Guest shooter88 Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Does anyone here reload? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Re: reloading Yup.... Just started. I thought about it for a while and finally picked up the Rock Chucker off of ebay. I got several dies with it and a few bullets (Hornady, .243). Ive already done the math and I will save a little on .243 rounds. Im also going to try my hand at varmint rounds! Im going to start reloading .30-06 pretty soon. I have the brass, I just need to get the bullets. I have a few dies I may never use and thought about putting them up for Sale. Im pretty sure I will never own a .222 and have my doubts about a .22-250. I like it. Ive been reading every chance I get trying to soak this all in. So far, so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Re: reloading I do and have been doing since my uncle got me started about 50 years ago! It is a great hobby and you can tune a load to your specific rifle! Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wmramse Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Re: reloading I've been reloading for about 3 years now. So far I only reload for my .270 and .30-06, but may be adding an NEF Buffalo Classic in .45-70 to my cabinet by the end of the year. Can't wait to put a tang sight on it and see what it can do at 600 and 1000 yards Never shot that far before, but I bet it's a blast with tang sights! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
257bob Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Re: reloading I have been reloading rifle cartridges for nearly ten years. The cartridges I have reloaded include .223, .257 roberts, 7mm-08, 25-06 improved, 30-30, 30-06, 300 WSM, and 300 RSUM. I have just gotten started loading handgun rounds this year for a 44 mag. I love it. I would love to get into benchrest shooting in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wthomaslee Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: reloading Yes, but I have a love-hate relationship going with it... I love it AFTER I figure out what my "new" rifle likes. I hate getting all the small things lined out. Five rounds of this and that gets old to me very quick. Cases, primers, powders, bullets, trimming, turning, tempature, and wind make me like that guy on the Avaitor. This loaded round is going to be the wave of the future, wave of the future, wave of the future..... ha ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_218 Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Re: reloading [ QUOTE ] Does anyone here reload? [/ QUOTE ] Yes, for about 40 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: reloading Have been reloading for 25 - 30 years. Load for every metallic cartridge I shoot. When I buy a gun, I buy the brass, bullets and dies at the same time. Currently loading for: 221 Fireball 222 Rem 220 Swift 270 Win 7mm STW 30/40 Krag 308 Win 30-06 300 Win Mag 7.62x39 32 Spl. 9mm Para 38 Spl. 357 Mag 375 Wby Mag 40 S&W 10mm Auto 44/40 44 Spl 44 Rem Mag 45/70 Govt. I think that's all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Snider Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: reloading reloading is definetly the way to go if you have the desire to get everything out of your gun you can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Re: reloading [ QUOTE ] Ive already done the math and I will save a little on .243 rounds. [/ QUOTE ] After much thought, I think I'm going to get into reloading myself, not only for the accuracy, but for the savings also. A friend of mine who reloads explained it to me like this. If you reload correctly and precisely you can't figure on saving by the cheap $13 a box 243 ammo that is put out by the factory. If you do it right, you should be doing the math on the supreme loads that run $23-$30 a box or even like a $40-$50 a box custom load if you do a lot of work getting the perfect load for your gun. For a relatively tini bit of change and time you can go from the bottom of the barrel ammo to the best stuff on the market. I think that's the key to reloading as I understand it at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7th Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Re: reloading I have been loading 40 years now and I can not say that you save a dime. What you do is just shoot a lot more and that makes you a better shot and the loads are better and so on and so on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Re: reloading Relative to the dollar savings of re-loading................Do any of you assign a dollar figure to your time? If you put any value on your time, and you are doing a real careful job of reloading the most accurate shots you can, I really doubt that there are any dollar savings involved in reloading. The other consideration is the value of the equipment required. Start amortizing that over the cost of each box of reloaded ammo. What justifies the activity for me is that I completely enjoy reloading and for me it is all part of the recreation. So the time spent is really quite cheap. But if I had to boil it all down to dollars and cents, I think reloading would wind up a losing proposition. For example, if I was reloading as a business, people probably wouldn't want to pay what I would have to charge in order to make a decent profit. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Re: reloading I don't look at the cost of reloaded ammo at all! What I look for is the most accurate load I can get and that is from reloading! Reloading beats sitting on your butt in front of a TV set! Now that is an expense waste of labor!! LOL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Re: reloading I think another great benefit of re-loading is that it gets you out there shooting more. Who builds bullets just to look at them sitting on the shelf in the box? Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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