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I have managed to scrounge dies for everything and reload, the exception being a 9mm I just got. 9 is absurdly popular right now so there are no deals on dies. Components run nearly as high as factory anyway. I am experimenting using a.38 die with some success. 45-70 is the only thing I have never bought factory ammo. I took one look and decided dies, brass, and bullets came to around $60, when a box of 20 was 35t or 40.
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28ga 20ga 12ga
.204 .22hornet .222 .223/556 22-250 .243 6mm .257robts. .25-06 257 wby 6.5 Grendel .260 7BR 7-08 7rem mag .270 300blk .30-30 30-06 300H&H 300win 300wby 30-378 338 win 375H&H 45-70
.380 .9mm 38 357 357 sig 44spl 44mag 45acp 45colt
Probably forgot one in there somewhere. I started on my own with the pacific/ Hornady kit around 1986.. back when we had to read books to learn this there was no internet and I knew no one else that reloaded that was alive.
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Shaman, good to see you're up and about this morning. Hope you have a good day.
I Thanks. I'm up. I'm also in that in-between phase where the motivation to do things is returning, but I don't have the stamina to stay at the reloading bench long enough to get anything done. I have now been officially retired since 10 May, and my last shot taken was my gobbler on 22 April. It took over a month and careful planning to get the damn shotgun cleaned. What really irks me is that I acquired my Brown Bess in January, and I've barely got a dozen rounds through it. I also have Mooselette's Marlin 336 on the bench. I tried to mount a new scope on it day-before-yesterday, and barely made it out of the basement. ARRRRGH! The only good news is that Moose dropped by with a pawnshop find: a minty 32 cal flinter squirrel rifle. I put a patch down her yesterday and it came back clean; it may have never been shot. Together, we put together an order at Track of the Wolf for the essentials. He and I are planning a fall squirrel hunt. He'll bark them off the limb with the rifle. I'll lay down area-denial rounds with the 'Bess.
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with handguns, I shoot factory only in .45 ACP and 9MM. I load my 10MM and all my revolver cartridges. Center fire rifle, I shoot factory in .270, .30/06 and .243 Win. I load my .30-30, 7x57 AI, .223 Rem. Shoot a lot of milsurp 5.56x45 and 7.62 commie. I load my hunting loads for the 7.62 commie.
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38 speacial 357 mag 44 mag 22 hornet 222 223 243 7-30 waters 7-08 300 blackout 30-30 308 30-06 300 Winchester 300 weatherby 444 marlin 45/70 12 gauge
Ha! Forgot the 7.7 Jap Had two , both were excellent shooters One in 06 that shoots .311’s awesome
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I hunted mostly with a shotgun when I was younger. I loaded my 20 and 12 gauge shells with Lee Load alls. There was an ammo scare and a lot of gun ban talk then so I bought components and tools to load rifle and pistol for everything the family owned. Never set up a place to load until 15 years ago. Once I did I started loading rifle and Pistol. I am glad I did. My ammo performs better than what I can buy and it costs much less so I shoot more. I quit loading shotshells because My wingshooting amounts to a couple of dove hunts a year. I have loaded: 20 and 12 gauge 30-06 300 Wby 308 35 Whelen 30-30 243 38 Spc. 357 Magnum 270 223
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"... Also have Remington M48 and a Savage SxS in 16, so the MEC does get some use. Wads are hard to find though. Holy smokes, the last time I saw 16s in factory loads, they were $15 a box! ...:
I have a Rem "Sportsman", two Win M12's, a Steven's and an "Elsie", all in 16 gauge.
I constantly keep my eyes peeled for 16 gauge ammo - ANY loading!
We "snow bird" in south Texas every winter. Found 16 gauge ammo in a feed store in Falfurrias, TX. Found ammo at a old M&P gun store in Bishop, TX. Academy at Corpus Christi nearly always has a few boxes of 16. It's all a bit pricey, but I scrap my pennies together and buy a box or two along.....but I don't shoot a lot either. Kids ought to have a pretty good store of ammo by the time I'm gone! 😉
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Shaman, good to see you're up and about this morning. Hope you have a good day.
