picked up 49 nice looking 44 mag. casings.I just did an inventory of my components, I have have enough to last at least 4 years at my present rate, maybe more.
But then again, if I pick up a new caliber, I'll have to start all over. Someone left a 50 BMG case on the ground at the range. I could not just leave it there, I had to rescue it. Of course, to give it new life, I'll have to buy a new press, new dies, new primers, new powder - and of course, a new gun. The struggle is real.
Try as I may, I couldn't find #50.
Charlie98
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Service Merchandise... in 1987. Woulda, coulda, shoulda...
GunnyUSMC
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I have cartridge cases for a 25mm Bushmaster, but I don’t think I will buy the gun for it. But then just think how fun a day at the range would be.
Kevin Rohrer
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I stocked-up while Comrade Obama was "Prez" and have primers and powder for the rest of my life. Am going thru boolits fast enough that I will need to buy more in a few years. Am looking for some molds to start doing .45ACP.
Toprudder
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44 mag was one of the last calibers I started loading for. It is now one of my favorites. I have a semi-auto, revolver, and lever action now.Oh no, that means I will have a 44 magnum in my collection soon. A couple months ago, I picked up 49 nice looking 44 mag. casings.
That made me laugh! It would drive me nuts, too!
I even went back a few days later and looked. Seen a casing. Drats! It was a 45 Colt brass.
I think the brass bandits where having some fun with me. lol
2011redrider
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Pretty well stocked now after restarting back into reloading in 13 when i retired. Cast all my boolits now and siiting on 8k in 223 jackets. Now only if the deal is too good to pass up, buy em cheap and stack them up like cord wood!
Eddietruett
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y guns.
How about I send you 1? I hate to see a guy go crazy!!! If that's what would push you over the edge, then by all means let me be the one!
Its sort of funny that you speak of 44 mag. Since the late 70's when I started loading, I've been in the 44 mag business at least 4 different times. The first time I got out it was just that I was too broke to load much of anything except the .38 wadcutters that several of us would cast together. 2nd time I sold out was because I had quite shooting because I got bit by the golf bug. Sold my deer hounds and almost all my guns. Once all my loading equipment got caught up in a probate deal when my loading buddy died and all of my equipment was at his house. His family basically took all my stuff. Had no way to prove it was mine. Now I have everything to load 44 and probably enough components to load at leas 2k rounds but I sold my last 44 mag recently. I've become so engrossed in Hog hunting with my .357 that I just quit shooting 44 magnums and wound up trading or selling the few I had. I'm sure I'll wind up with a few here and there and wind up shooting the 44 again. I'm leaning towards going back to the 41 mag. I've always favored it over the 44. I think just because I want to be different.
How about I send you 1? I hate to see a guy go crazy!!! If that's what would push you over the edge, then by all means let me be the one!
Its sort of funny that you speak of 44 mag. Since the late 70's when I started loading, I've been in the 44 mag business at least 4 different times. The first time I got out it was just that I was too broke to load much of anything except the .38 wadcutters that several of us would cast together. 2nd time I sold out was because I had quite shooting because I got bit by the golf bug. Sold my deer hounds and almost all my guns. Once all my loading equipment got caught up in a probate deal when my loading buddy died and all of my equipment was at his house. His family basically took all my stuff. Had no way to prove it was mine. Now I have everything to load 44 and probably enough components to load at leas 2k rounds but I sold my last 44 mag recently. I've become so engrossed in Hog hunting with my .357 that I just quit shooting 44 magnums and wound up trading or selling the few I had. I'm sure I'll wind up with a few here and there and wind up shooting the 44 again. I'm leaning towards going back to the 41 mag. I've always favored it over the 44. I think just because I want to be different.
lol Thanks for the offer! So far I'm able to sleep at night.
Looks like you've had your share of reloading hiccups.
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Hiccups is not the word. I've had full blown Reflux! When I started loading, I was in high school. I loved to hunt and fish so much, but just didn't have the funds to do what my older working friends were able to do. My parents didn't have any extra money to give me for hunting and shooting expenses, so I learned at an early age how to do a lot with less money. Bulk buys for components were a fantasy. 4-5 of us used to sit around for hours casting 148gr wadcutters with wheel weights we would get for free. I had an old Lyman Sizer/Lube press that I have sat in front of for hours sizing bullets for us all. I've spent hours walking the fields after dove shoots picking up hulls. Used to swap standard hulls to the gun shop for WW AA Hulls to load for skeet shooting. IIRC I swapped the cheap Dove and Quail Load Hulls 10 to 1 for the nice AA Hulls. Remington and Federal were 5 to 1. Looking back, it was a blast. If I ever had 1k rounds of .38 wadcutters loaded at a time, I was the richest kid in town! Now days, I'm not rich by any means, but I can afford to do pretty much whatever I want to in the loading room and really enjoy the sport of shooting but sometimes wonder if I'm having any more fun than the days when I bought primers by the 100 instead of 10k.
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