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My reloads in 9mm are way more accurate than factory.
If you work up a load for a 9mm varying seting depth in .005 increments once you have found the best powder charge, get ready for a really great surprise in how small the groups will get with the 9mm.
I shoot tight group 124-130g cast
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Dude...you ain't trying to hit a golf ball from 1200 yards either!!
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Shotshell reloading is worse, at least for 12 and 20 gauge. If you aren't overly particular about shot hardness, there is no way you can reload and save money, especially if you count the reloading tools. 28 and .410 are a different story.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
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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. Humorous. What I needed. Many thanks.
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Tumbling dirty brass, resizing, priming, charging, and producing a loaded round with every pull of the handle on the 550, until I have a bucket full.
Knowing that every damn one will group a nickel size hole at a hundred yards.
Love every minute of my time at the loading bench.
I could wish a lot of things on my worst enemy but neuropathy ain't one of them.
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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. Your pricing is a little high. Titegroup should be about $31.00 per lbs. 1600 rds per lbs. Primers should be about $30.00 per 1000. Berry's plated are about $85.00 per 1000
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Tumbling dirty brass, resizing, priming, charging, and producing a loaded round with every pull of the handle on the 550, until I have a bucket full.
Knowing that every damn one will group a nickel size hole at a hundred yards.
Love every minute of my time at the loading bench. I like reloading too. Casting...not so much. Thankfully, cast bullets are cheap and readily available now. Tweren't always so.
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What kenlguy said. It's therapy for me.
I'd rather die in a BAD gunfight than a GOOD nursing home.
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Yea, right. Try buying ammo for my .41Mag, 444 Marlin, 22 Hornet, 45/70, .410 & 17 REM.! The only way I can afford to shoot & enjoy these is to reload 'em.
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Yea, right. Try buying ammo for my .41Mag, 444 Marlin, 22 Hornet, 45/70, .410 & 17 REM.! The only way I can afford to shoot & enjoy these is to reload 'em. Sure, but thats your fault for shooting interesting guns and cartridges.
I am MAGA.
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That's nothing, deer meat costs us about $65 a lb! I laugh any time someone claims they're hunting because they need the meat. It is simply not an economical way to obtain protein sustenance.
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Yea, right. Try buying ammo for my .41Mag, 444 Marlin, 22 Hornet, 45/70, .410 & 17 REM.! The only way I can afford to shoot & enjoy these is to reload 'em. Sure, but thats your fault for shooting interesting guns and cartridges. It is pretty hard to reload economically for most common pistols and even blasting/plinking small rifle prices. I can crank out 223 cheap enough on an auto-index, but no way I would feed my AR from a single stage.
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Yea, right. Try buying ammo for my .41Mag, 444 Marlin, 22 Hornet, 45/70, .410 & 17 REM.! The only way I can afford to shoot & enjoy these is to reload 'em. Sure, but thats your fault for shooting interesting guns and cartridges. That's just how this gimpy old fart rolls, Big Jim!!
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Wideners, Armscor 124 FMJ, they went up to 135.00 for 2000. So 67.50.
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Yea, right. Try buying ammo for my .41Mag, 444 Marlin, 22 Hornet, 45/70, .410 & 17 REM.! The only way I can afford to shoot & enjoy these is to reload 'em. Sure, but thats your fault for shooting interesting guns and cartridges. probably 30 years ago, i bought a super redhawk in .44magnum. It was soon after that i discovered reloading and the cast bullet 429421. now it's probably 40 or more moulds for different calibers.
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That's nothing, deer meat costs us about $65 a lb! I laugh any time someone claims they're hunting because they need the meat. It is simply not an economical way to obtain protein sustenance. there is an old cult movie called "rancho deluxe" pretty easy for some to pop a cow in the field with an electric chain saw.
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You’ll tire of it at some point.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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That's nothing, deer meat costs us about $65 a lb! I laugh any time someone claims they're hunting because they need the meat. It is simply not an economical way to obtain protein sustenance. Depends on how you hunt, stepping out your back door and getting a Whitetail is pretty cheap, taking off to hunting camp for a week isn't.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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You’ll tire of it at some point. Seems like in 37 years I haven't.
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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