Help, I've lost interest in reloading!

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I, up until about two months ago, loved reloading. I enjoyed even the mundane chores of primer pocket uniforming, de-burring flash holes, chamfering, tumbling etc, etc.
I would make hundreds and hundreds of rounds in at least six calibers, work up loads, experiment with different components, I couldn't get enough. Now, I go sit down at the bench and it's just eech, I can't get motivated to do anything. Sometimes I don't even sit down, I walk up to the bench and bla! I look and just walk away. My seven year old daughter even said to me the other day "Dad, how come we never clean the bullets any more?" She loved to help me prep cases.
Just curious if others ever go through a funk or period of no interest at all in reloading? I don't get it, I would spend hours loading listening to podcasts, now, gag!
 
Mad_Mikee said:
It happens to everyone. Just put stuff away for a bit. The urge will come back.
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That is true, at least in my experience. I went into a funk awhile back where I didn't touch any of my loading stuff , and my guns as well, for had to be close to ten years. With a little coaxing from my son, at the time a teenager itching to do some shooting, I shook off the funk and got back into the swing of things with a vengeance. As noted it will come back, hopefully sooner rather than later.
 
Too many guns and too many tests for perfection in all. Cut down the herd for testing. Work on one get it right, then move on to the next. Doing that many will cause burn out or pissed of wife. Both are a bad scene.
 
I simplified all my basic hunting/plinking loading...just clean and load em up again with the same recipe.
I agree match prepping brass can become a chore that takes a lot of the fun out of it.
I tried some Nosler brass for a match gun and that made me smile....ready to load out of the box, weight sorted, deburred, chamferred, nothing to do except load them up.
 
kawicrash said:
I, up until about two months ago, loved reloading. I enjoyed even the mundane chores of primer pocket uniforming, de-burring flash holes, chamfering, tumbling etc, etc.
I would make hundreds and hundreds of rounds in at least six calibers, work up loads, experiment with different components, I couldn't get enough. Now, I go sit down at the bench and it's just eech, I can't get motivated to do anything. Sometimes I don't even sit down, I walk up to the bench and bla! I look and just walk away. My seven year old daughter even said to me the other day "Dad, how come we never clean the bullets any more?" She loved to help me prep cases.
Just curious if others ever go through a funk or period of no interest at all in reloading? I don't get it, I would spend hours loading listening to podcasts, now, gag!
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If you are loading hundreds and hundreds of ammo, maybe you are suffering from overload reload. I reload and shoot about 500 to 600 per year, and that is plenty for me. Maybe just reload one quarter of what you normally do, or just take a break for a few weeks. I'm 60 years old and still love reloading and shooting. I never fought the idea of "oh, damn reloading, I don't feel like it". Embrace it and always love it!
 
I hate reloading. It seriously is a means to a end. Lol cheaper ammo. I used to like it, but after stress loading 400 match rounds ds in one sitting I started to hate reloading. Only loaded up what I was going to shoot.

My end goal is to get an automated 1050 or 650.

I've also changed sports from lr to action shooting. So for that I'm almost better off getting factory ammo from USA (I shoot all my pistol matches in USA).
 
Went through something similar a few years ago when I got rid of my last 28 gauge. It was the only gauge where reloading was a genuine saving. I had previously gotten out of the rifle cartridges that required reloading and never loaded handgun. I waited a couple of years to see if the interest would return and it didn't. Sold my reloading gear shortly thereafter and don't miss it. The only way I'd get back into it now would be the acquisition of a rifle caliber that wasn't commonly available.
 
I would be concerned at the potential that this is a symptom of something potentially more serious.

I think a therapy session at the range with a group of similar minded folk and a good sprinkling of your finest and favourite firearms and all of your accumulated 'home rolled' ammunition. Do not leave the range until you have at least depleted the stash, preferably not until all is gone.

Return home and then meditate the future cost and expense of ever being able to have that much fun again.

If you still feel the same, please contact me for additional more stringent therapy, which is given only to those who have acknowledged that they no longer live to shoot. Payment is in firearms and other other associated accessories of value.

I really hope that you have a speedy recovery to this malaise, however, if not drop me a pm and we can get underway quickly with my special therapy.

Regards

Candocad. :)
 
VinnyQC said:
If you don't enjoy reloading anymore, don't do it. Instead of cleaning brass, clean the dishes with your daughter, the wife won't complain.
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Yup. Don't know if you remember the old TV series "Alf", but Alf's advice about how to have a happy life was, "Find out what you don't do well, and then don't do it." I would add, "If you find out you don't like to do something, don't do it."
 
kawicrash said:
I, up until about two months ago, loved reloading. I enjoyed even the mundane chores of primer pocket uniforming, de-burring flash holes, chamfering, tumbling etc, etc.
I would make hundreds and hundreds of rounds in at least six calibers, work up loads, experiment with different components, I couldn't get enough. Now, I go sit down at the bench and it's just eech, I can't get motivated to do anything. Sometimes I don't even sit down, I walk up to the bench and bla! I look and just walk away. My seven year old daughter even said to me the other day "Dad, how come we never clean the bullets any more?" She loved to help me prep cases.
Just curious if others ever go through a funk or period of no interest at all in reloading? I don't get it, I would spend hours loading listening to podcasts, now, gag!
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I gave it up as well, if you count the hours spent reloading, it is way cheaper to buy bullets,
 
I only go do reloading when I have a planned range trip the next day or so. If I don't shoot I don't reload~~~I spend more time break my guns down and clean them on my bench than play with my presses :D. Just go finish all your ammo, maybe you will have the urge to reload again:D Good luck ~! It's fun to reload, that's for sure. The reason for me to reload is I can control how my ammunition behaves, that's very cool, don't you think :D.
 
I went through a similar funk over the last couple of years and think I narrowed it down to being frustrated with too many guns and too many calibres. I have since been reducing the number of calibres and narrowing the types of guns / shooting I do and it has helped.

Last couple of months I have been it the basement an hour or two every couple nights when the kids are in bed and the wife is at work, it's my quiet time now. Mostly just single stage but just today I dusted off the progressive to start reloading .223 for my new to me Swiss arms. Had not used it in 2 years.

It'll come back to you once you figure out what is sucking the fun out of it.
 
I've been in a funk for several months also.

Been working way too many hours this summer and I find I just don't have the time.

That and I load probably 15 different calibers regularily and another 10 once in a while. There was point where I was loading black powder, rim fire, cast and match loads all of the time.

Also 5 or 6 of my calibers involve making the brass and casting the bullets so it may take 20 hours here and there before I even have a cartridge.

I went too far down the rabbit hole so I've taken the summer off from reloading. Been shooting 22 lately and it's getting my urge back to roll some ammo.

I think we all go through it at one time or another.
 
I kinda got in a little funk too until I took an m38 I had to the range and tried it at 300yrds with iron sights using surplus ammo and firing prone. It is a terrific rifle! I instantly wanted better ammo to see what it could do. I went through my brass and found box of new Norma brass and started to dream of the possibilities...... I'm even trying my lee loader out in that caliber just to see what it can do. I'm sure if you find some inspiration you will be reloading again
 
Maybe the issue is not reloading... but "what am I reloading for?"

I spent many years loading to learn.. why does this do that? What happens if? After a while, you learn the basics, then you learn the complex. There really isn't much that will change and it gets stagnant.

Then I wanted to get into LR shooting and eventually competition. Loading is simply the means that lets me enjoy the sport and hit targets way out there. I spend far less time experimenting and more time shooting.

The real task for me now is ... learning to read the wind. I need good ammo and good rifles to learn.. thus reloading has a new purpose

Jerry
 
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