Life was hard everywhere back then. The things that we take for granted doing today that only take a few minutes or even occur without our involvement such as washing dishes or washing and drying clothes took hours back then. I’ve hung clothes on the line as my mom never had a dryer and cut wood to heat with, never to cook with. I believe that reloading for fun was not something that occurred except for the very well off where formal gun clubs were located ‘back east’. Reloading out west would have been a commercial concern done at the gunshop to make some extra money.