I need to join caliber anonymous.

[Riomouse911]

Welcome to Enablers Unanimous.

We are a support group famous for encouraging members old and new into: enlarging your collections, expanding your caliber selections and improving your experiences with firearms of all shapes and sizes.

I’ll have to admit that as an active member of E.U. I have been enlarging my collection and improving my experiences with new additions, but I also have been limiting my caliber expansion after adding four more to the menagerie in 2019; 7mm Remington Magnum, 6.5x55 and in handguns the .41 and .32 H&R Magnum.

I load for 18 rifle and pistol calibers already, and I shoot many more that I don’t reload for, so I have passed up buying several guns in calibers I don’t already own over the past year or two. This is simply because my reloading/shooting/experimenting time is being limited by kid-related extracurricular needs… and, quite honestly, the cost and hassle of locating pandemic-era components for something new or oddball is just not fun anymore.

If things mellow out in the near future I may take up new cartridge challenges, but for right now I’m standing pat on my current caliber list.

(Oh, earlier today I saw a .44/40 rifle listed for sale on the Kittery Trading Post website if that helps .)

Stay safe.

 

[BigBlue 94]

here’s a confession: I have (3) sets of 5.56 dies

Was putting my new 357 Herrett dies in the cabinet, when I realized I already had a set. I needed 30 Herrett!

I have two sets of 30-06 dies, but one is a neck sizer and one is a FL sizer.

 

[cfullgraf]

I have a couple of rifle die sets where I have two seater dies, one set up for a single stage press, the other set up for a progressive. 204 Ruger, 223 Remington and 300 Blackout.

I do not need to re-adjust the dies when I want to load on a different press.

Note, I do ALL my rifle re-sizing on the single stage press.

I have multiple die sets for 44 Mag/44 Spl, 38 Spl/357 Mag, and 32 S&W/32 S&WL/32 H&R Mag/327 Fed Mag. Again, no need to re-adjust dies to load a longer or shorter cartridge.

The only other multiple dies I have are ones that I've purchased replacements for some reason. I've kept the old dies for spare parts of other dies.

 

[Soonerpesek]

Note, I do ALL my rifle re-sizing on the single stage press.

I have multiple die sets for 44 Mag/44 Spl, 38 Spl/357 Mag, and 32 S&W/32 S&WL/32 H&R Mag/327 Fed Mag. Again, no need to re-adjust dies to load a longer or shorter cartridge.

AMEN Brother....!!!!!.....

 

[brutus51]

here’s a confession: I have (3) sets of 5.56 dies

Think your missing some .223 dies.

You know your a caliber junkie when you convince yourself that you need to get a 10mm just to get the most value from your 40S&W dies.

 

[Soonerpesek]

You know your a caliber junkie when you convince yourself that you need to get a 10mm just to get the most value from your 40S&W dies.

HAHA........yes........but I ended up buying another set of dies so I didn't have to change 'em........

 

[Riomouse911]

Think your missing some .223 dies.

You know your a caliber junkie when you convince yourself that you need to get a 10mm just to get the most value from your 40S&W dies.

Guilty!

I did that by buying .454 Casull dies for loading .45 Colt… then I ended up with a second set of .454 dies…and another set for .45 Colt… after all that I finally got a revolver chambered in .454 Casull .

Stay safe.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Think your missing some .223 dies.

You know your a caliber junkie when you convince yourself that you need to get a 10mm just to get the most value from your 40S&W dies.

and bullets! they use the same bullets ! lol

 

[HowieG]

What stops the addiction is you get old. Old enough that you see the end coming and you run out of space and desire for new stuff. Any new stuff, not just guns. And you run out of your capability to maintain all the stuff you have. That's what stops it. I haven't bought a new gun in a different chambering in, well, in three months. But that's it. I'm done. Really. Unless I see a 44-40 I can afford. But other than that, I'm done. Really. Yep, that's it.

 

[brutus51]

What stops the addiction is you get old.

I disagree, forgotten discarded calibers can become new again because you forgot you once had it.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

I disagree, forgotten discarded calibers can become new again because you forgot you once had it.

Ummmm…. Yeah. Guilty.
Carcano. Nuff said.

 

[HowieG]

I disagree, forgotten discarded calibers can become new again because you forgot you once had it.

I only have two discarded calibers and I retained the ability to load for them, at least I think I did. Now, what the heck is the combo to my gun safe??? Doesn't matter because my jeep is parked in front of the safe and I can't find the keys.

 

[brutus51]

Just finished reading another article on the .500 Jeffery and the .505 Gibbs now those are some He-man calibers.
Only problem is the rifles cost more than my truck and I'm figuring about $10 bucks a round if you reload.
Granted you would probably only shoot one round at a time but at my age the shoulder surgery alone puts a dapper on the desire.