Reloading Goals 2020

[entropy]

Develop a 60 gr. Partiton deer load, and keep socking away 55 gr. FMJ's while shooting some to keep my hand in. And get the 1300 primed .45 ACP brass filled up.

 

[Muddydogs]

I used to do this early in my reloading career.
After nearly 10 years, I have built up a big enough brass stock I don't have to do that very often.

I want to concentrate on building up my lead supply this year.
I'm down to 160-170 pounds of ingots. I would like to at least triple that.

O I got the brass, something around 50,000 pieces of brass and 25,000 shotgun hulls. I got plenty to reload but I have plenty loaded and just need to shoot some loaded rounds so I can replace them.

 

[Hartkopf]

Buy more bulk and get costs down.

 

[Waterboy3313]

I spend several hours a week here and there working on various stages of reloading and usually a good solid day on the weekends. My goal this year is to buy more equipment that will speed up the process. I reload everything I shoot except for .223/5.56. out of the few AR rifles I have built. My 1st goal for the year is to start reloading the rifle ammo. I take pride in doing things myself so I think it would be pretty cool to reload my ammo for the rifles I have built from pieces.

My second goal probably won't happen this next year because I have too much planned. I have been planning on building a man shed probably about 12'X12' with heating and AC. The wife would come unglued if I was reloading in the house and the garage is pretty cold in the winter time. I figured it would be a small multi role place for me to hang out, do my loading and drink beer and increase my property value. The wife doesn't know about this yet.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

do my loading and drink beer and increase my property value.

But not at the same time!

 

[Chevelle SS]

1: Start reloading beginning with 38 Special.
2: Be reloading 357 Magnum, 7.35 Carcano, 5.56, and 30-30 by the end of the year.

 

[Hondo 60]

My 2020 goals are to shoot much, much more.
That gives me reason to reload more.

I've acquired several firearms over the last 6 months.
More workups, more chronographing, more tumbling, etc, etc...

 

[higgite]

My only reloading goal for 2020 is 2021.

 

[Axis II]

I have probably 2gal of 5.56/223 brass that needs primer pockets done, sized, trimmed and sorted.
I have 1k RMR TC MW that need loaded, but I need to find a good load of BE86 and HP38 for them.
Make sure 44mag and 45-70 loads are verified and loaded before the weekend before deer season.
Start a notebook of OAL, charges, etc. I currently use note cards and they are getting overwhelming.
Girlfriend now owns a 38 and 9mm so I need to find loads for them.
Setup the Lee Progressive that Livelife was so generous to send my way.
By spring all I want to do is shoot.

 

[GW Staar]

My only reloading goal for 2020 is 2021.

Not sure what you meant....but it fits me anyway! I've got to change my diet and exercise habits.....so I can see 2021....

Then maybe I will feel like loading and shooting.....and doing all the other "work" you guys want to do... I'm well on my way.... Never was addicted to tobacco, alcohol, or drugs.....but I found out Dr. Pepper and other carbo & sugar foods can kill you. Two months without.....and I feel way better. You all ought to try it.....beats the emergency room and hospital by a long shot. Looking forward to my next project....playing with new Lee tool after all these years of mostly green ones. APP.....

 

[higgite]

Not sure what you meant....

You caught my drift.

 

[HDMontana]

Buy more bullets to match my primer and powder quantities. I'm always picking up primers and powder when on sale locally. I have probably around 15 times as much as I have bullets. Also need to get out and shoot more this year. Father in law is giving my wife a .308 that he use to shoot competitively with. I will need to buy components to reload for that caliber.

 

[bullseye308]

Need to get more powder and primers and start a load workup on my new savage axis in 223 I found under the tree.

 

[horsemen61]

Your list is good but this should be #1 and should have been happening all along.

Record keeping is important to know what you have done in reloading in the past and what to do in reloading in the future.


I plan to...

1. Straighten up my reloading room. I've not been reloading much the last year or so and the room has gotten a bit disheveled.

2. Cast bullets and work up loads for my 38 Super Colt NM Gold Cup.

3. Load more shot shells (12, 20, 28 ga and. .410 bore) so that I can shoot more skeet. The shot nloads I like to shoot are not readily available commercially.