I Thanks. I'm up. I'm also in that in-between phase where the motivation to do things is returning, but I don't have the stamina to stay at the reloading bench long enough to get anything done. I have now been officially retired since 10 May, and my last shot taken was my gobbler on 22 April. It took over a month and careful planning to get the damn shotgun cleaned. What really irks me is that I acquired my Brown Bess in January, and I've barely got a dozen rounds through it. I also have Mooselette's Marlin 336 on the bench. I tried to mount a new scope on it day-before-yesterday, and barely made it out of the basement. ARRRRGH! The only good news is that Moose dropped by with a pawnshop find: a minty 32 cal flinter squirrel rifle. I put a patch down her yesterday and it came back clean; it may have never been shot. Together, we put together an order at Track of the Wolf for the essentials. He and I are planning a fall squirrel hunt. He'll bark them off the limb with the rifle. I'll lay down area-denial rounds with the 'Bess. That’s awesome, keep on ! Kenneth
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I buy lots of unprimed brass. The last actual loaded ammo I purchased was for a newly purchased 25-06 when I was working four hours from home and could not wait three weeks to shoot the rifle.....1982. And, of of course USGI Lake City 57 through the Garand when shooting DCM. Some of my favorite brass.
I have loaded and have dies for: 327 Fed/32 H&R 9mm 38/357 10mm/40 smith 22-250 22-243 AI 243 260 7-08 308 6mm-284 25-06 270 30-06 7x57 6mm Ren 264 Win mag 7mm STW 300 Win mag
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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.22 Hornet .222 .223 .22/250 .220 Swift .22 Savage HP .243 .244 .257 .257 AI .25/06 .25 Gibbs .264 WM .270 .280 7MM Remington Mag .30 WCF .308 .30/06 .30 Gibbs .7.62 X 54 .32WCF .44 WCF
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I reckon I'm not very loony!
.38 Spl .44 mag. .308 Marlin Express
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Not as many as some, but a few. 12 gauge 20 gauge 410 223 243 257 bob 25-06 257 Weatherby 6.5 creed 6.5-06 264 win mag 26 Nosler 270 270 WSM 270 Weatherby 7mm-08 7mm Weatherby 7 mag 7mm ultra mag 300 savage 308 win 30-06 300 WSM 300 H&H 300 Weatherby 300 ultra mag .333 OKH Belted 338 win mag 9mm 40 S&W 45 acp
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Handgun: .38 Special .357 Magnum .41Magnum .44 Magnum .500 S&W Magnum .40 S&W .10mm Auto .45 Auto
Rifle: .222 Rem .223 Rem .22 Savage HP .220 Swift .243 Win .25-20 WCF .25-06 .25-06 AI .6.5 X 55 7mm RM .30 Carbine .30-30 WCF .303 Savage .300 WSM' .7.62 X 39 .44-40 WCF .45-70
Shotgun 12 gauge 16 gauge
Started reloading in 73 or 74 Aside from just loving the technology, a look at my caliber list should give a good idea of my motivation to handload. Shotguns I only ever loaded target ammo. These days, I probably shoot more 9mm than anything, but I have never reloaded it. For years I always felt I could by "white box" 9mm for less than the cost of components. I don't know if that's true today, but we have a commercial loader/reloader nearby, they give a discount to military and veterans and it's just wouldn't be worth my time and trouble to reload 9mm for the amount I use shooting IDPA.
Of all the deer and stuff I've killed over the last 50 years, I can recall only five deer and a caribou I've killed with factory ammo. The 'bou and one deer I killed with WW 190 Silvertips out of my .303 Savage. One deer was with a Federal blue box 150 grain .308 load and three deer were with WW 240 grain HP's from my Ruger .44 carbine (the old, original style.) That's not counting the several deer killed with factory shotgun slugs and rimfire ammo.
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A little 12Ga, 16Ga, 16G 2 1/2 , 222, 250Sav, 270, 30/30, 300Sav, 303Sav, 3006, 7X65R, 8X57JR, 375W, 38/40, 45/70 9MM, 30Mauser, 38Spec, 357, 45ACP, 45LC.
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Before I threw everything into the Ocean I was reloading the following. Pistol 380ACP 9MM 38Sp 357Mag 44Sp 44Mag 45ACP 45 Colt 454 S&W 460 S&W500
Rifle 30-30 308 30-06 45-90 50BMG
I used a Dillon 550B Progresive & RCBS LoadMaster for the 50
I no longer reload because it all went in the ocean.
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