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Post by Quick Draw McGraw on Mar 27, 2020 19:09:58 GMT -5
My local gun shop was low on EVERYTHING, and they wanted $40 for 50 rds of .45 ACP. So I wandered over to the reloading section where they had 500 Hornady FMJ 230 grain bullets for $105. I bought 500 Federal 150 primers and I had a pound of Titegroup.
The result was reloading 500 rounds of .45 ACP that cost $14 for 50 rds. I also loaded some 158gr. Hornady XTP .357 Magnum cause I didn't have enough JHP in that caliber. 600 rds loaded in the last week.
Also, I am a 10mm fan and had NO trouble finding ammo for that. People mocked me for liking obscure rounds, WELL LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING NOW! 😂
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Post by bradshaw on Mar 28, 2020 9:33:29 GMT -5
My local gun shop was low on EVERYTHING, and they wanted $40 for 50 rds of .45 ACP. So I wandered over to the reloading section where they had 500 Hornady FMJ 230 grain bullets for $105. I bought 500 Federal 150 primers and I had a pound of Titegroup. The result was reloading 500 rounds of .45 ACP that cost $14 for 50 rds. I also loaded some 158gr. Hornady XTP .357 Magnum cause I didn't have enough JHP in that caliber. 600 rds loaded in the last week. Also, I am a 10mm fan and had NO trouble finding ammo for that. People mocked me for liking obscure rounds, WELL LOOK WHO'S LAUGHING NOW! 😂 ***** Folks have told me the same thing, to the effect that shelves are stripped of 9mm Luger ammo, while the once-meteoric .40 S&W remains available. News via the jungle drums; haven’t been out except to bike, tromp snow, throw lead. It’s no news to the marksmanship crowd that handloading comes highly recommended. David Bradshaw
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Post by sixshot on Mar 28, 2020 10:19:30 GMT -5
Anyone who shoots handguns had better learn to reload, that or have a rich father in law! Plus, that's half the fun of shooting handguns, working up different loads without breaking the bank.
I honestly cannot remember the last time I bought a box of factory ammo, it would have been in the 70's or 80's. I have some but it's ammo that's been traded for or picked up at a yard sale, estate sale, etc. The brass case is expensive, why leave it laying on the ground? Buy a bullet mold, a Lee bullet sizer, a decent press & dies, scale, measure, dial calipers & at least 2 good reloading manuals & you're up & running!
Dick
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gsp7
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Post by gsp7 on Mar 28, 2020 11:47:17 GMT -5
I reload and dont by ammo . I have never bought rifle ammo in my whole life.. I did buy 9mm ammo though.
Brass, bullets, and powder
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Post by Stump Buster on Mar 28, 2020 12:00:14 GMT -5
Using the downtime to try and prep all my brass so I just need to fill and plug later on. Brass prep is my least enjoyable step, so I hope to get it all knocked out over the next couple weeks.
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Post by wildcatter on Mar 28, 2020 12:54:06 GMT -5
Anyone who shoots handguns had better learn to reload, that or have a rich father in law! Plus, that's half the fun of shooting handguns, working up different loads without breaking the bank. I honestly cannot remember the last time I bought a box of factory ammo, it would have in the 70's or 80's. I have some but it's ammo that's been traded for or picked up at a yard sale, estate sale, etc. The brass case is expensive, why leave it laying on the ground? Buy a bullet mold, a Lee bullet sizer, a decent press & dies, scale, measure, dial calipers & at least 2 good reloading manuals & you're up & running! Dick Absolutely Dick, not only that, they are missing the FINE in ammo as well. My last commercial ammo was two cases of Wolf 22 LR, one Match Target, and one Match Extra, after testing dew different lots of those types of ammo. But even then, it's got to go thru the press to make it all it can be! Proper nose profile, bumped to proper diameter for the particular hand gun, and of coarse a better firmer crimp,,,, If I don't manicure it, I just don't shoot it! I do carry Law enforcement ammo in the DW Valor V-BOB for PP. But load 230 hp to duplicate them for practice.
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banger
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Just a shooter have over 50 years of it love to shoot .
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Post by banger on Mar 28, 2020 14:30:28 GMT -5
First Post and in Indiana . Been a Reloader for over 50 years Mostly Revolver and 44 Mag is it . I live in the country have a range 50-100-200 yard and shoot a lot . First Ruger a 41 Mag 7.5 inch barrel at 14 years of age . Spent 40 plus years shooting Trap and retired from that just getting to old and it was down hill anyway . I shoot Ruger Revolvers 4.5 inch and three screw I have 5 of them All 4.5 inch . If I did not reload I would go nuts .
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kelye
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Post by kelye on Mar 28, 2020 15:46:12 GMT -5
Welcome banger!
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Post by ezekiel38 on Mar 29, 2020 13:07:02 GMT -5
Welcome to the crew Banger, you're among friends here.
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Post by harold89 on Mar 29, 2020 17:01:19 GMT -5
Great post. I love hand loading. If all I could shoot out my 45 Auto was factory 230 ball I’d probably go broke or sell it 😢. It’s fun watching folks shoot one of my 83s with a mouse fart load. They’re dumbfounded by the accuracy and lack of recoil. So much fun 👍.
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Post by wildcatter on Mar 29, 2020 20:04:04 GMT -5
230 cast hardball or I prefer 200 grain cast SWC with 4.0 grains Bullseye is about as cheap a ammo as I load, as well as 150 gr. cast HP in 38 special. both run the same 4.0 grains of one of the least expensive powders I can buy, and will load over 1550 rounds for one pound of powder.
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banger
.30 Stingray
Just a shooter have over 50 years of it love to shoot .
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Post by banger on Apr 3, 2020 19:55:21 GMT -5
Unique looks a lot like corn Flakes Started using it years ago . I did try other powders always go back love it . I load 12,000 240gr coated cast per year buy from SNS casting just good people . I get 1,000 240,s each month .
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Post by contender on Apr 4, 2020 8:03:56 GMT -5
As a poor, enlisted man in the Army in the mid 1970's, I knew that the only way I could afford my fun habit of shooting was to reload. So, I began my journey. Now, decades later, I'm still enjoying reloading, and all the pleasures of shooting my own loads. Like Dick, I haven't bought factory ammo for a long time, except for rimfire stuff. I too acquire some factory stuff in odd places like estates, auctions, boxes of whatever, given to me etc. I look at it like it's eventual brass for my own ammo. Heck, I was even at a well known ammo manufacturer's plant back in 2000, and had done the owner a favor. He wanted to give me some of his ammo, and I politely informed him of how I didn't need any as I reloaded & I didn't shoot factory stuff. In no uncertain terms, with very colorful language, he told me I was going to shoot some of HIS stuff. He proceeded to harangue me until I mentioned a few calibers I enjoyed, (and felt I could use more brass in!) He proceeded to fill a box with several boxes of his excellent ammo for me. I still have a lot of it.
In reloading, I learned long ago to buy in bulk any components I use frequently. 8 lb jugs of powder, cases of primers, and bullets in bulk (of the ones I don't cast for.) Ammo shortage? I haven't had one in decades.
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Post by bagdadjoe on Apr 4, 2020 10:55:06 GMT -5
I handload...ammo has never *been* scarce. ;-) I used to tuck away a brick of 22 every time I went to the local store back when Lyin' Bill was in the drivers seat...still flush.
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Post by dougader on Apr 4, 2020 20:22:53 GMT -5
I have several guns that have never seen a factory loaded round... 41 mag, 44 Special, 44 mag, 45 Colt, 480 Ruger...
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