What do you reload?? Select calibers/guns or EVERYTHING?

What do you reload?


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blackd24

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Everyone has different reloading tendencies. What do you reload for? How many are reloading the “cheap” 9mm now that weren’t before?

I think there are different groups.. shotgun, revolver, semi auto, long range/hunting, and then the people that reload everything.
 
I've only loaded a few 410 shotshells and one 12 GA, but pretty much everything else. I try to have components and gear for everything I shoot. I didn't plan on loading for 9mm and 7.62x39 in any volume, but nowadays it is making sense. Especially since my x39 ammo is for a bolt gun.
 
I have reloaded for it all. Lately it's been for the odd-ball stuff I tend to drag home, mostly BP cartridge. No 577 Snider at Big5.

It's been years since I reloaded for shotgun.
 
"All of the above".

If I have a firearm chambered in it, I have the equipment to reload for it except for 16 ga. and 9 Largo.

I usually am actively loading a half a dozen different cartridges or so at any time. It depends on what I'm shooting.
 
I started reloading for both 9mm and .223 this year... previously loaded for revolvers and deer rifles. Pandemic drove me to it, just to make sure I'd have the ability to have ammunition should the well completely run dry so to speak.
 
380
9 X19
38 Special
357 Magnum
40 S&W
44 Magnum
.223/5.56 NATO
6.5 Grendel

I started reloading 3 years ago including 9x19 not because it was economical but because handloads can be more consistent and accurate than factory 9 mm. After hand loading, I can only conclude its true that handloads can be more accurate than factory. Groups are 1/2 the size of factory WWB.
 
all the magnums and rifles, except the combloc stuff that likes to eat steel case. The way things are going I'll buy dies for those too, for just in case.
 
380 Auto, 9mm (9 X 19 ), 38 Special, .357 Mag., 40 S&W, .44 Rem. Mag., 45 ACP, 45 Colt, 460 S&W, and .357 Herrett.

Apparently, mostly hand gun cartridges, but have loaded 30.06 and am set up to load a number of other bottleneck cartridges if the need comes up, along with 45/70 & 30-30 Herrett plus others that I don't recall right now.

Some do not get made much, like the 357 Herrett, probably have a life-time + of those on hand............( I got too wound up having fun in making a wildcat cartridge and didn't know when to stop!) ;)
 
I voted all of the above, but I have backed off of the handgun and shotgun some. I don't shoot enough of either to really make a difference cost wise. When I was shooting competition I loaded everything. Now I do have everything I need to load for most of my guns, including powder and primers.
 
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