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Proven again that I can gain no ground reloading:
I bought a Loadmaster in 9mm. I figured I could load up several thousand and have them when I need them. No damned way, NO DAMNED WAY! For the love of God I can load up a damned bucket full and I will shoot it all, every round, in a weekend. My G26 and my Sig P250 subcompact are getting one hell of a workout.
I had the same experience with 223 when I tried to load a supply. I bought 3000 bullets and powder and primers. I just could not get ahead of the curve, the AR-15's just got hungrier. But I figured this is a progressive, yeah, nope. It's like giving a beer drinking alcoholic a bottle of Jim Beam.
There is no hope for me, the compulsion and addiction is just too much.
The older I become the more I am convinced that the voice of honor in a man's heart is the voice of GOD.
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Me too. I feel your pain.!!!
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So.....all along it wasn't teenagers doing all the wasteful blasting.....causing ammo shortages.
It was frustrated boomers.
Figures.
I am MAGA.
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Much as I understand the satisfaction of doing it myself, I no longer reload 9mm.
I found that after buying the powder, bullets and primers, total cost was actually a little more than turning all my brass over a local guy who reloads for a living and supplies his own components.
$200/thousand for him to do it,
$55 lb for powder
$55/1000 for primers
$120/1000 bullets =
$230/thousand for me to do it.
Got better things to do with my time.
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scrounging brass on the desert, 9mm brass is all over the place. casting lead bullets takes care of that part. about 2.50 a box to reload it that way. but given you can buy it for about .19cents a round, does not really pay time wise to do it.
you can buy all kinds of factory ammo for less than 200dollars a thousand.
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I enjoy reloading. It’s a hobby. I also like to work up a good Accurate load in my handguns just like I do for rifles.
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Much as I understand the satisfaction of doing it myself, I no longer reload 9mm.
I found that after buying the powder, bullets and primers, total cost was actually a little more than turning all my brass over a local guy who reloads for a living and supplies his own components.
$200/thousand for him to do it,
$55 lb for powder
$55/1000 for primers
$120/1000 bullets =
$230/thousand for me to do it.
Got better things to do with my time. Figures in Canada. Powder= 12.50 per 1000. Primers= 30.00 per 1000 Bullets = 64.00 per 1000 So at 200 buck per 1000 I would be paying almost double.
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I like reloading, something to do.
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Yeah, I see the point.
We are told that reloading will "Save us money" too. Casting your own bullets saves us a LOT of money..........right?
NOPE!
What we'll do is spend what we have to spend. Reloading and casting just lets us shoot more for the budget we have. Shooting that much more is VERY good for our marksmanship skills however, so I don't complain about that.
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That's nothing, deer meat costs us about $65 a lb!
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I like reloading, something to do. I'm going to keep reloading anyway. It's my kind of therapy.
The lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!
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The Rule of Space is: "Junk accumulates to fill the available space. Adding more space just causes a proportional increase in junk." What we're seeing here is simply a corollary: "Ammunition expenditure increases to consume the available ammunition. Increasing the available ammunition simply causes a proportional increase in expenditure." No worries, you're just following the natural order of things... 
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Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! I also quit reloading for the most part. Except once in a while for fun. I enjoy it. What's the point when a box of factory shoots as well and lasts me 2 or 3 years, and kills all the meat I can eat,if I can find the critters. You poor bastids...... 
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That's nothing, deer meat costs us about $65 a lb! Hahaha! Yeah....no schit.
I am MAGA.
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Dillon 1050 ! (Factor in THAT cost and it really makes NO sense !)
Last edited by keith_dunlap; 10/11/19.
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Reloading makes sense for my 6.5 x284
Not for my 9mm
I can get 9mm ball plinker for less than $9 a box
Pick and choose
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It just isn’t worth the effort to reload 9mm or .223 to just blast a hole. Most of my favorite hunting rifles have factory ammo with the same bullet and similar velocity to what I load for as well. Not cheaper necessarily but I can load blasting ammo for those when I feel the urge.
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It all depends what you shoot and how much. I reload nosler whatever at about .40 a round vs $2 to buy it. Magnum handgun or even 9mm/45ACP HP loads at about 1/2 price. I'll buy 9mm, 45ACP, .223 fmj because it's not worth reloading right now. Plus I keep enough stock not worry about shortages, remember when .223 was going for $1 a round
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