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caz223
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I think the last time I shot factory in my .41 was about '95. I was curious. Still got a box in my drawer, it's 11 years+ old.
None of my .40s have ever seen a factory round. Still working on a good accurate load for .40 using either longshot or power pistol. That's a project for june, hopefully.
Until maybe 4 years ago, all my .45s got PMP ammo from south africa by the case. It shot great and was cheaper than I could load 'em. Smelled like burning yak hair. Now I load my own. I still got a case of PMC .45 in one of my ammo lockers. I have some ammo a friend of mine said he carried in 'nam. I got several boxes of that, though in military plain brown boxes. With the old style rounded primers. It looks genuine enough. There *was* a box of WCC 67, 68, and 71 in with it, so maybe be indeed carry some of it. I don't know. I didn't pay for it, so I don't care.
I got a 5 gallon pail of matching headstamp 9mm WIN brass. I bought most of it at wal-mart. I load 147 grain JHPs now. Now that wal-mart raised their 9mm price, it's about the same price to load 147 JHPs. *Shrug* well, I got the brass....
I bought .357 mag UMC ten years ago, switched to magtech maybe 5 years ago. My source for cheap magtech dried up, gonna have to start loading .357 again. Oh well, 2400 is pretty cheap by the keg. I've had poor accuracy with blue dot. No idea why. It works good in every other caliber I've tried it in.
I vaguely remember purchasing a box of PMC .44 mag for about $25. I got dies in a trade, and never looked back. Maybe I bought two boxes of .44, I don't know. It was a long time ago. The only brand I ever bought was PMC. Handloads with H110 were a VAST improvement.
I burned up large quantities of blazer 10mm ammo. I know it's weak but it was so cheap, and I could use it to introduce n00Bs to the 10mm experience. Switched over to handloads about 5 years ago, I bought a large lot of starline brass and started loading 'em up, never looked back. Bought KKM barrels for my glock 20s, so I wouldn't wreck my brass. One of my newer guns bites the mouth of my new brass bad enough to make it unusable, I'm not shooting that gun again until I figure it out. It's a dan wesson PTC-bob. Man, that gun shoots nice, other than that.
Still working on a good 357SIG load. I bought blazer, and they discontinued it. Had setback issues I guess. I bought winchester 357SIG for $14.50 a box, and I considered it money well spent. I prolly bought 3 cases of that, a box or 2 at a time. The accuracy was exceptional. When my ammo source dried up for that 3 years ago, I tried loading it with rainiers. The accuracy was acceptable for practice, but in no way approached the factory WIN stuff. Still tinkering. Still have a half case of WIN 357SIG left for a rainy day. I have 1000 WIN 124 JHP bullets that I'm gonna try out in this caliber.
I could go on and on. Start loading if you don't already. You learn more about the gun you shoot, shoot it better, can afford to shoot it more, and because you shoot it more, you wind up shooting it better. And it's darn fun.
And you also learn which guns have soul and which ones don't. I used to buy a gun every time I had enough money in my account. Now one has to call out to me. I haven't heard the call in many months now. That doesn't mean I haven't planned my next 3 gun purchases, however.
I really wish there were forums like this when I first started. Would have been a whole lot easier.
Last edited on Tue Mar 14th, 2006 06:50 PM by caz223
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Hi Caz
Had a look at your pieces......really nice!!!!
All the best
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All i have ever liked to do is hunt and shoot, i was born with this addiction. When i was discharged from the Army in 1972. I liked shooting more than my pocket book would allow, so i started reloading and have never looked back. Now i hate the idea of having to use a factory load in my rifles , just doesn't feel right unless you are hunting with ammo you rolled yourself. 
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After I finished high school in 1970 and started working, it didn't take me long to notice if I wanted to shoot as much as I liked I wouldn't be doing it with factory ammo. I started reloading in 1971 with a Lee Loader. It just kept going after that. I still have those Lee hand tools, but haven't loaded a cartridge with them in years. It would be intresting to know how many rounds I've loaded in the last 35 years. I can't even begin to imagine. It's been a good hobby and kept me out of the bars and trouble. I have spent a lot of money on guns and stuff. The rest I just wasted! Bill T.
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Black-tailed Bandit
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My dad has reloased for about 40+ years so I started helping when I ws a kid. Now we both load togeather. He is gettin old and has arthritus and can't do to much so I now do all the loading with his help.
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In 1976 or so I bought a T/C Contender (sadly it was sold so I could eat about 4 years ago among other guns, BAD time in life) the first barrel being a 22lr and the second being a 22 Hornet. I read alot then, still do, but the guys like Bob Milek, John Wooters and especailly Dean Grennell and Ken Waters had already had me thinking that I would have to load my own for accuracy. Then I went and bought two boxes of Hornets . Now I KNEW I had to load as I like shooting A LOT. RCBS JR, 505 scale and a few other things and I was on my way. I wasn't long before I had my Bonanza Co-Ax press (still have it and it is about the only one I use). Leeloaders for several of my rounds I load just because I like them. Got all the Forrester case trimmer with neck turner and also Forrester drill press trimmer (I had a mill at the time, that's gone too). Redding powder measure. Basically the best stuff I could buy.
Accuracy was my thing, that and hunting Jack Rabbits in the Mojave Desert and ground squirrels in the canyons. Spent EVERY weekend at the range. Soon had a 22-250 788 and a Rem 700 .243 that were both shooting around .5". Might be no big deal today but in the middle to late 70's they were the ONLY rifles at that range that could do that consistantly. Every week I worked to make better ammo and every weekend I shot to see how I had done. It was great fun. In late 1979 I started racing and that slowed the shooting down some. Never stopped but between racing and a career that was taking off there just was not much time left. Always figured that I could do this stuff later.
Now it is later,I don't Race, I am no longer an active pilot and the career is over due to breakng my back 3 times and the industry moving over seas. Now I'm getting real serious again about my loading and shooting.
Factory loads? My Kahr 9mm and my Kel Tec .380 ACP get ONLY factory loads as I consider it a waste to load for them as cheap as the ammo is and I do not consider it legally wise to use handloads in a carry or defense gun. The rest:
CZ 22 Hornet- NEVER had a factory load in the few months I've owned it
.222 Sako NEVER had a factory load in 20 years
.22-250 788 NEVER had a factory load in almost 30 years
.243 700 Rem 100 Federal factory loads when Weatherby's was practically giving the away and I LOVE FED .243 brass. Later I got once fired Fed brass from Weatherby's for a dollar a box! Why Fedral brass? Internal Capacity is so large you can use 6mm Rem data for it!!! BE CAREFULL, THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE of TODAY'S BRASS. Out of about 2000 rounds those are the only factory rounds used.
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