Have you ever had all your brass reloaded and ready to shoot at one time?

[plodder]

As I scan my bench (s) I find that I am starting to amass a pretty large quantity of brass. I currently reload for only .223, 25-06, 270, 30-06, .357 Mag., 45 ACP. In spite of my best intentions I never have everything loaded and ready to go.

Is anybody out there better organized or more settled on their favorite and needed loads than I?

 

[rcmodel]

I have never even came close to having it all loaded at the same time.

Nor would I ever want too.

I have excess brass and shotgun hulls stored in 4 & 5 gal buckets & 50 cal ammo cans I won't live long enough to ever load or use.

For that matter, I have reloaded ammo in enough quanity I won't live long enough to ever use.


rc

 

[Steve in PA]

I generally do the bulk of my reloading over the winter, so come warmer shooting weather, I will have all my 9mm, .45acp and .223 reloaded. I usually have about 2k 9mm, 3k .45acp and about 4k .223 all loaded up to go.

Of course I have much smaller quantities of .38spl, .44mag, .30/06 loaded too.

 

[HOWARD J]

I have about 10000 rounds reloaded
About 5000 more waiting to reload.
A lot of shells for one guy----I doubt that I will ever shoot all of them.

 

[LiveLife]

Have you ever had all your brass reloaded and ready to shoot at one time?

<Looking at 5 gallon buckets of brass in the garage>

All of them? No way.

Most I have done was about 5,000 reloadings of one caliber for a large family/friends shoot. I took about 10,000 rounds of combined reloads in various calibers and came back with sore but happy wrists and very very sore fingers from loading some of those rounds in mags!

 

[FROGO207]

Many many years ago when I was starting out reloading there were times that I had all my brass filled and ready. Thousands of rounds of handgun , hundreds of rifle, in various calibers. NOW-------If I did that the local authorities would be thinking I was going to start an illegal ammo dump. These days I try to keep at least 1-2K ready processed brass in each caliber ahead so I can load em up for whatever my special needs will be just when I need them. Also this requires less of a stock of propellants and primers on hand as I only need to reload to replace what I use these days. I try to keep what I plan on using for 6 months assembled ahead of time. If the economy ever rebounds I will go back to a one year supply ahead.

One of my firearms is a 45 ACP MAC 10 and when shooting with a bunch of friends we can go through a five gallon bucket of reloads in a couple hours at 30+ rounds a MAG. Lots of fun but it takes a WHILE to recharge the bucket for another outing.

 

[cfullgraf]

I always have a stock pile of new brass waiting in the wings for when the brass in use gets lost or fails. Also, I like to have some empty brass on hand for trial projects.

I have had all, or most, of my brass that is in use loaded on occasions.

 

[kingmt]

I have brass that I don't even have the gun or dies for. I picked the last 2 guns I bought because of the brass I had on hand. I load for 3 different guns that have never seen factory ammo. I even load for one caliber that I have never owned. My wife is happy to unload 9mm as fast as I can load it. Then there is pails of brass around here I don't even know what is in them.

 

[jcwit]

I'm with rc model, have no idea what I'd do with it all.

 

[El Guero]

You guys who loaded more ammo than you figure you could shoot, was that your intention? Second, do you want to send some to me?

 

[brickeyee]

1000 rounds!!!!

I have over 10,000 .45 ACP shells alone.

And around 4,000 22-250 shells. I cull them for .22-250 AI by sorting on neck thickness variation ad weight variation.

At least 4,000 .223 rem and the same number of .30-06.

I do not even want to think of how many of other calibers are hanging around.

 

[1SOW]

I've amassed over 20K 9mm cleaned and tumbled cases.
I try to keep 1K loaded rds ahead of my 9mm shooting avg--250/week.
I'm down to 800 now, so I need to get back to work.

I'm retired, enjoy reloading and enjoy shooting rds I reload.

