Do you reload?

Do you reload

  • Yes

    Votes: 288 83.5%

  • No

    Votes: 57 16.5%
  • Total voters
    345
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I've been reloading since 1974. It's become almost as enjoyable as shooting. Went thru a divorce about 20 years ago and had to miove to a small, one bedroom apartment. I set up my reloading operation on a Black and Decker Work Mate. When not in use, it folded up and was stored in a closet.
 
No, the point is that you don't shoot the same quantity of ammunition and save money, you spend the same amount (or more) and just shoot more.
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And I am making the point that it is NOT always correct.
 
Don't let space limitations and kids hold you back. My setup is a stand created by and old rear wheel car axle with the floor plate a galvanized wheel rim. The upper cup of the wheel rim works as a temporary basket to hold needed stuff for your immediate work. Attached a 12" X 12' I/2" aluminum plate at the top to put the press and other gadgets on. That with a lockable Sears roller style tool chest for all components and unused gadgets. This I keep in the playroom(I play too). I usually work on it there but it can easily be rolled out anywhere I'd like it. The wife thinks it looks terrible but has no problem taking up just as much space for her sewing machine and fabrics, so we reached an uneasy agreement on it (after 40 years with her, I've learned that you can never win). Caution: Do not keep in the attic or garage as the moisture acts very quick on the dies. Your finished cache of shells can go anywhere as long as in decent ammo cans and most are even lockable.
 
Nope, I'd rather buy it at the store and shoot. I have no interest in such a tedious hobby.
 
yep

Started after my daughter was born. I needed something to do that was quite when she was sleeping....I'm usually up late. About every male in my family loads, so I had lots of knowledge to draw from and lots of hand-me-downs and gifts.

I actually enjoyed loading more than shooting, but with working up loads and all, I'm shooting more again and am starting to enjoy that more again too.

Oh yeah...my daughter helps me "sort" the brass too...22 mos. old.

Fun, educational, family activity, and getting more economical as I go along....
 
Japle said:
Just passed 190,000 rounds since 1972.

Dillon makes life worthwhile.
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^^^ That's a rather impressive amount of home-grown ammo when you really begin to think about it!


Personally, I've been reloading for a few years now. I currently load for 8 different calibers, and I shoot home-loaded ammo for all but my duty guns (reloads are cheap, but department ammo is cheaper).

I currently load a few thousand rounds per year, though it really depends on what I'm shooting. I've been shooting my .308 bolt gun a lot this year, and my ammo requirements are much smaller for that rifle, at least when compared to my pistols.
 
I found a great deal on a Dillon SDB on ebay a few years back. I wanted to start reloading to save money and shoot alot more, turns out its one of my favorite hobbies now, I enjoy listening to music in my garage and just cranking out the rounds.
 
I answered yes because I do reload, but considering this is in the handgun forum, I might be lying a little.

I've only been reloading for about 6 months now and all I've done so far is .223 and .270, no pistol calibers yet, but I'm getting there. I've got a few thousand .40SW shell casings that are waiting for some dies.
 
Not yet.

I never, ever get to shoot anymore, so it's not worth it. At this point, it's cheaper and easier just to buy a box of ammo when I head out.

Someday, this may change, but it's going to be a long time.

I do have a single stage shotgun press, but it's no fun at all to use so I'm not in any particular hurry to reload anything else.
 
Reloading isn't fun for me. But when I have something more important to do and I need to procrastinate, it suddenly becomes very attractive. :)
And one thing I like even less than reloading is buying ammo at retail price.
 
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Reloading isn't fun for me. But when I have something more important to do and I need to procrastinate, it suddenly becomes very attractive.
And one thing I like even less than reloading is buying ammo at retail price.
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That's about where I'm at with it. I don't particularly enjoy it but I do enjoy shooting and handloading allows me to do much more of it per dollar spent. It also allows me MUCH more flexibility than would ever be possible with factory loads and I like that too. I've heard it said, for safety reasons, you shouldn't handload if you don't enjoy it but I'm sure most folks don't enjoy driving to work every day either. ;)
 
Yes, when my daughters were growing up, shooting combat pistols was our joint hobby. They got very good, but were shooting me poor. I've done about 20,000 rounds and my wife thinks that I like reloading and cleaning my guns more than shooting them (not true).

Here is their high school graduation pictures. Luckily, the photographer was a shooter. They are out of the house now, but each got a .40s&w pistol for college graduation and each has a carry permit.
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A buddy helped me move house and noted I had some presses. "My dad did that, and taught me, but I don't do it. Ammo is dirt cheap at Cheaper Than Dirt."

Another helper said, "Not dirt cheap--cheaper than dirt. I don't reload either, why bother?"

This was before the economic transitions that have been on everyone's mind, very shortly before a temporary vanishing of certain calibers from the marketplace. .380, for example, was nowhere to be found in my neighborhood. I don't use it, but it worried some people.
 
I realize handloading borders on a religion with a large percentage of shooters. I used to handload. That was at least 25 years ago. The practice was very time-consuming and tedious. It may have saved me money but it cost me a lot in the time it took. And I never enjoyed the process of handloading anyway. It was done purely as a cost-cutting measure. I eventually stopped and gave away all the equipment. By the way, the guy I gave it to has never used it. He says he just couldn't find the time to set it all up and learn the procedures.

Now that I'm retired, I consider my time even more valuable. I'll use what little time I have left for those things I enjoy.

Call me a heretic.
 
I do reload but not as much as I should. I only shoot reloads so as I slow down reloading I slow down shooting. So shame on me.:neener:
 
Detonic451........... I thought I had the fever bad!!!! Jeese Loueze....!!! Sweet set up...

I have been reloading since about 1965... the presses I have gone through, Star set up for 38spl. Star set up for 45acp, Phelps (same as Star) in 9mm, all gone now that they are all but impossible to find parts for..,, and after I discovered Dillon.

My current inventory is a Dillon 550, a Dillon 650, My original RockChucker... (still going strong!) And I have a little Lee hand press that I carry to the range for some load development..

I lost count years ago of how many rounds I have loaded, at one time I had a 500 round a week habit, and that went on for about 8 or 9 years.. But at 50 weeks a year that would have put me at over 225000 rounds just for my match pistols..

I load for 380, 9mm, 38/357, 44spl, 44Mag, 45LC, 45acp, 45 GAP.. 30 Herrett, 357 Herrett, 40 S&W, 10mm, 32H&R mag.. and 44-40..

In rifle, just off the top of my head, 22 hornet, 223, 243, 6mm Rem, 7X61 Sharp & Hart, 7mm Mag, 30 Carbine, 30-06, 308, 30-378 Weatherby, 444 Marlin, 45-70, 45-110, 7mm-08, 303 Brit..8mm Mauser... there may be a few more,

What I really need to to do is clear me out a whole room and set it up like Detonic451... man that is a nice setup...

I started about 2 weeks ago trying to sort through a 55 gal drum of unsorted mixed range brass that I bought... man I never in my life will go through all the 9mm that is coming out of that....
 
I started reloading/handloading in 1972 under the guidance of Bond's Gun Shop, 24th & Indian School Rd in Phoenix. I haven't reloaded consistently since then, but am back into it now doing .380, 9mm, 10mm, .357 sig, .40 S&W, 38 spl, .357 mag, .44 Russian, .44 spl, .44 mag, .45 ACP, .45 AR.

It's great fun.

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Yep.

I pulled my first handle on shotgun shell reloading at age 3.
Over the decades, well, let me put it this way, in one location alone I had 11 shotgun shell reloaders set up, in gauges 12, 20, 28 and .410.

Only recently I finally got into reloading metallic.
 
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