How do you guys keep your handgun hand loading cost down and still afford to shoot a lot?
I've been trying to stock up on reloading supplies as my budget allows....my credit card can definitely vouch for that!
I'm reloading for 1911 45acp
How do you manage to salvage your brass from you semi-autoes?
I seem to do a decent job of recovering my brass at outdoor ranges, maybe losing 10% of my brass.
However, when I'm shooting at indoor ranges, I have terrible time recovering my brass. The shooting booths are small and brass always seems to take bad bounce where I can't recover.
I only got to shoot IDPA one time this year with my 1911, and wasn't able to recover my brass there either.
Is losing brass just the price you pay for shooting a semi auto?
I'm buying once-fired 45acp brass to help keep my costs down.
For bullets, I'm thinking of buying Berry's bullet or hard cast lead bullets like rimrock. Seems I can get almost 2x bullets for same price as fmj.
Any tips the veteran hand loaders can give to help push my costs down?
I'm serious thinking of switching to shooting my 357 mag revolver. At least I won't lose my brass!
