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January 5th, 2013, 12:52 PM #21Junior Member
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January 5th, 2013, 12:53 PM #22
Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
Gunlawyer.....reloading is not as dangerous as you make it sound. Hornady brings this point home in their book by stating that of all the statistics on accidents, there is no separate category for reloading. If there were a lot of reloading accidents, you can be sure this would be the case.
If you take your time and learn it is no more dangerous than shooting itself.....and everyone here does that.
ETA: regarding going blind etc. There is a die called the RCBS Lockout die which literally locks the press if the powder charge is above or below a prescribed amount. With the proper setup, a catastrophic accident from reloading is nearly impossible. (this is only for progressive presses using pistol ammo however)Last edited by ShooterInPA1; January 5th, 2013 at 12:59 PM.
The USA is now a banana republic. Only without the bananas....or the Republic.
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January 5th, 2013, 01:04 PM #23
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January 5th, 2013, 01:10 PM #24
Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
I would imagine that the reason that Lockout Die was designed and sold was that it was recognized that excess powder could cause a catastrophic failure.
Like I said, if you do it right, there's little risk. That applies to driving, too, but 40,000 Americans are killed every year in driving accidents, and many times that are injured.
There's a risk, most people aren't interested enough in investing the many, many hours to master the activity, especially after accurate factory ammo got cheap enough. If you're shooting at mice at 500 yards, then sure, you might spend the time to hone your own super-accurate loads, because then it's worth the thousands of hours. Otherwise, not so much.
And reloaders are just as vulnerable to panic shortages as anyone else, as the occasional rumors about primers have shown. Remember when the govt was going to mandate 1-year primers?
The truly independent guys will be the flintlock blackpowder folks, casting their own lead bullets and mixing their own powder from trays of drying urine and other sundry chemicals.Attorney Phil Kline, AKA gunlawyer001@gmail.com
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January 5th, 2013, 01:16 PM #25
Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
There is a risk, however reloading is a form of MAD seen during the Cold War. If it is in one's interest for self-preservation to do it right, they will. Thousands of presses are sold each day. Yet where are the accidents?
The risk is there, but it is overblown if one pays attention to what they are doing.The USA is now a banana republic. Only without the bananas....or the Republic.
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January 5th, 2013, 01:29 PM #26Grand Member
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Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
what he said...
I have an "extensive" reloading setup, and at one time was reloading 200-300 rounds of rifle ammo a month, and another 300 of pistol ammo.
THose were the days when I was working 40 hours a week straight and was not taking my work home with me...Now I am pushing 60 hours a week and spend another 8-10 working at home which leaves no time for anything...
Also, some calibers are simply not worth reloading due to the commercial stuff being fairly inexpensive...9 mm comes to mind for this..Last edited by glocke12; January 5th, 2013 at 01:32 PM.
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January 5th, 2013, 01:50 PM #27
Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
There were some great reloading threads a while back aimed at news. The Lee kit seems to have almost everything you need for about $200.
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/785...cm_vc=wishList
Reloading is high on my to-do list but I haven't had the time to set it up yet.
I found the sticky in the reloading forum to be a good source of info
http://forum.pafoa.org/ammunition-re...ead-first.html
(Trying to add some value to this thread)
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January 5th, 2013, 02:06 PM #28
Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
I thought I was in a discussion with you. I am sorry if I offended you with my opinion. You posted something and I responded. Do you not understand how forums like this work?
You can always put me on ignore if you like. Maybe someday we can have a big boy discussion.
You would make a good anti, just ignore when someone is trying to make a point and use glib pokes to answer them.Some people just plain suck.
If you're gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough.
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January 5th, 2013, 02:11 PM #29Junior Member
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Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
I Don't reload because I can just go to the store and buy it.
My time is more valuable than what I would save reloading. With that said, I am as cheap as they come and I rationalize every dollar I spend. For me to do something myself, it needs to pay for me to do it and or be of more value than whatelse I could spend my time doing.
Example:
I wouldn't waste my time changing my own oil to save $15. I will just go to jiffy lube and pay $32.
I wouldn't pay somebody $35 to cut my lawn, I would spend 45 minutes and do it myself.
I wouldn't pay a plumber $150 to fix a leaking pipe in my basement, I would take 30 minutes and do it myself.
I wouldn't save $5 or $10 reloading a box of ammo, I would just pay the $22 and be done with it.
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January 5th, 2013, 03:54 PM #30
Re: All of these people driving to Walmart after Walmart......
The USA is now a banana republic. Only without the bananas....or the Republic.
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