Reloading saves money, and other boldfaced lies...

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LOL ! I was trying to improve my shooting by shooting more ! reloading allows me to do that ! but now when i miss i don't know if I dorked up the shot or the dorked up the reload !!
 
When you find yourself shooting off a couple of boxes just so you can try a different load, freeing up some space in the ammo box, needing the brass, then you truly have a problem. If you are mad that you have used up all the loaded ammo storage, all the plastic boxes, all the cardboard boxes, then you have a problem. Have you bought a new caliber gun not just so you can try reloading for it, then you have a problem. Load to shoot, shoot to load, not sure which category I fall into. It's all good, two hobbies that compliment each other. My wife is the only one that I had to convince that I was saving money, I was never fooled. Bill
 
Have you bought a new caliber gun not just so you can try reloading for it...
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I'm picking up .45ACP and .40S&W brass at the range even though I don't have a gun chambered for either cartridge yet. When their respective coffee cans get full, it'll be gun buyin' time. :)

(mostly I'm picking up scrap lead at the range lately, under the falling-metal-plate targets)

Bob
 
I read and posted in this thread earlier......Then I just HAD to go to the range (I would call this a suggestive thread...the OP must own a gun range). I just couldnt bare the thought of all of the brass going to waste. I put another 100rds through my Kimber, a few through my PT 145 and my GF put about 150 through her
PT111. I come up short on my brass but made out really good on hers. Its an indoor range and they dont really like it when you start hoggin up the brass. I was doing really good and then a RO come walking up. OOPS....I got busted in the act.....OH WELL...no biggie
 
the OP must own a gun range
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I wish.

Actually I don't. Outdoor ranges don't make any money, indoor ranges just flat suck. One of these days I'll escape california and get a few acres of my own with a nice berm....
 
Actually I don't. Outdoor ranges don't make any money, indoor ranges just flat suck. One of these days I'll escape california and get a few acres of my own with a nice berm....
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Thats what I am goin to do myself....The only problem with not goin to a public range is......NO FREE BRASS....other than what you have just put on the ground yourself
 
Almost spilled coffee into my keyboard again. Should be some kind of warning icon for funny stuff...

I've read several sources that say you have reloading disease bad when you go shoot just so you have some empty brass.

A guy I work with just got into reloading again, after several years absence, and he is collecting brass and bullets for .44 Magnum. Then he's going to get a .44 Magnum so he has something to shoot it in:)

I find reloading lets you create that "just right" load. The problem is, there is nobody to tell you when to quit! So, you can keep chasing just right for a long, long time.
 
Oh so true, I do spend more money on loading components, but I shoot 5 to 6 times as much ammo now, and I cast slugs for all my 45's now so rolling my own has become even cheaper.
I have also been know to go shoot 50 rounds of 454 just to free up some brass to try a new load because I got a new mold that makes cute little 340 grain hammer headed jobbies.
Have no fear, you don't have any disease or actual tangible problems. You are just becoming more thrifty.
 
I've read several sources that say you have reloading disease bad when you go shoot just so you have some empty brass.
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They have pills for that you know, I take 230, 180, 150, 124, 68, 60, 55 and 40 grain pills for mine. :D
 
I realized I was in trouble when I bought a gun just becuase I had cans full of brass for it. I really have no need for .45acp, I didn't really want a .45acp, but I did have 6 coffee cans full of bras, dang. found a set of dies in a pawn shop for 5 bucks, crap, now I have .45acp dies too. Of phoey, the gun shop had some close out 230gr .45 bullets, ok, gotta buy those. ok, have primers allready, hmmm, big sale on powder yousay? OK. Now I have everything to load .45acp but no gun in that caliber. Off to the store I go, "hey, mr gun salesman, sell me a .45acp would you!"

I goes on and on and on, now I have a pile of loaded 10mm and no 10mm to shoot them out of, same with .270, crap, I thought I got to buy tires for my bike this month. Errrr, got to visit the gun shop some time today...
 
I have yet to start collecting brass for a gun I dont have. Maybe it would be a good idea to start with the way prices are. If nothing else, I could use it for trade.

