What are YOUR aims with reloading?

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

I don't see a problem there. I reload so I can shoot more.

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No, thats a good thing .. better accuracy .. because you're shooting more .. and better accuracy , because reloads are more accurate :D

Win all round :thumbsup:

That was my thinking exactly.

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

I don't see a problem there. I reload so I can shoot more.

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I also shoot more so I can reload more! Certainly value my quiet time at the table with no nagging.

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Originally Posted by gadgetman

When I started in my engineering course one thing was drilled into us. To define our desired outcomes and and what point we should abandon a project. At the time there were a large number of government projects sucking huge amounts of money out of the economy, and as they came up with problem after problem they just sucked in more money to overcome them. Typically they came in at 4-10 times their initial budget.

So on that note when you took on reloading why did you do it and what it your aim to say a load development project is complete. Conversely, at what point do you pull the pin and say it is a failure and look to a new project? What do you want to achieve?


I went into reloading with what I saw as a realistic view of what I wanted to achieve from a reasonable weight and inexpensive hunting rifle. Not knowing my capabilities, being new to shooting, I figured 25mm at 100m was all I was after with half the size of the heart lung zone on a deer and the energy/distance table of the cartridge I was using (400m). Figuring half the zone would give me a latitude for greater error for shooting in the field.

The main things I was after was reasonably low cost per round and initial set up. So I bought a second hand kit and just added a few extras to match what I was shooting and to speed up a couple of bottlenecks I identified (de-priming die, untrasonic cleaner and off press priming). Yes, I'm a proud tight arse. And yes, the other reason is that the process fascinated me and it was an itch I had to scratch.

So what are your thought?

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Look at this thread which posits your question about some thing which already works.

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Initially I was forced to reload as I bought a Sako Hunter in 7mm/08 from Reloaders Supplies. This was in January 1988 and was probably the 1st 7mm/08 Sako to be bought in NZ and I had 1st choice of the five they'd obtained. It was a new chambering for Sako. It was years later before A.G. Mitchell (the official NZ importers of Sako back then) started to import rifles in that calibre. There was no factory ammunition available and every hunter I came across had never heard of the cartridge and most of them kind of looked at me sideways for buying such an oddball. Ron Dent the owner of Reloaders had the nous to bring in some Remington brass and dies with the rifles. In twenty years I owned that rifle I never once fired a factory round through it nor needed to. Ron Dent was a pioneer and a very smart man and we owe him a debt of gratitude for his foresight in lowering the cost to hunters and shooters of quality firearms and ammunition. He stood by his grey imports too.

Rolling your own is not a cost saving exercise for hunting. However, the benefits can be substantial as pointed out in previous posts. If you do target shooting then it is almost a necessity to reload. I put thousands of handloads through my 6mm PPC Sako in N.Z.D.A. competition and shudder to think what the cost for that would've been if using Sako factory ammo (which apparently was very accurate in their 6mm PPC rifles) as it was prohibitively expensive.

I got into it because I wanted cheep 223 that shot alright out of my howa as it didn't like the taste of Barnaul


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My aim is to accumulate as much ammo as possible. I cast for 9mm and 40 S&W.My costs is 10 cents a round.
I loaded over 10K in the last 3 months.

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Originally Posted by nevada

My aim is to accumulate as much ammo as possible. I cast for 9mm and 40 S&W.My costs is 10 cents a round.
I loaded over 10K in the last 3 months.

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That is a hell of a lot of ammo. Are you expecting the natives to get restless?

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Originally Posted by Rushy

That is a hell of a lot of ammo. Are you expecting the natives to get restless?

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I'm getting while the getting is good.Who knows wot the retards will ban next.they already banned lead bullets in Kalifornia.
Or king Obama may decide to tax ammo,who knows.They stay awake at night thinking of ways to fuck our people.

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Originally Posted by nevada

I'm getting while the getting is good.Who knows wot the retards will ban next.they already banned lead bullets in Kalifornia.
Or king Obama may decide to tax ammo,who knows.They stay awake at night thinking of ways to fuck our people.

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Fair points. Good on ya then.