P&D Enterprises in Edmonton. Really solid store, have a little bit of everything. They’ve got a forum on the site here, and have an ok website of their own
I don’t have anyone to mentor my learning curve, so I’m going to check out this course they offer. 9-5 on a Sunday, they go through the A-Z of reloading. 6 people in the course max, and everyone will have the opportunity to do some hands on skill building. I’m fairly mechanically inclined so I think it will be a good way for me to start in the right direction. Between manuals and discussion boards I think all the info is out there.
I believe it’s offered once a month. Give them a shout and pick their brain, see if you want to make the trip up from Calgary. Cost about $130
I once did some casting and reloading for 9mm. It was a laborious process but I was shooting for ~0.10c per round.
Today, I saw 1000rds for $249.99 at a local store.
If I were to do it again, I'd probably go that route.
Yeah, U saw that too at the local closing down WSS.
But not having my PAL yet, I cannot stock up anything!!! Seeing all the onsales goes by make me cry!!!
It’s true, no one calculates their labor into the equation. I could buy factory ammo for the same amount of time at work vs reloading time. It’s more something I do because I enjoy it.
Thanks man!There will be more sales. Tenda sells 1000 rounds of 9mm blazer brass routinely. There's also been deals with mail rebate that ended up for less than 25¢/round.
18 months ago, a great sale on 9mm was 300$/1000. Now you can get them for 250$, sometimes less. Never believe words like "last chance" from someone who's got something to sell.
I think you nailed!!!!A coupe of things - trying going shooting at the range the local PD uses, you'll find they generally don't pick up their brass and it's all once fired. Next up, I've reloaded 50,000 rounds of 9mm on a Lee Pro, I have an even older turret press that I use as a single stage for crimping, they do work. I started with the Turret, and I'd strongly recommend the four station turret for a new loader - they have better feel, and you have more control of the process, this means you screw up less. The turret scales down better too - if you're not shooting a ton of ammo, the turret is capable of loading what you need for causal shooting in a couple of hours. As far as components go, you can spread your buying over a month when you load - powder one week, bullets the next, primers after that. Once the initial outlay is taken care of, doing this will make it a steady rotation of smaller expenses (which will bug your wife a lot less than $250 for a case each month or 6 weeks). Incidentally in 50K rounds I had 4 bad ones, all my fault and even then they all fed, so I'm not sure you need or want any kind of special processing/dies/brass - the gun is an earlier (2007) M&P9.
The turret press can be bought as a kit with everything (including a manual and manual scale) except dies for $357.
I think you nailed!!!!
We don't want divorce over a hobby!
So it is quite true the financial portion for this hobby that it is burning your cash......
So every effort for me to "save" will help........ And your method is very in line with mine.......
But most likely will try to convince the first heavy cash for all... Incl, first handguns and rifles, then to cut the expenses by couple month at the time......
I had other hobbies that are expensive too...... So, wife knows my tactics....lol
It gets harder and harder to get "approved"...lol
Cheers and have a happy New Year!
You get better prices/free shipping when you buy larger lots though.
