Do you have enough reloading equipment?

[Maximumbob54]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111


And to think I first started this to save a little money and be able to shoot more...

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I have a Dillion 550, a tempermental Hornady Lock-N-Load ,2 RCBS rock chuckers(both set-up for lock-n-load),and a Redding T-7 and a Lyman sizer; those are set up on the benches now-there are more presses put away. I also made a 20 ton case forming press in the basement. I have around 6 shotgun shell presses also. I load for 108+/- cartridges, and on some cartridges, have a set of dies for each gun in that cartridge (3-223 sets, 2-308 sets, 3-45/70 sets, ect.)I cast many different bullets and am always looking fof the "right" mould for the big black powder cartridges. I have given entire loading set-ups to the underprivliged (shooters from down under, and South Africa), and am always looking for more! I have used loading presses to seat bearings and bearing presses to load ammo. I think many people need/have a portable press and scale for at the range. And then there tong tools (I have 4 Lyman 310 tongs and 16 die sets) for that old west feeling. One of the things I hope to do, is figure out a simple way to make 8mm Saimese ammo, it seems none has existed since before WWII and I'd like to shoot the gun and maybe do the some for 11mm Italian Voletti CF, I still need the right bullet mold for 43 Reformado (it's Spanish). So many to load, so little spare time.

 

[novalty]

Been going over what I need next in my reloading bench, besides the Case Activator linkage for my RCBS Uniflow and a L.E. Wilson Small Primer Pocket Reamer, is bullets. I have in a good supply of primers to keep me shooting at my current rate for a couple years, and enough powder to fill them, finish up prepping my 357 brass, and have over 1,100 pieces each of the handgun calibers I shoot: 9mm, 38 Special, 357 Magnum, and 45 ACP.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Novalty; Maybe a bullet mold or 3. Your 38's and 357's can share and I have sized 9mm castings to .357 before, so a 124RN mould could do triple duty. Ivan

 

[rwsmith]

No, I don't

I have to buy my stuff in dribs and drabs and I haven't even gotten my basic reloading skills and equipment ironed out. It really bothers me if I buy something and it doesn't work right or very well, making me save up to buy a replacement item. Some of you guys have some jim dandy loading setups.

 

[FishingPilot]

My main "problem" is the ammo boxes. I have so many different colors and makes for so many different calibers.
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I want to get rid of them all and color code everything. Is that OCD enough

Funny. I'm just starting to reload and thought the same thing! I purchased, what i thought was enough, of each box in different colors: Light Blue for 9mm Luger, Green for .40 S&W, red for .38 Special, etc. Now I'm out of "box space" and can't find these boxes in stock anymore and I find myself looking for new boxes in significant quantities to replace the ones I have so everything matches! Best be careful though, that kind of talk could end up putting us in this new mentally challenged database.

 

[Skip Sackett]

Funny. I'm just starting to reload and thought the same thing! I purchased, what i thought was enough, of each box in different colors: Light Blue for 9mm Luger, Green for .40 S&W, red for .38 Special, etc. Now I'm out of "box space" and can't find these boxes in stock anymore and I find myself looking for new boxes in significant quantities to replace the ones I have so everything matches! Best be careful though, that kind of talk could end up putting us in this new mentally challenged database.

Don't encourage him, FishingPilot!

He changed his "handle" on this forum a while back. Do you know what it USED to be?

OCD1! Not, as in another one but as in NUMBER ONE OCD!

 

[FloridaFlier]

The truth (which I would never admit to my wife) is that reloading is a fun hobby all unto itself. I feel good when I build up a few boxes of whatever I want. I enjoy reloading for it's own sake. Sometimes, I am actually a bit disappointed to see every possible ammo box filled, and realize that I need to go shoot to make room in the boxes for more reloads. Never imagined that I would get as hooked on the hobby of reloading as I am hooked on the sport of shooting, but there it is!

 

[Cdog]

We are scroungers by nature.

The .33 WCF dies are worth $7.50 of any handloaders money. I'm down to 3 presses now. I lost count on the powder measures and hand priming tools a long time back.

I have at least 5 complete .223 die sets and about the same number of .308 dies.

Yes, I buy firearms because I have a set of dies. I have tools that I come across that were needed at the time, now I sit and wonder, "what did I use this for?"

Yea, I've got stuff!

 

[Mr Pokeyman]

I have a Dillion 550, a tempermental Hornady Lock-N-Load ,2 RCBS rock chuckers(both set-up for lock-n-load),and a Redding T-7 and a Lyman sizer; those are set up on the benches now-there are more presses put away. I also made a 20 ton case forming press in the basement. I have around 6 shotgun shell presses also. I load for 108+/- cartridges, and on some cartridges, have a set of dies for each gun in that cartridge (3-223 sets, 2-308 sets, 3-45/70 sets, ect.)I cast many different bullets and am always looking fof the "right" mould for the big black powder cartridges. I have given entire loading set-ups to the underprivliged (shooters from down under, and South Africa), and am always looking for more! I have used loading presses to seat bearings and bearing presses to load ammo. I think many people need/have a portable press and scale for at the range. And then there tong tools (I have 4 Lyman 310 tongs and 16 die sets) for that old west feeling. One of the things I hope to do, is figure out a simple way to make 8mm Saimese ammo, it seems none has existed since before WWII and I'd like to shoot the gun and maybe do the some for 11mm Italian Voletti CF, I still need the right bullet mold for 43 Reformado (it's Spanish). So many to load, so little spare time.

A 20 ton case forming press???? Are you loading mortor shells or making guided missiles? Seriously, what press would you recommend for me to get started. I only want to load 38/357, 45, 44 spl and mag. And, I only want to work with one press. I'm 66 yrs old and have asthma so I don't need a press that takes Mr America to work. I always said that when I retired I would learn how to reload for a hobby. Thanks for any advice.

 

[ladyT]

To the OP's question. NO.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Papajohn;

All that stuff and weight.........................

Is your foor or foundation settling !!

Amazing.

 

[Rule3]

Resurrect a good thread

 

[Moonman]

Rule3,

GOOD THREAD and a man's just GOTTA HAVE STUFF!

 

[Nframecollector]

I doubt that I'll ever have enough. I'm in the market now for a Redding T-7 and has anyone looked at that new RCBS single stage press, pretty cool!

 

[Maximumbob54]

Must not answer this thread a third time.... The piles have grown exponentially....

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Powder ............... Must Fine Powder ............... Powder!

Primers ............... Must Fine Primers ............... Primers!

Zombie talk for Zombie thread ...... must find Zombies!

 

[papajohn428]

I've remodeled my living room twice more since I posted that picture, each time it was to add more........stuff. I'm still using my Lee 3-hole Turret press for 95% of my reloading, and managed to crank out 1400 rounds of 40 and 45 ammo on Wednesday. I still have boxes of empty brass piled up around my chair, and I'm almost eager for winter to get here so I can get caught up on my reloading.

It never really gets better, does it?

 

[Moonman]

A sickness like the S&W addiction.

 

[Boxhead]

I have nice benches in each of my three homes. The Texas place is full tilt, the place in north Idaho covers all that I shoot there and now, living in Queensland Australia, I have a basic set up with my original 1977 vintage RCBS Jr. press, Hornady powder thrower and Dillon scale. All I await is my license to own and acquire a firearm down here. The cousre has been completed and all paperwork submitted. I await...