 

[Blue68f100]

I have had over 5k rounds of 9mm earlier this year. And all of my 45acp 800+ rounds loaded. I reload the 9mm when I get below 1000 rounds. With the LNL-AP w/brass feeder reloading large quantities do not take a lot of time, at a leisurely rate of 600+/hr. I have enough supplies to last for several years.

Being retired I shoot close to 5k rounds/year.

 

[thorn-]

I keep about 300-500 rds of 9mm loaded at any given time, and maybe 50rds per caliber for everything else.

I have thousands of empty brass; I couldn't afford the components it would cost to load it all at once.

thorn

 

[tlmkr38]

Well when I first started I probably did as I didn't have alot of brass and only a single stage press.. Now..... My arm wouldn't hold out to pull the lever that much.

 

[Seedtick]

I couldn't afford the components it would cost to load it all at once.

+1 Me too.

I don't have a drop in a bucket upside a bunch of ya'll but it would take a wad of greenbacks to load all of them.

Seedtick

 

[helotaxi]

More than 1k of 9mm loaded and about that in prepped brass.

Probably 2k loaded .223 with at least 1500 pcs of empty brass with another 1k on the way.

About 50% of my .45Auto brass is currently stuffed.

Very little .357, .38 or .45C loaded right now.

Only about 100 rds of .308 loaded, maybe 15% of the brass that I have.

More loaded .243 but a good bit more brass for it as well.

About 500rds of .204 Ruger loaded and 200 or so sitting idle at the moment.

6.8SPC is 25% loaded.

I *think* all my .308MX is loaded ATT.

.300 BLK is 20% or so loaded.

 

[GLOOB]

Gosh, no. That would require the perfect alignment of the moon, sun, and earth, which would only happen once in a few thousand liftetimes.

More specifically, I don't tumble brass unless there's enough to tumble. I don't size and prime, except in multiples of 100, which is the size of a tray of primers. And I usually don't load rifle ammo until I have 100 of the same headstamp.

 

[Bush Pilot]

You guys who loaded more ammo than you figure you could shoot, was that your intention? Second, do you want to send some to me?

I'm glad you posted, I've been looking for someone to send my surplus ammo to for weeks.

 

[Bush Pilot]

I have about 10000 rounds reloaded
About 5000 more waiting to reload.
A lot of shells for one guy----I doubt that I will ever shoot all of them.

You really should have put a smilie after that not being able to shoot 10,000 round comment.

 

[Cmeboston]

I try to keep as much as i can ready to go.I have about 600 rounds of .308 brass in circulation at any given time. I load for my m1A I only get 4 resizes out of each case. So upon the fourth resize I load with surplus powder and bullets and put them in to the stockpile. I try to keep 100 pieces available for new load development, 100 for match loads and the rest get loaded with surplus for shooting steel.
I don't think I'll ever get through all of my .40 on my single stage press but plan on getting an LNL soon so hopefully I can keep up!


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[beatledog7]

No, not even close. The closest at the moment would be 45/70 Gov't, of which I have only about a dozen empty brass. Several hundred each of .223, .38SPL, 9mm, 40S&W, .357, .44 Mag and .44SPL in various stages of prep. A double handful of 7Mag as well.

Can't imagine not having brass around to work. A few minutes here and there prepping brass and loading, and I usually manage to shoot and reload at about the same rate.

 

[Rollis R. Karvellis]

I'm always playing around so I, probaly will never have it all loaded. Part of my hording is to have pleanty put away for when I, stop driving, and get a part time job, it will be nice to only work for 40 hours a week, and go home eveyday.

 

[jmorris]

No. Although I have a lot more than 10,000 total rounds loaded (have more .22 than that) I am also in a constant process of picking up brass, sorting, cleaning, annealing if its bottle neck and shooting. So having it all loaded will never happen. If I open the last 5 gallon bucket of the rounds I use competitively I look at that as "low on brass"

 

[Revolver218]

When you live in a very cold (Winter) climate, and can't get to the range due to snow and cold, you spend a quiet winter reloading the amount you need for next years shooting. You can base this on what you consumed last year. In the summer, with all the other outdoor activities, you might not want to spend time indoors reloading.