A crazy confession.

[rwt101]

I think I have inhaled too much lead fumes? I enjoy casting boolits--I enjoy preparing the brass --I enjoy reloading --I enjoy working on my pistols and rifles, but I don't enjoy shooting them that much!!!!! Am I totally wacko?

Bob T

[1Shirt]

What ever floats your boat. Am sure there are some around that would be happy to shoot what you are willing to load.
1Shirt!

[Tazman1602]

No, don't think so. I get equal enjoyment from casting and reloading as I do out of shooting my guns. But what I REALLY like is fixin' someone up who's a much better shooter than I am with the right ammo/load because he can't do that as well as I can.

Older I get, worse my eyes get and better my skills at casting and reloading get...............

[Heavy lead]

I love to shoot and do enjoy to cast, reload and accurize rifles, handguns, you name it. But in the last year I've truly enjoyed watching my 15 year old nephew learn to shoot, hunt, and reload under good supervision, he's doing a good job and learning what I think is the right way, it's much more fun cranking out a couple hundred .357's some 12 gauge target loads and some other assorted rifle loads for our weakly sessions at the range so we can spend time at the range and not in the basement. I almost would rather spot for him at the 200 yard range while he's shooting prone than shoot myself.

[geargnasher]

I think I have inhaled too much lead fumes? I enjoy casting boolits--I enjoy preparing the brass --I enjoy reloading --I enjoy working on my pistols and rifles, but I don't enjoy shooting them that much!!!!! Am I totally wacko?

Bob T

Yes, you are totally nuts and need to move to the Texas Hill Country where you can rehabilitate by keeping my wife's .38 fed!

Gear

[docone31]

It is almost a disappointment to me to fire my rifles.
First of all, I am hard of seeing. My rifles constantly outshoot me. I rarely bother to put up a target anymore. I use whatever is on the back drop.
I love the knowing though.
Let those young pups blaze away. My wife can outshoot them.
I really enjoy assisting her in her shooting.
That really makes it worthwhile.

[Mrs.Geargnasher]

Yes, you are totally nuts and need to move to the Texas Hill Country where you can rehabilitate by keeping my wife's .38 fed!

Gear

I agree...

[RobS]

I reload so I can shoot!!!! I like to make the best load for the best bullet for whatever application I am working on. I buy different molds so I can start all over again or at least that is what my wife thinks. You are not crazy at all.

As long as you are enjoying yourself........................carry on, carry on!!!!

[autofix4u]

Nope your not crazy, some times I think I shoot just so can handload, and a fresh box of range brass makes my happy!!!!
Lately my kids shoot & I spot. My 13 year old girls are better shooters than I ever was. If you have never seen a teenage girl empty a 44mag, its scary.

[DeanoBeanCounter]

Just remember. People who don't think they are crazy.....are.
Dean

[lwknight]

I started reloading so I could afford to shoot. Then I started having to shoot so I could reload. Then I started casting so I could reload. Now I shoot so I can reload so I can cast.

To the OP: You sound like you are a real gun smith at heart.

[captaint]

Crazy?? No. I've told people a million times - if I just bought ammo and shot it up, shootin just wouldn't be that fun. It's like OK lets see what THIS load can do. We all know that one day were going to shoot 5 or 6 or 8 and there is going to be just one small hole in the paper. Good thing it hasn't happened yet, cause, then what??? enjoy Mike

[Ed Barrett]

Insanity is supposed to be doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Which seems to fit most of the benchrest shooters I know to a tee.

[lwknight]

I used to be a bench shooter. Shooting paper is boooorring!!! I think bench shooting is to prove out accuracy and sight adjustment. Then let the fun begin. Offhand moving targets is where its at.

[WILCO]

Am I totally wacko?

Yep. Save youself! Put all your gear into a crate and ship it to me.

[Wayne Smith]

No, not crazy. For most of us the creative urges need to be satisfied. For those of us in positions that do not allow that or that do not allow the experience of completion our hobbies take on that role. Reloading is more creative than shooting and casting is even more creative. When you add needs to be productive to the creative urges the greater the challenge and the more variables that can be manupulated the better. Having all those bright brass cases filled and tipped with lead is satisfying in and of itself. Shooting is the bonus.

[HORNET]

captaint said:

We all know that one day were going to shoot 5 or 6 or 8 and there is going to be just one small hole in the paper.

I've done that....all the other boolits missed the sheet completely.

[redneckdan]

For me its more fun to acquire the parts and build the rifle than it is to shoot it.

[largom]

Crazy?? No. I've told people a million times - if I just bought ammo and shot it up, shootin just wouldn't be that fun. It's like OK lets see what THIS load can do. We all know that one day were going to shoot 5 or 6 or 8 and there is going to be just one small hole in the paper. Good thing it hasn't happened yet, cause, then what??? enjoy Mike

captaint has the answer. Going out and shooting a 2 in. group at 100 yds. is not fun or much of a challenge. Trying to put them all in one hole IS a challenge. I try to make my HANDLOADS [not reloads] as precise as possible. I work the gun, bedding, trigger, throat, etc. I weigh brass, weigh boolits, weigh powder, change the load, well you know. I truly love Handloading and making ammo better than any factory. I like to shoot also and have my own 350 yd. range set up in 50 yd. stages. And IF I ever do shoot that one hole group, then there is a safe full of other guns/calibers to try next.

Larry

[RayinNH]

For me its more fun to acquire the parts and build the rifle than it is to shoot it.

Dan that's a sure sign you need to build smaller caliber rifles ...Ray