Shoot a few-Load a few vs. ????

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Travel has a lot to do with how people function. Load and shoot at home, going to be more often with less volume. The range is an hour each way, the amount on hand will go up as the number of rounds shot will also. I have more tests loaded than some posters total volume listed let alone determined good loads...

Our area is shifting from rural family farms to a blend of residential homes, like us, commercial farms and commercial residential developments. The HOA’s are pushing to outlaw the use of firearms within hearing distance of the neighborhoods. The commercial farms are joining them. Both are majority owned by outfits in the northeast. They have the money to buy huge tracts of land and politicians. We’re running out of rural land to live on.

That has influenced my decision making as far what to load.

 

[Mr_Flintstone]

Our area is shifting from rural family farms to a blend of residential homes, like us, commercial farms and commercial residential developments. The HOA’s are pushing to outlaw the use of firearms within hearing distance of the neighborhoods. The commercial farms are joining them. Both are majority owned by outfits in the northeast. They have the money to buy huge tracts of land and politicians. We’re running out of rural land to live on.

That has influenced my decision making as far what to load.

That’s the one good thing about living where I do. There‘s nothing here that’s remotely attractive to the left wing bozos.

 

[Barmcd]

I keep two thousand rounds of each caliber I shoot, 1000 factory rounds and 1000 handloads. The factory loads are divided between self defense loads and target ammo. I almost exclusively shoot my handloads and If I shoot a hundred rounds at the range, I load a hundred replacement rounds. I shoot weekly with a group of 15 and we're always trying out each others guns. Its surprising how many different guns 15 people can own. I won't let anyone but me shoot my handloads, so If I bring a 9mm gun to the range I'll bring a couple hundred handloads and a box of factory rounds.

 

[horsemen61]

I like having components on hand I don’t like having a bunch of stuff loaded because I load for specific firearms my ammo isn’t one size fits all its Custom For Me….. for a specific Firearm so I can’t just plug and play it I’d rather have the stuff and make the ammo if I have to

 

[bigpower491]

I usually load a couple hundred handgun cartridges per caliber at a time. When I get down to the last 50 or so, I'll set up and replenish the stock.
Rifles.....usually have 100 of each caliber on the shelf at all times. Don't go thru near as many

 

[thump_rrr]

having four distinct seasons, I typically shoot pistol indoors during the winter and rifles, outdoor in summertime.

Loading on a progressive press with a bullet and case feeder I try to do batches that will last me a year.

I cashed most of my bullets in October and November then I start loading first with 9 mm then with 45 ACP followed by 357 magnum and 44 magnum.
I typically do 5000 each of 9 mm and 45 ACP and around 1000 each of 357 magnum and 44 magnum.

By Christmas time I set the press up to prep then load all my 223 brass.

Precision rifle brass is prepped and loaded as it is used in batches of 100 200 or 300.

 

[mstreddy]

I load in batches and fill up the shelf or the ammo can. I mostly shoot 9MM, so it's the most I load and the larger batches. As I'm running low I run the next batch.

9MM - 1000 - 1500 round batch
45 ACP - 500 - rounds
.223 - 1000 rounds
38 Spcl - 500 - 1000 rounds
357 Mag - 200 - 300 rounds
308 - 200 - 300 rounds
30-06 - 200 - 300 rounds
32 ACP, 32 SWL, 380 ACP - 200 - 300 rounds
Other cartridges 50 - 100 rounds

 

[Barmcd]

having four distinct seasons, I typically shoot pistol indoors during the winter and rifles, outdoor in summertime.

Loading on a progressive press with a bullet and case feeder I try to do batches that will last me a year.

I cashed most of my bullets in October and November then I start loading first with 9 mm then with 45 ACP followed by 357 magnum and 44 magnum.
I typically do 5000 each of 9 mm and 45 ACP and around 1000 each of 357 magnum and 44 magnum.

By Christmas time I set the press up to prep then load all my 223 brass.

Precision rifle brass is prepped and loaded as it is used in batches of 100 200 or 300.

I'm on the opposite schedule here in Texas. Air Conditioning is a wonderful invention.

 

[jmorris]

Depends on the caliber but I don’t keep a ton of loaded ammunition. The stuff I shoot most, it only takes the machine around 52 minutes to load 1000 rounds anyway.

 

[hdwhit]

I have loaded just about all (about 125 rounds) of 25 ACP that I am ever likely to load or shoot.

I try to keep about 100 rounds of .38 Special and about 100 rounds of 45 ACP on hand. I tend to only load these as I run out since the guns had belonged to my grandparents and so are not shot all that often.

I load .223 Remington continuously as my whole family shoots it and that means the amount on-hand varies from a couple hundred to nearly a thousand.

Finally, I have 195 rounds of 5.56 Johnson and until I finally resolve my problems with reloading it, that's about all that will be loaded.