I finally figured it out----the shoot to reload question or the opposite that is.

[FROGO207]

I finally figured it out-----I do shoot to reload. The great component shortage has caused me to slow my reloading to a virtual standstill. Now I no longer feel the need to shoot up my stash until the components are readily available again. That proves to me that I do indeed shoot to reload. took me 30 or so years and a couple shortages to figure it out though. Guess I am a slow learner. Do you do the same or do you reload to shoot?

 

[dab102999]

I reload to shoot. but being frugel has been pasted down by many generations to me and hard to get past that. But with that said my kids believe that they have to shoot every shell that we take out so makes for interesting conversations some times. I have come to the conclusion that they can shoot as much as they want as long as they are showing me they are progessively makeing themselfs better and more profficiant. When I see they are just trying to see how many mags they can throw the gun goes up for a bit and the single shot comes out...lol

 

[wally]

I reload to shoot. I love to shoot steel, 200-400 rounds in a typical outing at the plate rack. I've cut way back on the .22lr to conserve most of what I have left for my wife to use.

An hour on the Dillon gets me about an hour and a half of shooting (including picking up the empties).

Powder has been about as hard to find as .22lr, but I'd stocked deeply in reloading supplies in anticipation of my retirement and thought having ~55K .22lr on hand before Sandy Hook was "plenty" -- wife and I had been shooting about 2K .22lr per month and buying replacement ammo every month until suddenly there was no replacement ammo

 

[jamrock]

I reload so I don't run into availability of ammo issues and save money over factory ammo so I can shoot more events. If I could buy ammo at the price I reload, I wouldn't bother to spend time reloading, I would use the spare time to dry fire or shoot.

 

[Vodoun da Vinci]

I love to shoot and find it takes me about 200 rounds to have a proper practice session...I try and practice 2X a month. The only way I can afford to shoot that much 9mm, .38, .357, .32 and now 380 and maintain the proficiency level is to reload.

I'm not shooting any factory ammo anymore as I simply don't have the right "experience" when I shoot anything other than my rounds. I am a control freak and really enjoy the whole cycle of shoot, harvest brass, examine and prep brass, reload to my precision level with my choice of bullets (I can't buy ammunition to my spec), and shoot again.

I am not sure which comes first....I think I reload to shoot but to me really at this point I think it's all just shooting sports/SD training as I cannot separate the functions. I won't shoot anything but my personal rounds and I don't reload for any other reason than to provide specific ammunition for my guns. if I could buy what I wanted? Then I'd have to wonder how to afford about $200+ worth of ammo per month.

VooDoo

 

[Schwing]

chicken or the egg....

I shoot to reload and reload to shoot and do neither when I run out of $$

 

[40-82]

You may have a point about shooting to reload. Yesterday for the first time in many years I went with a friend to a public range instead of shooting at the bullet trap outside of my backdoor. Nobody else was there at the range but us, and every time I went downrange to check targets I stepped back to the berm to make sure that I picked up more lead than I sent downrange, and as a courtesy to the people who owned the range it seemed only decent to carry off all the loose brass I found on the ground.

 

[cfullgraf]

I finally figured it out-----I do shoot to reload.:

Before the executive branch induced panics, I figured out long ago when I ran out of storage space for ammunition, I enjoy reloading. I used to load up every empty cast that I had. Then the withdrawal symptoms would kick in if I could not get out to generate some empties.

Now, I just replace what I shoot keeping a small back up inventory of loaded ammunition on hand. I fill my time with other worthwhile activities.

 

[blarby]

I reload to shoot- but its very hard to tell which one I enjoy more.

I like it so much I do it for others too, as well as casting......

 

[floydster]

I enjoy re-loading as much as shooting--it's a win, win situation

 

[Lj1941]

I love them both-Either or both.

 

[rchery59]

It's a wash for me, I love both too !

 

[Jesse Heywood]

Only my hairdresser knows for sure. And she's not complaining, there's less to cut every month.

 

[up 2 snuff]

I am new to THR. I really enjoyed this thread. Thanks

 

[rfwobbly]

I don't shoot or reload. I simply buy components.

 

[OrangePwrx9]

I reload to experiment. Always trying to make what I've got work better. Thus the quantities tend to be small as I don't want a bunch of ammo on hand that isn't optimum.

If a load works OK with a given powder and bullet, then next time around I may try a little less or a little more powder...or a different seating depth. Doesn't make sense to load more than 50 rounds at a time when you have to visit the range to determine if you're heading in the wrong direction.

Then, after visiting the range, the process starts over again.

So, while I say I reload to shoot; the reloading stops until the shooting proves out the load.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I predominantly reload to shoot. I am shooting my reserve of reloads and sometimes when I look at those heaped up tubs of empty cases on my loading bench (like now) I just think holy mackerel, when will I have time to load those.

I am definitely buying another LNL-AP without/case feeder, this year so I can keep up to shooting habit. I used to take up to 4 calibers of pistols to the range with me once a week. I just simply don't have the time to reload all those shells so I started concentrating on taking one semi-auto (my ccw) and one revolver and discovered my overall accuracy went way up. I think it was to many different grips and triggers were making me worse instead of better. Either way it worked out for me accuracy wise and reduced my reloading. A heavy work load at home (remodeling) and at work, with callouts takes it's toll on even our most favorite hobbies.