What's you most enjoyable part of loading? Needed the sister thread!

[mattw]

This is in response to the following thread: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...art-of-loading

I really felt that we needed to have the sister thread to the above thread.

For me, I love making my own bullets. This is the most satisfying stage of the reloading process. I find reloading to be as enjoyable as shooting, the older I get the more I enjoy the whole process.

[Texas by God]

Probably seating the bullet and admiring what I've just done.

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[Froogal]

I enjoy all of it, but the most satisfying aspect is when I go to the range with my reloads, and every single one of them goes BANG!!

[osteodoc08]

I love hearing the finished round plunk in the akro bin with each pull of the handle on the 550/650 and then seeing it all organized in stacks of Dillon 50/100 count boxes or a full and heavy ammo can full of plinking ammo. The whole process is enjoyable and I do itnin stages. Cast a while. Size and lube a while. Load a while.

[ShooterAZ]

The part I enjoy the most is when my load development comes together for a particular gun. Bug hole groups make me happy, I love accurate ammo!

[daloper]

I enjoy the quite when I am down stairs loading. I consider it "Me Time". Of course going to the range and making more to reload is high on the list and having others at the range ask about my colored boolits is a plus.

[FredBuddy]

Shootin' 'em.

[dverna]

Shootin' 'em.

Exactly!!! No point (or fun) in any of the rest of the process.

[lar45]

I really enjoy the whole process. Standing at the casting bench for several pot fulls of lead turning into a pile of shiny new boolits. Taking an empty brass case, sizing, seating a primer, adding powder and seating one of my cast boolits lubed with my lube. Then having a fresh round of ammo from an empty case that many would just leave lying on the ground.
Also working up an accurate load for every gun that I have, then loading up a few hundred rounds for each of them. It just makes me feel good inside.

[Ozark mike]

Fred beat me to it I'm not big on sitting around loading ammo. but shooting em that's a different story

[Winger Ed.]

I don't have a worst part, although trimming & deburring case mouths is rather tedious.

The favorite part is pulling a finished round off the press.

[Tom W.]

I like casting boolits, then seeing the results all come together into a nice shiny round that begs to be fired.....

[brass410]

listening to my dog snore while lying beside the wood stove as the wind and snow make little drifts on the window sill behind my newly loaded rows of cast bullets in gleaming brass cases and thinking of warm spring days at the range.

[stubshaft]

Emptying the cases again! Probably seating comes in second.

[Springfield]

Taking the loaded rounds out of the big ammo can and putting them in smaller boxes for my family and I to take to the range, knowing that if I didn't cast and reload we couldn't afford to shoot as many Cowboy matches as we do.

[Wheelguns 1961]

The part I enjoy the most is when my load development comes together for a particular gun. Bug hole groups make me happy, I love accurate ammo!

This is what I have become. Everything I do is to make the best most consistent ammo I can. I enjoy load development. It can take some time to get the perfect load for each gun, but when it all comes together it is great.

[mattw]

This is what I have become. Everything I do is to make the best most consistent ammo I can. I enjoy load development. It can take some time to get the perfect load for each gun, but when it all comes together it is great.

At one point, I could not agree more. My eyes have degenerated to the point that a good tight pistol group without optics just does not happen anymore. So for me, I go for the best I can on that given day. I really miss picking up a revolver and making little tiny holes out of a group.

[avogunner]

Somebody here has the "shoot2reload" handle and that fits me to a tee. Reloading is my de-stress time. I like creating my own ammo, I like shooting it, and I like doing it all over again. Thankfully I have an understanding wife because I'd hate to have to make that choice
Semper Fi.

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[Froogal]

Taking the loaded rounds out of the big ammo can and putting them in smaller boxes for my family and I to take to the range, knowing that if I didn't cast and reload we couldn't afford to shoot as many Cowboy matches as we do.

I hear you loud and clear. Wife and I both shoot cowboy action. Figure 100 rounds each for each event, and 5 to 6 matches per year adds up to a LOT of ammo, and that doesn't count what we go through when plinkin' and practicing.

[goryshaw]

The loud BANG part after I've finished.