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at that price were the dies carbide ? If so...SCOREWell I flew back from NC the week of Thanksgiving with my Rockchucker Supreme press as well as other components aloud on an aircraft. All packed in a Pelican 1600 case. Today I found a set of RCBS .45acp dies at Walmart in Longview for $35. Should be back to loading anytime now.
I'm pretty sure they are.at that price were the dies carbide ? If so...SCORE
I'm pretty sure they are.
It's economical to reload if you practice with the same stuff you carry. Which I like to do. Or be as close as possible.Yeah but then you add the cost of the powder ... And bullets .. Then your time ... Even if you cast your own,bullets i still dont see,how it becomes econamical to reload 9mm ...
Plus I'm pretty sure you enjoy the process and custom product as much as I do. There's value in doing something you truly have passion for and enjoy in your spare moments. It beats watching football re-runs and carp tv all day.Regarding the economic practicality of loading 9mm, yes and no.
I cast and powder coat my own, and have a load I like that shoots really well. I pick up free brass off the ground at the range, and free scrap lead off the berm, so my out of pocket cost for powder and primer are about 3 cents per round.
Yes, it takes a lot of time to reclaim the scrap, cast and coat bullets, and load them up. That's a lot of hours, and it's really not "worth" the time. The money saved per hour is a fraction of my wage at work.
On the other hand, I can't justify spending $180 out of the family budget for a case of ammo, too many other obligations on that money. I can justify spending $30 on powder and primers, so that's what I do.
Plus I'm pretty sure you enjoy the process and custom product as much as I do. There's value in doing something you truly have passion for and enjoy in your spare moments. It beats watching football re-runs and carp tv all day.
I know...I know...I had to stop reloading because all of my ammo boxes were full. I almost put the lead pot away, then I built a couple of muzzle loaders and had to fire it up again.....Oh the horrors of it all...now I've got a jar full of round balls and Maxi-Balls.Sunday afternoon I cranked out another couple of .50 cal ammo cans of M855 clone ammo as well as swaged the primer crimp on 15 pounds of WCC 5.56 brass. If the number per pound charts are correct that 1850 cases. After all that I'm done pulling press handles in a cold garage for at least a few days!
Well, probably not. I have just under 2,000 62gr. bullets still sitting in their box, so I really should finish prepping the swaged cases and load them up right?
After all, it's a pain storing a bullet carton that is only 2/5 full right? Right?
Someone please talk me out of this!
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Gray box and yes new.Gray box. Green is steel and you should use lube with them. If they were new? I don't think any die manufacturer would still put steel dies for straight wall pistol on the shelves, would they?
Sunday afternoon I cranked out another couple of .50 cal ammo cans of M855 clone ammo as well as swaged the primer crimp on 15 pounds of WCC 5.56 brass. If the number per pound charts are correct that 1850 cases. After all that I'm done pulling press handles in a cold garage for at least a few days!
Well, probably not. I have just under 2,000 62gr. bullets still sitting in their box, so I really should finish prepping the swaged cases and load them up right?
After all, it's a pain storing a bullet carton that is only 2/5 full right? Right?
Someone please talk me out of this!
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I finally got a progressive early this year ... a used Dillon 550C. I resize and decap rifle brass on a single stage press so that I don't have to deal with removing lube from fully loaded rounds. I can just chuck the cases in the wet tumbler and be done with that. I also prime off the press with an old style Lee primer tool. I have not been "lucky" in getting the Dillon priming system to work very well … and it takes forever to load the primer pickup tubes, so it's actually faster to prime by hand. I do this sitting on the floor in front of the TV watching movies with my family. I go slow so that I don't make too much noise but I don't really consider the time in my overall loading. So, now finally to get to the answer of your question:What kind of setup and how long did it take you to crank that all out?