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Garand or SKS?
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I've never bought a gun from a seller on Gunbroker. I use it for getting a ballpark idea of how much a gun without a MSRP could cost.
give me a break, I was making an exception, you know the whole death thing changes your perspectives. but I did set a pretty high bar.
Does this mean you're considering it, I do have more than one Garand, I could up the offer to two
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give me a break, I was making an exception, you know the whole death thing changes your perspectives. but I did set a pretty high bar.
Does this mean you're considering it, I do have more than one Garand, I could up the offer to two
Would steal a kidney for one before I would give my own, and that would probably cost at least a BAR and a Thompson both in full auto glory.
I would say yes, just from general research.
Seems people report pretty big differential between commercial cost and reloading. Way more than things like .223 or 9 mm
Yes definitely save the brass.
Depends how often you shoot. The other thing to look at is when there’s an ammo drought like after SH, being able to make your own ammo is HUGE. Aside from the money saving part.
I never kept 9mm (or .45), but that is just I would gather it up and put it in the sorted buckets at my club.
Have a huge bag of .38 though "just in case" I took up reloading.
Definitely keep. Even if you are a 1 box a year shooter, at the least you'll run into someone who reloads .30-06. If you do reload, you'll recoup the cost of equipment after a couple season if you are a regular shooter.
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I have some reasonable priced reloading kits in the other thread.. looking for opinions..
Amazon product ASIN B00162RM3EView: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00162RM3E/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
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Always save your brass at min you can easily sell your once fired brass for 10 cents each.
Worth is a funny thing
I started reloading after driving around one saturday to get enough ammo for a shotgun and club rifle match.
So reloading on its face is not a "money saver" what you get to do is load the ammo you want for the firearm you have whenyou want it.
Now if you have time to reload it helps. I generally have a hour or 2 to myself every night. So i do reloading and other things.
LOL! Just saw you posted in the reloading thread I started.
To the OP, you’ll definitely want a good single stage if you’re starting with rifle calibers. I get much better consistency resizing on my lee classic cast than with my Hornady LNL progressive.
I size and deprime on the Lee then prime, charge, and seat the bullets on the Hornady. I can really crank out rounds once the brass is prepped.
Just keep in mind that brass prep with rifle calibers is a PITA. You’ll have to clean resize clean off lube, trim, and then chamfer/debur the casemouths. At least the first time around. You probably don’t have to trim chamfer debur every time. But still it’s more involved than pistol calibers.
It’s still worth it though because you can make ammo whenever you want and aren’t really limited by what TSUSA has or what your local dealer has for ammo. You’ll most likely find yourself doing brass prep in batches. Unless you have copious amounts of free time on your hands lol.
I size and deprime on the Lee then prime, charge, and seat the bullets on the Hornady. I can really crank out rounds once the brass is prepped.
Just keep in mind that brass prep with rifle calibers is a PITA. You’ll have to clean resize clean off lube, trim, and then chamfer/debur the casemouths. At least the first time around. You probably don’t have to trim chamfer debur every time. But still it’s more involved than pistol calibers.
It’s still worth it though because you can make ammo whenever you want and aren’t really limited by what TSUSA has or what your local dealer has for ammo. You’ll most likely find yourself doing brass prep in batches. Unless you have copious amounts of free time on your hands lol.
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As long as people accumulate components on a regular basis and build up a stash BEFORE an ammo scare hits. That stuff dries up just like factory ammo does. I know you and others who reload know this, but just thinking some people may have the idea that they can pick up reloading halfway into a drought when theyre having trouble finding ammo only to find that powder and primers are nowhere to be found either.
At this point ImHO if you dont have a 3yrs supply of your normal shooting and your not resupplying as your using uo your inventory your going to be with out ammo/supply
i will restock at around 25-30% I also "buy" my ammo and reloads from myself so theres always a little cash on hand .
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Yep. Even if Trump gets re-elected for 4 more years, the likelihood of the following POTUS being a Dem is huge. Buy your components/tools/training in these fat years...
The second part is important.
I always remember a mentor once telling me that the company they worked for always had a good 4th quarter buy only selling trucks but not building any. 1st quarter though, rough stuff because they had minimal inventory to sell from.