I do have dies for a 380 I dont own but they came in a package deal. Maybe I should start collecting for that since I have plans to get one in the future.

No its not a disease...BUT
You must admit.....
It IS a passion.....a very addicting one.

HECK....I found myself paceing myself on how much I load each night. It would be a crying shame to have enough stuff to load 500 rds just to run outta primers mid stream........that reminds me....I need to get me some more powder tomorrow.
 
Geeze... I start collecting brass for what I already own. Then I found it was easier to just collect all the centerfire brass I could and sort it later. Now I am looking at a 5-gallon bucket mostly full of 30-06 cases and another one almost full of .223 cases and I am thinking, which rifle should I buy next, a .223 or a 30-06? I already have a .308 rifle and the .308 and the 30-06 can take the same projos... hmm.... but .223 I can do on my progressive.


I just bought a mint condition Midway 1292 tumbler with the Midway separator & bucket and both lids PLUS 5# of corncob for $26. My wife says "Why are you buying MORE reloading stuff?" and she didn't want to hear what a screaming deal it was.
I don't know how I got along without a tumbler before now! It's almost hypnotic watching the brass waves swirling in the bowl. One pops up.... descends to the center...gone... poetry.

So I saved myself out of another $46 with UPS included.

The wife is getting POed because buckets of brass are taking over the den and the press and tumbler are in the dining room.

At this rate, I'm going to save myself enough money from buying a new pole barn to put me in the poorhouse. :eek:
 
I am saving myself so much money reloading I am eating mac and cheese and ramen more often .
 
You ain't got it bad until you wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night thinking that there's a STS or AA hull that you missed still sitting out the trap or skeet field all cold and lonely..........
 
I love this thread!

Makes me feel like I'm not the only one out there...:)

Only been loading since April or so, and only in 9mm so far & I've already got buckets of brass just waiting to be cleaned up.

I've been accumulating stuff to start loading for my .270 as well so I can work up just the deer load I want, and just the thing for coyotes and gophers too.

I've got 3 or 4 lbs of powder for the rifle, and at least that for 9mm, as well as about 2 years worth of primers for both. Haven't loaded a round yet for the .270, despite having bought a new single stage press for exactly that!

Today, I must admit I've gone a little overbaord.

A friend was getting rid of a few hundred rounds of .223 for real cheap, and another friend actually has a .223 (I don't...). I figured what the heck, I'll do him a favor, and pass 'em on to the guy that has a .223. But in the process I'll take a third of 'em for myself, so when we go shooting together I won't have to bum ammo from him. Then I thought, maybe I can start reloading .223, since I'll have brass... and what the heck, a loadmaster can do .223 anyway... so maybe... just maybe... if I can sneak the stuff for .223 into the house without the wife seeing it....! :p

Our minds can be dangerous and costly at times!:D

TFC
 
I collected a bunch of .40S&W brass at the range the other day. I don't own a .40. Never had the desire to. Does my collecting the brass mean that I will end up with one?

I'm thinking the odds are better than 50-50.

When I start collecting .264WinMag brass is when I'll admit I have a problem. :cool:
 
I fire my .44 magnum to free up brass, I'm guilty.


My components have always paid for themselves. I always buy enough powder/primers/bullets to offset the cost of buying new dies or equipment at the same time. It works, but I end up spending $100-$150 each time I start a new caliber. An investment up front pays off later.
 
if i ever saw brass for a gun i dont own or dont plan on owning i would still collect it to trade.

the other day i want to gander mountain to buy one pound of powder($30) and a box of primers($3) and on the way to the reloading seaction is the gun section, so i also ended up buying a new gun too, it was a good deal on a stoeger coach gun(12GA) for $100.00, so a $33 trip ended up being a $133 trip, maybe I could save some more money be reloading shot shells :D
 
And to save even more money, buy a second 45 & shoot with both hands! It's a hobby, no passion, I mean disease . . . my head hurts . . .
 
Have you ever woke up in the middle of the night just to make sure your press was ok? Ya know....not too lonely or cold??

YEAH....me niether
 
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