Nice Round Numbers

[HKGuns]

Ok, here is a silly question.

I like to load rounds by the "hundred". Indeed, my press is set up to do 100 or so primers at a time. Boxes hold either 100 or 50......However, due to some stroke of bad luck I always find myself with 49 good bullets out of 50 or perhaps 98 or 99 if doing 100.

How do you guys go about keeping the numbers nice and round? Do you keep a container of primers just for odds and ends to fill a box of shells?

 

[dakotasin]

i just keep enough crap around that i never run out. anytime i'm around a reloading store, i'll pick up 1000 primers of whatever i can't remember buying recently (yesterday it was fed 215's)... i pick up a couple boxes of bullets too. same deal - whatever i can't remember buying recently gets picked up. powder is a little more tricky. i try to keep closer tabs on powder because some powders get used up a whole lot faster than others. rl-19 (300 wsm) rl-22 (300 win mag, 338 win mag) and rl-25 (25-06 and 7 rem mag) i buy frequently. a pound of one of these every time i get close to a store, plus whatever i'm running out of (was h-380, varget, and rl-22 yesterday - next time it will be rl-25, and the time after that the cycle begins anew w/ rl-19).

 

[The Bushmaster]

Like Dakotasin said...Stay ahead of the game. If your wife can go shopin' so can you...

 

[HKGuns]

I have plenty of primers. I just hate taking one out of the box to complete a box of 100 when I've lost, or ruined one. The box I pulled the single primer from is now short one primer and it cascades across as I reload more.

I guess I just need to reserve a box of primers for odds and end use.

Dakotasin, what powder do you use for 300WSM and where do you get your brass?

 

[trickyasafox]

the trick is to load ammo loose into bulk boxes, and that way your not even sure when you hit an even number and you can stop at any point with ease

 

[Corey ACP]

Load until you get tired, distracted, the wife finds you, the game comes on TV, whatever.......I never keep track of how many I load in a sitting. Everything gets dumped out of the cartrige bin into either a canvas bag or a plastic bucket depending on caliber. I never load with a specific number in mind. I can start and stop loading on a moments notice.

I keep pounds of powder on hand as well as thousands of primers and slugs. I also find it boring and time consuming to put all those bullets into the holes in those plastic boxes.

When I go shoot, whether to plink, a match, or to practice, I just grab the proper bag, or bucket and go. When I'm done, I'm done, I pick up whatever emptys I can find and head home. If I still have loaded ammo, (usually) so what? Don't get too caught up in the numbers routine. Remember, It's supposed to be fun

 

[dakotasin]

shoudek- rl-19 for the 300 wsm. brass probably came from cabela's (i use win brass for the wsm). if it didn't, i know they carry it.

wouldn't worry about the one primer thing. next time it will be 5, then the time after that you'll have 15 bullets to pull... i'm happy when i empty a box out... because then it is clutter that i can toss to make my reloading area neater. of course, next time i'm at the store, i get 10x more stuff to clutter things up. ahh, well, if this is the worst thing that happens to me in my life, then my life isn't so bad!

 

[HKGuns]

Ha, thanks guys....I guess I'm being too anal retentive. I "do" like to be organized though....I load 100 primers into the tube. Pick out the shiniest brass and put them all into those little plastic boxes to take to the range. When I get back from the range I dutifully write down the number of rounds I put through each pistol.

Thanks for the dose of reality, it will take time for me to recover from this, one small step at a time I guess.

 

[The Bushmaster]

What?!? Shoudek...You callin' me anal? I load in 50 round lots because that's how I package them. In little red plastic boxes with dividers for each round and I load 50 to 100 primers in my Lee Auto-Prime II...Anal???Me?? How about precise instead of sloppy and unneat....

I also have packets of primers in odd numbers for the times (rare that they are) that I must replace a (oops) damaged primer.