I can load match grade ammo for less than the cost of surplus. OR, I can load plinkers for half that and shoot twice as much. As many people say, you don't save money reloading, but you do shoot a lot more!
.204 Ruger Factory Ammo -- Cheaper than Reloads?
- Thread starter Ironworker
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I hand load becuase I have to( accept for this deal I posted about), the price for factory ammo is prohibitive .My hand loaded 6mm Creedmoor ammo is significantly more accurate than Hornady factory stuff.
SMITTY33
Gold $$ Contributor
Yea ... an " @ this $ why reload" title might have worked better on a Reloading forum.
Thanks Ironworker. Excellent prices. Even a bit better than SGAmmo which has been my go to place. The shipping seems to be about the same. I've been handloading for almost 50 years there have always been more important things in life. For some situations it's a necessity that I tolerate. To whack a groundhog in the back yard with a 17 Hornet or to poke some paper at the range with a 380 or 9mm I'll take the factory stuff. I could save a few bucks on the 3,000 or so rounds of 9mm I shoot a year. I still couldn't justify spending my time doing something I don't enjoy to save a couple hundred dollars.
sure isn't to save money. i have more money in reloading equipment than rifles.
i do it because i love it
i do it because i love it
I spent many years working in a lab early in my career. I love to test things. Just for grins couple years ago, I always shoot my own hand loads but instead, I shot a 600 yard FTR match with the best available box ammo (which felt) at the time. Shot the next match (yes conditions change) with some high quality hand loads, with respect to neck tension, charge weight etc. It was an appreciable difference, which I already knew from the chrono testing.
Came to a conclusion, that you can shoot a 600 yard FTR match and do OK or pretty good and will have some fun if you don't want to hand load. To be competitive however, you absolutely have to hand load and X2 for 1,000 yard matches.
Came to a conclusion, that you can shoot a 600 yard FTR match and do OK or pretty good and will have some fun if you don't want to hand load. To be competitive however, you absolutely have to hand load and X2 for 1,000 yard matches.
jonbearman
I live in new york state,how unfortunate !
My thoughts exactly Ben. I could not shoot very much if at all if I did not reload. I have gotten great deals on powder,bullets I have hoarded over the years so I am set for now . I try never to use factory except in self defense loads.
For me it is the simple matter of pride in one's own accomplishments. Turning out a better product than can be purchased. And enjoying doing it.
Monetary savings? I don't think so. But then again I never added how much I would have saved if I never went to any NHL games. It just does not figure in for me at all.
Monetary savings? I don't think so. But then again I never added how much I would have saved if I never went to any NHL games. It just does not figure in for me at all.
Pretty stupid website. No ammunition listed. Thanks for wasting my time; I won't spend a dime there.
I corrected my mistake in 5th post https://www.outdoorlimited.com/
My apologies. The corrected site does have some really good prices. Thanks
That is easy to say now that he corrected the link. The first website looked bogus.
jimmymac
Jim McGregor
He corrected the website on Friday and also clarified why he put the thread up to begin with. It does help to read the entire thread.
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I believe everyone has their own reasons for rolling their own. I began shooting at about 8 years old in 1958 when a friend of my uncle gave me an old Remington Model 510 22 rifle. I started reloading when I was about 22 years old when I came home from Vietnam. While I was never a sniper and had no great desire to be the Marine Corps marksmanship program spurned my interest in not only shooting high power rifle but rolling my own accurate ammunition. Today, forty-five years later my reloading goals are the same as they were in 1972. I enjoy building accurate ammunition. I actually enjoy placing painstaking effort into making a perfect round, well as close to perfect as I can manage anyway. I don't load or shoot what many like to call blasting or plinking ammunition, I try to focus on making accurate ammunition for my rifles I enjoy most. I will confess I do on ocasion bulk load 38 Special, 357 Magnum and 45 ACP but for the most part even in handgun I try to use quality components. Does rolling my own save me money? Not really but saving a buck is not why I reload. I reload to make accurate ammunition tuned to my guns.
I do know plenty of other shooters who reload as a cost cutting measure and nothing wrong with that at all. They crank out hundreds of rounds in a few hours for their shooting pleasure and for the younger shooters who need to place beanies and weenies on the table for starting out families it is a great way to go.
Overall we all have our reasons for pursuing rolling our own and whatever trips your trigger works. Never read a reloading or hand load manual which defined why we should reload. The manuals just supply suggestions on how to go about the process and provide recipes for making a good cake to bring to the range.
Ron
Thanks ! I meant no harm. I handload to create custom ammo and save money,but handloading can be tedious .So If I find a great price I like to pass it on .
I started reloading back in the 80's thinking I would save money...........that didn't happen. But it does allow me to shoot 3 times as much for the same price. Also there is something to be said when you walk down to your target and see .25" group, you smile and think to yourself "I made that load".
Mark
Mark
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