Addicted to reloading?

.Ben

.Ben

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As of recently I feel like thoughts of reloading are taking up more of my mind, I think about reloading at inappropriate times, I dream about reloading, I find the Lyman manual better than any bedtime novel, and when I'm out of town my main concern is how I will go through a weekend without reloading anything, sometimes I get such a craving I just have to run down to the reloading room and crank out some 9mm or trim some 30-06 cases, I have also taken a sudden hostility towards factory ammo. I also feel I want more guns just so I can load for them....

Anyway all jokes aside, anyone else addicted? Is their a 12 step program? Or maybe I don't want to beat this.... I just love reloading! Thanks to all CGN members in the reloading section for getting me hooked:cool:

And to think I started reloading to save money....
 
I recently bought a new rifle and had used some old loads from a different gun. the results were less than what I had hoped for. I was out of town working for the last 2 months, and was able to come home for 3 days in the middle of it all. What did I do? worked up 6 different loads for the same round, and all I could think about was being able to get back home and see how they group. Yes, it consumes me sometimes too.
 
I loaded up sixty rounds today.
Started last night and ran into some bad energy.
Quit before things got worse.
Today things rolled along as normal.
Not sure what the heck was going on late yesterday.
 
Just wait, when you start to cast your own bullets you will wish it was like the old days when you only thought about reloading.
 
hunter64 said:
Just wait, when you start to cast your own bullets you will wish it was like the old days when you only thought about reloading.
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Hi my name is Dave,
Tell me about it. I gave the roofers 10 36"x36" pure lead flashings to use. When they told me they only needed 24"x24" I said not a problem just save me the cut offs. Came into work to find out their gopher tossed it all into the dumpster. Last few days I have been waking up at night thinking of 50 Sq Ft of lead flashing heading to the landfill. Yep, I have it bad also
 
I bought supplies to reload 2300 9mm 1000 45cal and 800 357 mag. I figured It would keep me busy all winter reloading.........I started in October, and I was done in October rockin to the 70"s LOL.

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all done on a little single press.
 
Just wait until you find an odd-ball set of dies at a yard sale for a cheap price and then spend the next couple of years finding a rifle chambered in that cartridge.
 
'Boo said:
Just wait until you find an odd-ball set of dies at a yard sale for a cheap price and then spend the next couple of years finding a rifle chambered in that cartridge.
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But that's the challenge in it, isn't it? That's what I tell the missus anyway. I must be convincing because now she tells me the same thing.
 
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:)
 
I think about reloading way too much as well. I daydream all day about it.
This is probably because I have a certain rifle that is giving me a hard time so if I ever figure it out I might just get bored.
 
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
 
I think of reloading all the time! I love it!!! I just picked up 41K in Campro projectiles this past weekend, sadly only 5K of this order was mine!

 
.Ben said:
As of recently I feel like thoughts of reloading are taking up more of my mind, I think about reloading at inappropriate times, I dream about reloading, I find the Lyman manual better than any bedtime novel, and when I'm out of town my main concern is how I will go through a weekend without reloading anything, sometimes I get such a craving I just have to run down to the reloading room and crank out some 9mm or trim some 30-06 cases, I have also taken a sudden hostility towards factory ammo. I also feel I want more guns just so I can load for them....

Anyway all jokes aside, anyone else addicted? Is their a 12 step program? Or maybe I don't want to beat this.... I just love reloading! Thanks to all CGN members in the reloading section for getting me hooked:cool:

And to think I started reloading to save money....
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Ben as a fellow North Bayer I feel your pain and the troubles you face every day. Fortunately for us Reloadaholics in North East Ontario we have a support group for people like you and I.

It is called the Rockcut Rifle Club - :)

Don't worry Brother we are always there to help you out in a time of need and will always help shoot off your surplus ammo so you can load some more. No need to thank us. That is just the caring type of people we are at the Rockcut - lol

Enjoy my friend.
 
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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