Old Guy Tip: Reload!

[Catshooter]

For those of you who's life is getting in the way of reloading, remember, none of this stuff has a shelf life. Coat all the steel stuff in a rust preventative and pack it all away. Those kids will someday be grown, college will end, and with luck you might even retire someday.

Do you think that in 25 years all that stuff will be cheaper? Easier to get? I shoot with guys that remember IMR 4895 at 50 cents a pound, primers were $2. A thousand.

So even if you think, naw, I'll never want to do this again, I say pack it all up and keep it. You just might. Or a child may.

For those of you on the fence of should you or should you not reload, if you have even a little mechanical ability and can follow directions: buy the stuff now. Even if you don't have time now or in the foreseeable future. The future has a way of arriving and it'll never be cheaper or easier to get. And might be much more expensive and way harder to get.

Plan ahead. When the Obama years started I had just shy of 150,000 primers on hand. Do you think I worried about how much I shot?

Legionnaire is spot on in his post as are most here.


Cat

 

[John Joseph]

Handloading will be even more important to Californians when the State licensing and ammo tax schemes kick in. As it is we are banned from ordering ammo directly off the internet so case lots for competitors and uncommon calibers for collectors are pretty much unobtainium unless you can find it locally at a good price,

 

[fpgt72]

I have not read all the comments so if this has been covered already....sorry.

If you are into older and odd ball things reloading is really the only way to go. You are not going to find 7.7 jap, 7.5 french....or other odd ducks like this on the shelf at walmart. Some things like Carcano by partizan has the wrong sized bullets in them and you will be rolling a pea down a fire hose.

It is not hard, and it is actually pretty darn fun, and it really can make a difference.