4. Finally work up loads for my new prairie dog rifle chambered in 22 Bench Rest.

Let me be clear I do log all my loads sometimes I just wait a few days to do it which I shouldn’t why it was number 3

 

[WestKentucky]

My reloading goal for 2020 is as simple as my gun goal for 2020 (just finish a stinkin project), but has one big kicker... the gun goal has to be met for me to start loading for the new caliber. Right now I have a barreled action for a 6.5 jap arisaka that I need to stub the barrel on, bore and thread the remains of said barrel to take an AR barrel (sans barrel extension) and stick a .450BM barrel on it. Once that’s done I buy a Boyd’s laminate stock, modify the stock arisaka bottom metal to take AR mags, buy a Timney trigger, and modify the bolt body to not have a huge twisty safety doohickey on it since the Timney has a totally different safety mechanism. I’m going to throw $1000 at what essentially boils down to a Mossberg Predator I could buy for $400...

 

[cfullgraf]

Let me be clear I do log all my loads sometimes I just wait a few days to do it which I shouldn’t why it was number 3

OK. A better explanation.

I'll admit that sometimes I do a large reload event over several days and I record the event as a single reloading session in my records.

As the cartoon says with the guy on the porcelain throne, no job is done until the paper work is done.

 

[entropy]

Need to get more powder and primers and start a load workup on my new savage axis in 223 I found under the tree.

A cheat sheet for you:
25.8 gr. BL-C(2), 55 gr. bullet of your choice, (everything I tried was pretty accurate, Nosler Ballistic Tip varmints were the best) CCI 400 primer, LC brass, 2.230" OAL.

 

[Toprudder]

For me: pick up a new caliber - or two or three.

I have been collecting my spent factory brass for 450B, and 224V, so those will probably be where I start.

Another goal for me is to use up some of the powders and components that I don’t plan to keep, and replace them with components I like. That means more trips to the range to unload, but someone has to do it.

 

[lightman]

The only thing new in my reloading future is that I will start loading for a new caliber, the 41 Magnum. I've had the pistol, a S&W Model 57, and a die set for a while. Not a big deal as I have loaded pistol ammo for many years. I'm currently shopping around on line for brass and a bullet mold. I'm probably going to order a Keith type SWC mold from Tom at Accuratemolds.

Having retired 4 years ago I've done most of the thinning down, re-organizing and catching up type stuff that most of you have mentioned. Almost all of my pistol brass is sorted, resized, tumbled and stored away ready to load. Most of my rifle brass has been sorted, deprimed but left unsized, tumbled and stored away. I'm way ahead casting bullets for my next big loading session for my handguns. All of my scrap lead has been melted and cast into ingots, marked and stored away except for the 400-500 pounds of wheel weights that I have scored this year. I'll have a smelting session sometime after Duck Season is over and before it gets hot.

All in all, I have enjoyed being retired and have tried to keep busy. Before I retired I had hundreds of pounds of unprocessed brass and thousands of pounds of scrap lead scattered around in boxes, buckets, coffee cans, ect. It took a while getting ahead of things. It was a lot of work but I enjoyed it.

I'm wanting to remodel my loading room. Kind of! Maybe replace my bench with some nice base and overhead cabinets. But my Grandfather originally built the bench that I'm using. So I have not decided on that yet.

 

[kmw1954]

I'm wanting to remodel my loading room. Kind of! Maybe replace my bench with some nice base and overhead cabinets. But my Grandfather originally built the bench that I'm using. So I have not decided on that yet.

I think I would be looking for a way to incorporate that old original bench into the new design. Or maybe even as a stand-alone bench.

 

[lightman]

It won't be discarded. It would be hard to incorporate it into what I want to do but it will probably move to the garage and either hold my tumblers or become a gun cleaning bench.

Grandpa built it and I learned to reload on it back in the late 60's. Its made from 1-1/4 inch pipe with angle iron on top of the legs for bolting the wooden top onto. I have reconfigured the top a few different times due to moves and changes in size of my loading area. But the frame is original.

 

[horsemen61]

Find a load for my 6.5 Grendel that shoots under an inch

 

[ParallelCode]

I have been reloading for less than a year and only have worked with 223. In 2020 I want to get some loads worked up in 9mm and 300 WBY Mag.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I picked up seven pounds of powder and 5,000 large rifle primers a couple of days ago. Lots more to buy before the elections in November.
I have been buying dies for lots of calibers that I might be getting down the road or for friends that might want to reload for.
I have been getting these calibers all set up for my two Lock n Load single stage presses.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Double the amount of loaded ammo already on the shelf for the upcoming Apocalypse.....