I have spent more in a year on cigars than I did on my basic RCBS kit back in 06.
What cigars do you like?
Don
I have spent more in a year on cigars than I did on my basic RCBS kit back in 06.
GE-Minigun said:It’s cheaper to reload than purchase…always has been and always will.
I once tried to calculate the savings, but it isn't worth the effort because the saving is pretty substantial. The simple math formal is: As a reloader, the more you shoot, the cheaper it gets; as a buyer of ammo, the more you shoot, the more expensive it gets.I have reloaded for 20 years and have most of my brass and powder saved and ready to go for some years! some people ask me if they should start to get into reloading for the cheapness of it!>I do not know what to say to them. powder, Brass primers and everything has gone through the Roof and there is a shortage all the time of one thing or another like everything else. Whats your thoughts
Can you translate this to plain English?As I have read> Reloading is DOA> other then having MUCH!!> Or the Time! and that is DOA>IN this world > Spec>the young people.
For me it is. I call it freedom. I can load what I want to shoot at my leasure, and shoot it when I want. I have enough reloading stuff set aside that I am good for years, so not dependent on store availability. In good times, I stock back up, so never at a time where I can't reload. I even got into .32 H&R magnum as my reloadable .22s when I 'did' get caught with my pants down with .22LR ammo a few years back. Now I am well stocked with .22 so that isn't even a problem. Did the same thing for my BP shooting components. So, yeah, reloading is a necessity for me . And yes, it may not be saving me 'X amount of money', but it allowing me to shoot alot more 'with X amount of money'.Reloading isn't really such a necessity any more
When I started reloading 357 Magnum in 1975, you could reload for about 1/3 the cost of factory ammo, even using jacketed bullets, and even less if you cast bullets and have access to free lead. But since eastern block ammo started coming in the late 80's, early 90's, it was cheaper to buy practice ammo than reload it, especially when considering the labor. I still reload all my 357 and 44 Magnum, 45 Colt, 44 WCF (blackpowder) and 44 Special. I reload a lot of black powder cartridges with cast bullets. But the price of premium, state of the art, jacketed bullets is getting ridiculous. Thank goodness for the little generic bullet makers out there.