You are legally liable if someone gets hurt with ammo you reloaded for them. Can you image how much you would be sued for if they were blinded. If they stuck a patch in them barrel or a bullet how could you prove it in court?
Are the days of saving money with handloading
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Emmett Dibble
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I tried but can’t read though 4 pages….
Reloading to “save money” has ALWAYS been a fallacy for the most part.
You get to shoot MORE for the same amount of money, but generally you don’t save. ESPECIALLY if you are a high volume shooter. That is before you take into account reloading what you can’t buy, accuracy or specialty.
If your budget is $100 a month on ammo, you’ll shoot $100 of factory or load and shoot $100 worth of reloaded. Generally, that $100 goes farther reloading.
SHOOTING is expensive. Reloading isn’t.
Reloading to “save money” has ALWAYS been a fallacy for the most part.
You get to shoot MORE for the same amount of money, but generally you don’t save. ESPECIALLY if you are a high volume shooter. That is before you take into account reloading what you can’t buy, accuracy or specialty.
If your budget is $100 a month on ammo, you’ll shoot $100 of factory or load and shoot $100 worth of reloaded. Generally, that $100 goes farther reloading.
SHOOTING is expensive. Reloading isn’t.
joshb
Gold $$ Contributor
I think that’s only if you charge money for it, but it’s been a while since I talked to my lawyer about it.
dellet
Gold $$ Contributor
Well I saved some money today at a small local show. Found three pieces of brass for only $1 each. With the $6 fee to get in, makes it $3 per round. Makes it about half price.
The UMC headstamp changed to REM-UMC somewhere around 1912.
Not only did I save some money, I actually found something useful at a local show!
With any luck I’ll get to pass these along to another caretaker after another fifty or so firings.
Used brass $3-15
Primer .10
Powder .20
Bullet .35
Being able to shoot a 130 year old rifle with 110 year old brass in a match, PRICELESS.
The UMC headstamp changed to REM-UMC somewhere around 1912.
Not only did I save some money, I actually found something useful at a local show!
With any luck I’ll get to pass these along to another caretaker after another fifty or so firings.
Used brass $3-15
Primer .10
Powder .20
Bullet .35
Being able to shoot a 130 year old rifle with 110 year old brass in a match, PRICELESS.
snert
Silver $$ Contributor
I started at age 14 when my money was scarce and my time worthless. I was given the reloading equipment, but kept track and it paid for itself in two years.
However, since then it has become a hobby and there is no way I am "saving" money. I am spending it and having a literal blast. I am now 59 and plan to leave enough loaded ammo and "makins" for my kids that they will be able to take a few zombies with them when they go!
I just finished prepping 200 20 VT , loading 100 223 and decrimping 500 223 tonight. I have 2000 223 ready to load and another 1000+ ready for the Dillon decrimper.
Oh, and a full mud bucket full of 40SW ready for the progressive, and 2000 9mm too. Plus about 500 222 that need reloaded.
Oh, and I have a 7-30 Waters barrel, scope, dies, brass enroute as I write.
yup, saving money hand over fist here.....
However, since then it has become a hobby and there is no way I am "saving" money. I am spending it and having a literal blast. I am now 59 and plan to leave enough loaded ammo and "makins" for my kids that they will be able to take a few zombies with them when they go!
I just finished prepping 200 20 VT , loading 100 223 and decrimping 500 223 tonight. I have 2000 223 ready to load and another 1000+ ready for the Dillon decrimper.
Oh, and a full mud bucket full of 40SW ready for the progressive, and 2000 9mm too. Plus about 500 222 that need reloaded.
Oh, and I have a 7-30 Waters barrel, scope, dies, brass enroute as I write.
yup, saving money hand over fist here.....
Toms
Silver $$ Contributor
I have reloaded since 1965. I never saved any money I just got to shoot more for the same money. Toms
joshb
Gold $$ Contributor
You’re off to a good start....
Liven The Dream
Gold $$ Contributor
Money just won't go the distances theses day.
Take Powder at the Blue Circle Auto Store 4895 DuPont in a Metal Can was $3.27 a LB.
Comes in Plastic today at $48.53 LB. My Lord.
22 Long Rifle was $.50 a Box. Us boys shot after Church on Sunday for $1.00 at the Old Water Hole.
Us Guy's on SS get-ten a Big Raise come the New Year.
Times do Change.
Take Powder at the Blue Circle Auto Store 4895 DuPont in a Metal Can was $3.27 a LB.
Comes in Plastic today at $48.53 LB. My Lord.
22 Long Rifle was $.50 a Box. Us boys shot after Church on Sunday for $1.00 at the Old Water Hole.
Us Guy's on SS get-ten a Big Raise come the New Year.
Times do Change.
moondog
Gold $$ Contributor
I'm fairly new to reloading and customs. Shotguns and bird dogs prior to this. Fell in love with it immediately! I'm not a Bench rest or F class shooter. Field matches, matches and the last few years ELR. Not through foresight, but coming up on retirement, selling my business, I started buying a lot of barrels and components while I still had disposable income. I started reloading to relax and see what I could make my rifles do. Besides pistol ammo and 1 AR, I'm with Loyd, basically everything I shoot now is a wildcat, so there's that. Over the years this forum has been a wealth of information, it's also cost me a sh%t ton of money. Save money? that's funny, So thank you all.
My equipment paid for itself years ago, so amortization costs are not included in my calculations.
A wildcat round that used to cost me 92¢ to roll now costs me ~$1.50 when I calculate using current pricing.
I don't compete, but I'll load different rounds of a cartridge - plinking, hunting, arthritic loads, and target shooting.
Once at the range, because the components were purchased months or years before, rather than recently purchased, the sunk cost of the ammo does not enter into my thinking as I shoot dozens or hundreds of rounds.
Shooting is active meditation. So is reloading.
A wildcat round that used to cost me 92¢ to roll now costs me ~$1.50 when I calculate using current pricing.
I don't compete, but I'll load different rounds of a cartridge - plinking, hunting, arthritic loads, and target shooting.
Once at the range, because the components were purchased months or years before, rather than recently purchased, the sunk cost of the ammo does not enter into my thinking as I shoot dozens or hundreds of rounds.
Shooting is active meditation. So is reloading.
so far I have spent most of next year's COLA on bullets, powder and another scope.
By the exact example how does the shooter prove you reloaded his ammo
unless you gave him a receipt.
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