Shoot, I've got close to 100k just in rimfire. I had 2 pallets of 7.62x51 at one point, but I've been selling a bunch of it off, and I probably have close to 10k of 8x57 most of it FMJ. Plus 4-500 rounds for everything hunting related in my safe.
My cartridge brass inventory just declined sharply last week..... Had 13 years of discarded brass from me & a buddy that I reload for, along with 13 years of range pickup stuff and all kinds of rimfire brass from myself & range pickup. Didn't count 'em all but the total weight at the scrap yard was 67 lbs. IIRC and I got 49 bucks for it. That was a lot of brass!
I was a pig gunner in Vietnam. A pastor friend of mine told me not long ago that folks like us will likely die in a hail of gunfire. I told him, so be it as long as I’m laying in a pile of hot brass. I figured that I’d go that way 50 years ago, but there’s still a chance...
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Dunno that nickel rates extra points, maybe MD will chime in on that. Point of comparison I have paper, plastic and brass shot shells, but eschew extra points for one or the other. Maybe extra points for pin fire brass, I get that.
Are you kidding?! Nickel brass is a PIA to prep--one piece should count as two...........;)
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Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively... Having said that, MAGA.
If you follow the typical pattern (not just mine!) it's generally two steps forward--and two steps back, or even three.
I do have a personal self-imposed limit on the number of centerfire rifles I can own, partly because there's only so much room in the safes. But often exceed it by one--or two or three.
Also, have no such limits on rimfire rifles, shotguns or handguns. Which may explain why I've been buying so many shotguns lately--though one of them also included a rifle barrel.
Eileen has no such limits, and while she isn't quite as much of a loony as I am, can hold her own pretty well. This year she has purchased two new-to-her handguns, a centerfire rifle, and yet another shotgun. (Her shotgun collection is larger than mine.)
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Fiocchi hull Fiochi 616 primer (the CCI standard also works, with no problems)
Ballistic Products SP wad
20.0 grains of Green Dot
With 3/4 ounce of lead shot, this gets around 1350 fps, and patterns very well.
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I'll have to put that one in my file, I don't have a lighter load for my 16 ga guns.
I use something similar except in the 20 ga to start very recoil sensitive shooters and dog training. I got the load from a buddy who developed it for the same reason as for Eileen. It originally consisted of whatever primer was handy and put into a Winchester AA hull. I used and still use the old Remington hulls that use the 57 size primer to distinguish them from "normal" loads. 12-13 grs of a fast burning powder such as Red Dot, 700X, Clays, etc., a Winchester AA wad, and the crush portion of the old Lage Uniwad with a 1/2 oz of shot. Nowadays, I use card and felt wads in the shotcup to get proper crimps. I've heard people using puffed rice or corn in place of the card/felt wads but I have a bunch of the latter to use up yet. Velocity was in the 1200-1250 range.
When the crimp portion became ragged, trimming the hulls to 2.5" was the next step. One also had to cut the crush portion of the wad at the halfway point, rotate the base 90 degrees and put back together. All the rest of the recipe was kept the same.
When the crimps became ragged this time, I gave the hulls to my buddy and he cut them down to 2". He used the shotcup portion of the Lage wad with cork or card overpowder wads to get proper height.
These were loaded on MEC 600 Jrs. Quarters were used to build up the height after cutting down the hulls. Today, one could use the 3"-2 3/4" adaptor plate instead of quarters.
This will work great in break action and pump guns of course (at least the 2 3/4" version) but I also found it will cycle my Beretta 390 with 28" barrel. It's not the most energetic but it has gone through a 100 bird sporting course without a hitch. The red or yellow exhaust spring from Cole gets the empties moving a little more energetically.
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