You might be a Reloader if...

[texassako]

You buy guns just so you have a new cartridge to have fun working up some new loads.

[Green Frog]

What are these "factories" of which you speak?

[Hardcast416taylor]

You appraise any empty containers your wife is throwing out as possible containers for cases or boolets.Robert

[mold maker]

You find yourself graduating from pill bottles, to mayo jars, to restaurant slaw jars, to 5 gal buckets, and a much bigger space to store them.

[marvelshooter]

You appraise any empty containers your wife is throwing out as possible containers for cases or boolets.Robert

Especially the new square Smart Balance containers.

[dilly]

You might be a reloader if you regularly shoot a large quantity of any caliber of ammunition that isn't or wasn't made for a military purpose (other than rimfire).

Compare the cost of mil surp 7.62x39 to 6.8 spc or something like that.

Just noticed that. 6.8 spc actually was developed for the military. I meant the huge mass production benefit if cost reduction for 9mm, 223, etc.

[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

You find yourself buying a label-er and those plastic shoe boxes with lids from Big Lots just so you can keep your massive quantities of brass organized by calibers, because there's so much the various containers you "recycled" from your wife's plastic throwaways are no longer getting the job done and they're falling over and mixing the brass (again, for the hundredth time).

[pworley1]

You never understood all the talk about an ammo shortage.

[TheDoctor]

You meticulously load 500 rounds for a friend on a single stage, of a caliber that you do not own, using materials financed by said friend, just so you can keep the dies. In case he needs some more in the future, of course.....

[xs11jack]

Some one gives you 6 boxes of factory rounds and you trade them for powder and primers.
Ole Jack

[SWAGE-X]

You buy only Folgers brand coffee to get the plastic containers.
It is good coffee.

Bob

[leebuilder]

Been guilty of all the past comments

But the best of being a reloader, when you are still shooting and the boys with thier fancy pants prepackaged factory ammo are sitting in the car waiting because they are out,,, you are giggling and still shooting and you have more brass to sort from the boys.
Love it.

[Bayou52]

All of a sudden, plastic zip lock bags aren't just for sandwiches anymore......

[trapper9260]

You know you are a reloader when you hear people say ammo is high price or hard to find and you smile to yourself.
Also when some one say that it is hard to find some jacket bullets and you are not short of any at all because you a caster.

[Petrol & Powder]

You harbor a slight dislike for people that shoot CCI Blazer ammunition.

You oppose all forms of gun control but privately wish Berdan primers were banned worldwide or at least were color coded.

When you are shooting a 9mm you develop mixed emotions when someone shows up next to you with a .380auto or 40 S&W. You know it means more brass but it also means more difficult sorting.

You buy coffee based solely on the type of container to comes in.

You have a keen eye for unconventional sources of lead and find yourself asking the question, what's that made of?

When burning trash and a lone live primer goes off you are not startled by the pop but you are disappointed by the loss.

[giddyupgo55]

How about you have the dies brass, bullets for a caliber you don't own. ( Said rifle will on its way soon)

[LUBEDUDE]

You buy new storage sheds for brass, lead, equipment....

[mdi]

...when you spend more money on your reloading shed than you spend on your house.

But I have experienced most of the examples given; dies for a gun you don't own, shooting a few shots just to see where the empties land (very important if yer a Garand shooter), getting a crick in your neck from looking down when walking through a parking lot, parking way out in the lot to have a better chance of finding WWs, walking to the store along the curb searching for WWs. All "normal" activities...

[Hardcast416taylor]

You POUNCE on the yard sale table of plastic 3 gal. ice cream tubs with lids that are 25 for $5!Robert

[Remiel]

You buy guns just so you have a new cartridge to have fun working up some new loads.

Guilty,

You know your a relaoder when you check cast boolets and venders when you wake up and before you go to bed for ideas and new toys