One Year progress in handloading - post yours too

[vaalpens]

In a previous post I indicated how many rounds I have loaded over the last year with my one year anniversary coming up on September 26.

All my reloading has been done on a single stage Lee Classic cast, using Lee dippers and weighing each round. My press is mounted on 3 x .75" shelving and clamped onto my credenza. This was supposed to be a temporary solution, but I am still using it after nearly one year.

 

[PJSprog]

This was supposed to be a temporary solution, but I am still using it after nearly one year.

Same with my Lee Reloader (C-press) I bought in 1990, just to try that reloading thing. I'm still loading on it 25 years later. If it works, it works, vaalpens.

 

[jaysouth]

A neat uncluttered bench is the sign of a sick obsessive mind.

I started reloading in 1962. The first 30 years was one year's experience 30 time over.

Now I do a little bit better than that after getting into casting(a black hole that subsumes your mind and soul) and powder coating. My total investment in dies, progressive presses, single stage presses, and turret presses, dies, molds, melters, meters, and a couple of hundred pounds of powder, thousands of primers and several thousand bullets is near 20K.

Sure beats watching TV. Even better, I am passing all this on to my grandsons. They have to load every cartridge they shoot, the quantity of which is astounding.

 

[Hardtarget]

I didn't know I was supposed to be keeping track. I feel like I'm running behind!

I've noticed the most loading has been .223 with a bit of .38 spec. , .30-06 for the M1, and a bit of .45 acp.

I've got to pick it up a bit!

Mark

 

[ku4hx]

I've been loading and casting since 1970. There were unavoidable interruptions, but generally I'd shoot a couple of hundred rounds per week for most weeks of every year. I guess there were a dozen or so weeks in every year I didn't shoot.

Adds up after a time and that's one reason I stopped looking at cost many years ago. It's a hobby.

 

[jaysouth]

SWMBO, "how much money have you spent on all this crap" while surveying my shop.

ME, "less than you spent on shoes in the last 40 years"


Discussion ended, but I got the evil eye for a couple of years.

 

[zalex820]

On the 29th it will be my first month reloading and I have made a whole lot of progress (I think) I had made around 200 .308, 400 .233/5.56, 200 of .45 and 9MM. I had just finished building a shelf for my work bench and now have so much space I don't know what to do with it lol. here it is

 

[cat_IT_guy]

now have so much space I don't know what to do with it lol

I bet that doesnt last long . I remember thinking the same thing only a few months ago. Now Im scheming how to expand my storage as I've accumulated more bullets, powders, etc.