Palladan44
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This will go both ways, 10:1 on either side.
For me, I spend 10x more time reloading than I do shooting. This is considering all 4 seasons. It's not because i shoot all the rounds i reload 10x faster than they can be loaded, it's simply that handloading is easier to do on a daily basis from the comfort of home. I find it just as enjoyable. Its time alone away from all the other "noise" from daily life.
This is also evident in money spent. Call it the last 15 years... I spend more $ on components than I do new firearms. Hands down.
It's ironic too, because when I got into reloading it was simply for the interest of saving money to shoot expensive calibers to me at the time like [chuckle] 357 Magnum. The truth is, if all the money spent on reloading went toward factory ammunition then I'd probably shoot all dozen or so of my 357s loose before ever running out of ammo.
Money savings after all isn't why most of us do it.
I remember once I got my first hundred of 357 mag cranked out on my Dillon 550B I felt about the same as If I had just discovered a 50$ bill printing machine.....
For me, I spend 10x more time reloading than I do shooting. This is considering all 4 seasons. It's not because i shoot all the rounds i reload 10x faster than they can be loaded, it's simply that handloading is easier to do on a daily basis from the comfort of home. I find it just as enjoyable. Its time alone away from all the other "noise" from daily life.
This is also evident in money spent. Call it the last 15 years... I spend more $ on components than I do new firearms. Hands down.
It's ironic too, because when I got into reloading it was simply for the interest of saving money to shoot expensive calibers to me at the time like [chuckle] 357 Magnum. The truth is, if all the money spent on reloading went toward factory ammunition then I'd probably shoot all dozen or so of my 357s loose before ever running out of ammo.
Money savings after all isn't why most of us do it.
I remember once I got my first hundred of 357 mag cranked out on my Dillon 550B I felt about the same as If I had just discovered a 50$ bill printing machine.....
