I was reading through a thread titled How many loads do you load for a given gun? here https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=612857 and post # 17 caught my eye
This brought up a couple questions that have been rattling around in my head for a few days now.
How do you guys manage your components? Do you buy and then load all you have? Or do you buy components and load to meet your shooting needs?
Also how do you buy your components? I know there are lots of philosophies on how much ammo you should have reserved for shortages. But how do you manage your components.
I find myself with adequate brass, primers, powder for the most part. Bullets however I find myself in much more of a hand to mouth kind of situation. for example 9mm. I generally load about 1000 fmj at a time. once I get down to about 500rnds I will look for more. for hunting bullets, like my 158g xtp for my 357, I think I only have about 200 total, of which about 50 are loaded up.
It is better to work up a load, and load all your components, or to load up what you need, and have the extra components around?
Typically, I’m trying to bring a set of components into tune. Once in tune, I load them all for use. Sometimes I get far enough ahead to do this twice for a gun….it is rare.
This brought up a couple questions that have been rattling around in my head for a few days now.
How do you guys manage your components? Do you buy and then load all you have? Or do you buy components and load to meet your shooting needs?
Also how do you buy your components? I know there are lots of philosophies on how much ammo you should have reserved for shortages. But how do you manage your components.
I find myself with adequate brass, primers, powder for the most part. Bullets however I find myself in much more of a hand to mouth kind of situation. for example 9mm. I generally load about 1000 fmj at a time. once I get down to about 500rnds I will look for more. for hunting bullets, like my 158g xtp for my 357, I think I only have about 200 total, of which about 50 are loaded up.
It is better to work up a load, and load all your components, or to load up what you need, and have the extra components around?