Do you reload more rifle, handgun, or shotgun

[TennJed]

Ok I am sure this poll has been done before, but I am a sucker for polls. Do you reload more (or spend more time reloading for) Rifle, handgun, or shotgun? If it is too close to call....pick your favorite

 

[Tim the student]

Rifle, but not by much.

I enjoy shooting rifles more than handguns, so I shoot them more frequently.

But - when I shoot handguns, I shoot far more rounds than when I shoot rifles.

To shoot 60 rifle rounds is a couple hours give or take. For pistol, that is a couple minutes give or take.

I spend more time reloading rifle, and the reloaded round count is probably higher as well.

 

[TennJed]

Thanks Tim...good explanation. That is why i included the spending more time part....one round of rifle = lots of handguns.

And for me I only load handguns. I only shoot rifle's to hunt which is not all that often.

 

[Seedtick]

Handguns, without a doubt and more specifically, revolvers.

I just enjoy revolvers more than brass slingers.

Seedtick

 

[Uniquedot]

Hmmm.... not sure if it would be handgun or shotgun. I think lately it would be handgun cartridges with shotshells following... Never load over a thousand rifle cartridges in a sitting.

 

[gamestalker]

I answered handgun, but I probably spend more time behind a high powered rifle, and shooting fewer rounds too.

 

[2zulu1]

Years ago I would have answered rifle, now it's handguns by a wide margin.

Bob

 

[BADUNAME37]

Actually, for me, it's a toss-up between rifle and handgun, since lately it has been more handgun, I selected Handgun.

 

[gab909]

Depends on the season. I can go to the shotgun range and go through 500-600 rounds with the wife, and that is almost an hour and 15 minutes of reloading. Then again, go to the pistol range, and drop 200 by myself. She shoots alot more shotgun, so I would have to say shotgun. My squirrel, coyote, and deer guns are all loaded on a single stage, so I may take more time loading rifle actually, even though I only shoot a fraction of them

 

[MMCSRET]

I only load for about 30 cartridges anymore. I'm down from a high of 141 different sets of dies at one time. I cast my boolits and load and shoot mostly handguns and BP cartridge rifle anymore.

 

[EMC45]

Handgun. And it is mostly wheelgun loads too. .38 Special, .44 SP/Mag, .357Mag, .32 S&W-L, .32 Mag.

 

[AK_Maine_iac]

I had to say rifle. Cause all of my handguns are for CC. I shoot them enough to keep up my shooting skills and that is about 50 rounds every other week or so. w/each caliber.
Rifles every other day or so. With my hunting rifles. My AR10 well ya know how that is.

 

[CoRoMo]

Rifle for now.

I'm still trying to finish my basement and the reloading room is a drop-cloth ghost presently. I can still swing out a good many .270 loads on the green single stage, but once the Lock-N-Load is completely installed, I'm sure the handgun loads will leave the rifle loads in the dust.

 

[dbarnhart]

I reload more rifle because I have more rifles to shoot.

 

[RugerBob]

Definatly handgun, but I do load for all 3 choices. Slowed down on the shotgun tho as shot prices are way more than I am willing to pay. Cast for most handgun loads.

 

[BigN]

When experimenting with reloads, shooting the rifle is much more time consuming than shooting a revolver, so I probably actually shoot more revolver rounds. I wait 3 minutes between rifle rounds, seems like any faster than that and the rounds start crawling up the target, screws your reload testing up.

 

[kingmt]

I'm not sure which I go through more of but I diffidently spend more time with rifle.

 

[Hondo 60]

I only reload one rifle round
.223 Rem.
Now it takes a lot longer to reload .233 because I use a single stage vs a progressive for the handgun rounds.
But I reload probably 100 handgun rounds to 1 rifle round.

I reload for 7.62x25 Tokarev, 9mm, 38 spl, 357 mag, 45 Colt & 45 Acp.

 

[Dirtdgger]

I voted rifle because of time but I load as many or more handgun.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

My reloading and shooting habits are much the same as Tim's. Almost identical.

 

[FROGO207]

I have the need to feed a 45 ACP MAC 10 and a MP40 so handgun is the obvious answer due to needing to feed those bullet hoses. Combined all my reloading nets me at least a full 2 gallon bucket of used primers for the recycler every year. That first year I started I was glad I saved them cause before that I had no idea that I really used so many. I just tossed the primer containers and spent primers at the end of a session and did not think about it as there was no really large amount at one time to see. It was an eye opener when I did for sure.