You might be a Reloader if...

[fng]

...you save components for calibers you don't shoot. Yet.

Next...

[Denny303]

if upon arriving at the local range, you feverishly search the grounds in search of our "yeller gold"

[Bohica793]

You spend more time at the range retrieving brass and lead that you spend actually shooting....

You not only save components for calibers you do not shoot, you purchase molds and dies for calibers for which you have no firearm.....

[spotsboss]

You load up a round, look at it and say, "Now that's a work of art!"

[376Steyr]

You buy die sets for calibers you don't own, don't know anybody that has one, and probably never will. 6.5 Rem Mag, anyone?

[gunshot98]

You get up at 4:30 am, make a pot of coffee, and go to the shop to start casting boolits before anyone else, [hint hint] gets up. I love it!

[RogerDat]

You have ever sat with a big grin on your face just staring with pride of ownership at some buckets of dirty WW's or a few jugs of pistol powder.

[BNE]

You stop mid sentence in a parking lot and say "Look! A wheel weight!"

[BNE]

You look where your brass goes before you look where your bullet went. Then you think, I wonder if I can dig that Boolit out?

[Forty Rod Ray]

Most all these observations, I wholeheartedly agree with. But, and it's a big but, Brother Bohica793 shot me through the heart. Walking around looking for lead and brass is relaxing and I have spent whole sessions goofing off.

Hope to see y'all there soon...

FRR

[cephas53]

You cringe at the idea of buying a commercial box of shells.

[ffries61]

Or you have no idea what factory ammo sells for

[RogerDat]

^^^ Except every once in awhile to find out "how the other half lives".

In short just to be amazed at how much you are saving with the hundreds of $$$ spent on reloading equipment, and casting equipment, and manuals and... Oh who cares and ignore factory ammo prices for another couple of years.

[1Shirt]

You haven't shot a round of factory ammo in, you just can't remember how many years!
1Shirt!

[gwpercle]

Take your kids to the range, promise them ice cream and cake if they fill up the bags you give them with empty brass. Convince them picking is more fun than shooting!

Don't shoot semi-auto's anymore because you're getting old , have a bad back and revolvers don't toss the empties all over the place. If the kids are with me then I'll break out the 1911 and P38, they'll pick up the empties for me.
Gary

[GRUMPA]

Or you have no idea what factory ammo sells for


You haven't shot a round of factory ammo in, you just can't remember how many years!
1Shirt!

Both of those I'm guilty of, but I don't think it's a bad thing either.

Now hows this......Folks that know you reload or folks you showed off to and gave samples to now want you to load for them. Of course for "Friendship" prices or that 6-pack you always wanted.

[wallenba]

You reload shotshells from new components even though it may be cheaper to buy loaded ammo. Guilty.

You pull bullets and dump powder from factory loads just for the brass. Guilty.

[marvelshooter]

You swing past the range on the way home just to see if there is anything interesting in the brass bucket or on the ground.

[JSnover]

You will scrounge parts and materials for weeks and work for two days to fabricate a casting or reloading tool that could be bought for under $20.

[Bohica793]

You haven't shot a round of factory ammo in, you just can't remember how many years!

They make ammo in factories?!?! Wow, who would have thunk it....

[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? :bigsmyl2:

[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. :bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2::bigsmyl2:
It is good coffee.:wink::wink:

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

[bnelson06]

You empty the coffee into plastic bags so you can use the can.

[HGS]

You might be a reloader if you can't bear to shoot your reloads because you think they are to pretty and perfect to use, but you keep on loading them anyways. And like Lube says, it's a good excuse for having another small building built to store your Handloads and shooting supplies.

HGS

[oliversasha]

1--You go to range---spend too much time picking up brass/boxes--sun goes down---never got to shoot---roll eyes---guilty as charged

2-----have approx 8000 empty boxes/trays---will need if I live to be 310 years old----yes---guilty

3---Have re-shot bullets dug out of the berm----yes

[dipstick]

you may be a reloader if you think you can form just about any case you need from either '06 or 223 brass

[trapper9260]

You have more shotgun hulls then you will ever use but always looking for more, You keep looking for more brass no matter if you have all you need aready

[Jal5]

LMAO! I think I have been guilty of ALMOST all of these [emoji6]

[bear67]

I am a reloader. I have:
1. Hurried to shoot 100 factory loaded 35 Rem cartridges so I could get my own loads in the brass. I got the factory stuff in a trade for a Marlin lever.

2. We use lots of cut mixed greens for salads and I request the boss lady to buy those from the store that do not have tapered sides so I can store shotgun hulls easier. They are so easy to stack on a shelf and you can see the contents.

3. Asked wife, daughters, friends and folks at church to save square containers with lids, so I can store brass. Round containers waste valuable cabinet/shelf space.

4. Considered the labor in washing the used bedding from the reptile cages that the grandkids keep snakes and lizards in. Reptile urine and feces might react with my brass. Have not stooped this low, YET!.

Yes, I am a reloader and I might ......................................soon or in the near future.

[gunwonk]

1. Hurried to shoot 100 factory loaded 35 Rem cartridges so I could get my own loads in the brass.


Met a guy at our range with a .375 H&H, apparently with factory ammo, offering to let people shoot it. He didn't shoot it himself, and I didn't see anybody else shoot it more than once.

We figure he was a reloader, and wanted to load something more comfortable. :-)



3. Asked wife, daughters, friends and folks at church to save square containers with lids, so I can store brass. Round containers waste valuable cabinet/shelf space.


The 35 oz. size of Wal Mart peanuts comes in a square-ish clear plastic wide mouth jar that's about right to hold 100-200 pieces of rifle brass.

[Got-R-Did]

If I had to serve a year for each of the aforementioned "charges", I'd be doing Life+15 yrs.
Got-R-Did.

[GP100man]

Been doing all these things for a while !!

I think I can hear wheel weights callin from the side of the road now !!

& muffled sounds coming from the the trash barrels at the range!!

Oh yeah , I`m an addict & can stop anytime , just don`t want to !!!

GP

[3jimbo3]

You sweet talk your wife and daughter to get up at 5am and go to the range to pick up brass while you're at work.

[jakharath]

I have never done any of these things...



;)

[Iowa Fox]

You sweet talk your wife and daughter to get up at 5am and go to the range to pick up brass while you're at work.

Not a single post had anything on me until yours. My wife has picked up a lot of brass for me when we get to the range but she isn't going to get up at 5am.

[Taylor]

You will scrounge parts and materials for weeks and work for two days to fabricate a casting or reloading tool that could be bought for under $20.

Now that's me!

[Markbo]

When someone comes into your reloading area and asks you "what are those black drums for" and you tell them "almost a ton of wheel weights." And they notice the sadness on your face because you said "almost".