Anyone Else "Done" With Reloading?

Don't know about done but I thought I was caught up until my wife bought me a new rifle in a caliber I don't own. Now I have to start all over again.
 
Sigh.....I meant nothing "snarky", but I shoulda known I'd attract a "snarky" remark.

Is it not true that Lee stuff is the best way to get into the hobby with the least investment? Is it also not true that those who like to tinker, have the easiest time keeping Lee progressives purring satisfactorily.

My only point was, it is easier to quit a hobby least invested in. If I were on the outside of the hobby looking in, and wasn't real sure I'd stick, I'd start with Lee for the price.

Jmorris has invested more than anyone I know in the hobby.........and he'll never quit (nor quit investing in it), but if he did, I could never afford to buy him out!
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I was the one that purchased 40 pounds of dies and miscellaneous reloading equipment for $20.00. A reloader ahead of me removed and examined a bullet puller with a collet for 30 cal bullets that appeared to be stuck. He returned the puller and I paid the $20.00 because that one item was worth $20.00. I had no interest in hauling 40 pounds of metal around and then through the parking lot so I started removing all of the Lee equipment. I thought it was a nice gesture, on the other hand he made it very clear he did not charge me for the Lee stuff, he said he threw it in as a kind gesture. So I ask the reloader that past on the bullet puller to help get all that iron and metal to my P/U on the back side of the parking lot. Before I got out of the building I offered all of the Lee stuff for free to a major dealer in reloading and equipment, not interested.

I do have Lee equipment, I do not use it but I have it JIC (as in 'just in case'). And I certainly do not want to get into it with a member of this forum that has a hero. Forum members get ugly when they feel threatened or vying for attention.

F. Guffey

REBS, I have started taking pictures, so far the pictures weigh 3,000 pounds.
 
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I still enjoy it along with casting bullets. Started doing both in 1967. Have always enjoyed it.

I am done with mowing the lawn !
I've hated cutting grass ever since I had to do it to get my $2.00 a week allowance.
My wife enjoys yard work and kindly relieved me of that job...I started cooking supper every night...I like to cook !
Gary
 
After 20 years of reloading, I would rather shoot a 22, were no reloading is required. OK - not quite true - I do have to reload the magazine when it is empty
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Why is that ? You start a thread and don't participate :confused: Hey I thought I saw this thread closed a couple days ago ???
 
As previously suggested, I expect I'll be done with handloading when I'm done with breathing. If, however, robotics continue to evolve to home use as they have been, the day may come when I program my machinery to load for me and deliver the result to me at the range by drone. That way I can pitch a tent by the firing point most of the year.

I use handloading is the broader term, as it includes both reloading as well as loading newly purchased brass that was never previously loaded. Reloading thus is the subset of handloading in which brass that was previously loaded is employed; hence the re prefix, same as in redo or repeat or recycle. Most handloading done in this country is reloading for the simple reason that most brass lasts for more than one load cycle. Most reloads are therefore in brass that was previously both loaded and fired. A smaller number of reloads are in brass that was previously loaded, but was pulled down before it could be fired.
 
Dang, that is even better than Bill parsing of the lingual.

Me, I call it reloading though my wife says I am wrong when I say unthaw to, she can be annoying at times.

Me, I hate reloading. I like to shoot. Sadly its the only way that gets me there with the accuracy I want and can afford.

So to paraphrase someone, the day I stop reloading is the day they pry the dies out of my cold dead hands.

I do like the magical thing about the auto loader that then delivers to the range, though I guess I would have to go home to eat as no concessions at the range (they put on a good lunch though and I may work that out!)
 
So to paraphrase someone, the day I stop reloading is the day they pry the dies out of my cold dead hands.
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RC20, I try to avoid those cute little sayings because I do not know what kind of a life members on this forum have outside of this forum. I got a call from a friend telling me about a writer, machinist, and maker of dies that died. I was asked if I had any interest and it was very clear his wife needed help selling his equipment. When I got there I found there was not much I could do, he had close to 70,000 pounds of lathes, mills, grinders etc.. and then there were tools stacked upon tools and cabinets full of every attachment for every tool in his shop. And then there were micrometers, gages etc..

I felt helpless when it came to helping her but I did make suggestions. I purchases a height gage identical to one Clark has, I ask; "How much?", they were asking $50.00 for it. I explained to them that was not enough.

The man had no guarantee or promise of tomorrow, just like me, I do not want to leave my family in a position of having to deal with what I have spent collecting and putting together all of my like. They have already informed me they are not interested in most of it. And then there are projects that need to be finished; I have to get very busy.

And then an old friend called to informed me he wanted to give me a cabinet, when I got there he asked me to clean out his shop. He died a short time later and the family did not have to deal with selling his equipment, guns and components. Most of that went to my son and grandsons.

F. Guffey
 
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I never had the desire to reload until my wife bought me a Lee progressive for Christmas a few years back. Since then im addicted. It has become therapy for me. I just zone out of reality and zone into the reloading! Lol As for me I will never be done!
 
Anyone Else "Done" With Reloading?
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Yep my Dillon and all that goes with the press along with powder, primers, and what ever bullets I had left are at the curb. I quit, done, with reloading:eek:
 
do it by hand

Ed, you make a somber point.

Anyway, I've been reloading (AKA handloading) since I was 17 and still going strong at my advanced age.
I simply enjoy the process and find it relaxing. Somewhat frustrating lately with the difficulty getting the components I prefer, but even that frustration makes one research other avenues to achieve the similar load results.
 
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Ask your wife if she doesn't have one of those unthawers built into the refrigerator? Mine does. We keep the ice cream in it. :D

Incidentally, if you want powder to last for centuries, that's the place for it, too.
 
done

I thought I was done.....but went shootin yesterday...now dang it...I got to reload.....seems just wrong to have empty cases just sittin on the table...having all the components on hand to rectify the situation....got to thinking....this old RCBS press has made how many strokes up and down since...1974.....
 
Been reloading since 1969. Slowed down allot these last few years. But haven't given up. For me the need to sit at the bench now comes in spurts. As does my bench rest Range time.
BTW; Center fire rifle & pistol is all I ever toyed with at the bench.
Have absolutely no interest in shooting rim fire nor ever cared too. Although I have some of the best shooting pistols for doing. S/W mod 41 & a Browning Medalist w/weights.
When the time comes I can no longer get around well. My hope is that my son will come and take all the reloading tools I've acquired over the years and carry on the tradition. If he doesn't ? Surely the shooting club I've been a member of for well over 20 years will. If that happens. (to the Club) I hope a young club member wanting to reload gets all those Green tools & Mec Sizemaster's so's to give whom ever a good bump start in the hobby.
 
Done with reloading? Nope! Never... Until I am six feet under that is...

As for rimfire, it 'used' to be 'cheap' practice ammo for fun shooting (hip shooting, etc.). Now since it is unobtainium, reload .32 for this and back off on the amount I shoot.
 
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