Addicted to reloading?

Andy said:
It's my favourite element of the shooting sports, especially when reloading obsolete cartridges and wildcats, use of smokeless in antiques, modifying modern cartridges to replicate those that are obsolete, casting, and otherwise developing "unpublished" loads.

I keep telling myself I can stop any time....
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Yup , nothing like a new reloading challenge to keep the mind in a happy place, If my boss only knew how many times thinking about what I need to fix to get my paper patched loads more accurate has kept me from telling him to stick his job where the sun don't shine ....
 
I am the same way. Even if I have nothing to load. I go to my gun room and look at my bullets and what ever else.
My thing now is wanting to buy odd calibre rifles.

Next I want a lever action to sling some lead cast with.
 
Other than my shooting addiction, reloading provides a mental connection to the range when it's cold outside and not really great to shoot.

I love it and like collecting tools, I always need something extra for my loading addiction :)
 
ultimate_monkey said:
FUK no! Haha I hate it these days ! I used to enjoy it many moons ago now... Sitting makes my back hurt, my hands cramp holding cases to neck turn, trim, chamfer , debur, uniform primer pockets and all that other BS involved with loading precision ammo .. If it didn't triple the amount I can shoot for the same cost .. Probably wouldn't do it ..


Plus side is . I know 100% that I'll hit what I'm aiming at..

Pistol I don't mind much as production to time ratio is much greater
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I'm in the same boat as Ultimate Monkey, although my addiction does still ebb and flow...I find it hard to bring myself to head down to the reloading dungeon and pay the price in time and toil when the weather above ground is so fine this time of year.

Was thinking about moving the ammo factory out to the barn where I could be in the sun and watch the wildlife but this would be a major project.

For now, I crank out just what I need for the shoot in the evening calm...With gongs out to 700 yards and a smoke it rock at 750 right outside the door the time from reload to ignition is only a matter of seconds.

For volume reloads I need a protege or better yet a reloading slavess.
 
Lastgun said:
I'm in the same boat as Ultimate Monkey, although my addiction does still ebb and flow...I find it hard to bring myself to head down to the reloading dungeon and pay the price in time and toil when the weather above ground is so fine this time of year.

Was thinking about moving the ammo factory out to the barn where I could be in the sun and watch the wildlife but this would be a major project.

For now, I crank out just what I need for the shoot in the evening calm...With gongs out to 700 yards and a smoke it rock at 750 right outside the door the time from reload to ignition is only a matter of seconds.

For volume reloads I need a protege or better yet a reloading slavess.
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I went the other way...I brought my second set up into the basement so I didn't have to warm up the shop...

I'm fawked now though...I bought a lube-a-matic and my first mold... f:P:
 
dogbreath said:
Your not alone my friend. I load calibers I dont even have guns for..... yet. I constantly am scrounging around for brass. When I go to the range Ill spend just about as much time picking up brass as I do shooting. I buy powder... lots of powder, no I mean LOTS of powder. Having only 5,000 of any kind of primers left in the cabinet causes me anxiety, 10,000 is better. I calculate how many bullets I have in pounds, not by quantity. I have every website about loading bookmarked and readily available. Ya your not alone:)
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This sounds about right!
Winter, when I think it's too cold/snow too deep, I'm in the room loading for spring shooting. When I do get out to shoot, it's usually a day-long event (a couple or 3 days long) to run the ammo through the firearms.
I have run out of room to store my test loads a couple of times.

When I'm having a "blah day" it's off to the room to trim, resize, prime, sort brass, check inventory, etc.
My last "blah day" I checked how many different powders I had on hand.......................35!
 
I'm addicted to shooting. Reloading is a necessary evil to feed the addiction.
I compare it to how a crack whore has to do nasty stuff to get their fix from their dealer / pimp.
 
Yeah.....me too....I have been noticed dumpster diving for brass, whether it is .308 .243 45acp 9mm .223.....LOL. Was just out to the range yesterday and discovered that a lot of the snow had melted exposing some beautiful 9mm and .243 brass.....jackpot. I am cleaning and resizing right now.
 
Yeah at the range the other day a guy was shooting a glock 9mm and there was a heap of once fired brass on the ground, I was practically drooling, he got in his car and left leaving me alone to snatch it up:cool:

Then a day or so later I bought 2000 9mm brass off the EE, now I'm panicking because I have 2500 brass not loaded and I only have 600 boolits, 500 SP primers and half a pound of Titegroup left.:runaway:
 
.Ben said:
Yeah at the range the other day a guy was shooting a glock 9mm and there was a heap of once fired brass on the ground, I was practically drooling, he got in his car and left leaving me alone to snatch it up:cool:

Then a day or so later I bought 2000 9mm brass off the EE, now I'm panicking because I have 2500 brass not loaded and I only have 600 boolits, 500 SP primers and half a pound of Titegroup left.:runaway:
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One of my favourite scenarios...
-Guy shows up to shoot some 223, 9mm etc. and lots of it!
-Guy obviously doesn't reload by the looks of him, you begin to get excited......
-He reaches down to pick up a case... your heart sinks.....
-He inspects case, then places it on the bench.... you all but give up on the prospect of pulling in the mother load

- He begins packing up and you wait for all "your would be brass" to disappear with him.
-gets in car and leaves
- you begin to look like a cocaine addict on your hands and knees below a pinata filled with cocaine baggies!
 
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