Chilled shot price?

[fiver]

not now.
but when I did, I had more money to buy stuff.
I must not have told you about my 25 year plan..

winters are cold and long here and I tend to get a lot of casting and brass prep done during that time of year. I shoot in the cold too [until about 20 below or so]
I load ammo in the spring until the rock chucks come out.
when it's hot enough for them to stop coming out I go fishing and shoot ground squirrels.
there is a lull in between that after the ground squirrels go underground and before hunting season starts, so I shoot and fish and shoot.
the grouse season starts right before the deer hunt which ends right when elk season starts.
so I shoot trap and cast until it gets real cold.

I could load all 600 lbs of that shot and not even go buy anything from the store.
that's only 84-8500 rounds with the loads I use.

 

[waco]

I'm only an 8-9 hour drive from you. I can come visit for extended stays right?

 

[Chris]

Sure, we are hospitable. Just fit in and help with the chores...

 

[fiver]

sure Man, I can always use some help in one of the reloading rooms.
what do you wanna work on?
pistol, rifle, or shot shell ?, casting maybe?
I need about 200 lbs of 9mm's done up and another 4-5K 22 cores are on the list right now. [I got jackets to fill]
the reloading is on the slow end for a bit but I got a few-K 223's to do [and more brass to process] about 3K 45 acp that are empty, a new box of 45 colt starline brass sitting on the floor right now, and the 44 brass is about sorted out enough to get after.
I have a 30-30 and a 41 mag project on the books and I need to make some 168gr 308 bullets for the 0-6.
I also need to work a load for a couple of 308 rifles.
of course all of that means I have to make some and shoot them then make some more and try those too.

 

[freebullet]

Fiver
It makes me feel more sane about my endeavors knowing some are further down the slope. Only need 60 more lbs of 9mm bullets, only have 1 loading room, & don't do fer shotguns yet.

I do however have enough brass prep duties to wear out 6 thumbs.

 

[fiver]

I really hate doing brass prep.
the size-trimmer is loud, and putting the vacuum on it is even louder. [or worse I have to push on the cases by hand or turn the little crank]
the swage tool works best on the kitchen island which really amuses the wife at dinner time.
then I gotta champher the case mouths and double check all the primer pockets with the pocket uniformer.
it's no wonder my hands don't work right.

those 9mm boolits are just to re-fill the brass after we empty the rest of it from the run I done this spring [it only takes @180 lbs to load 10-k rounds]
today was spent cleaning up the garage/shop some and then I boxed up 50 sumthin boxes of shot shells.
I need about another two hundred and fifty boxes to get what's loaded boxed up.
and another shelf built to store them on.

while cleaning things up I found some more shot shell hulls, some 223's and some 308 brass.
so I went downstairs to put the brass away and seen some wads the nephew took down there and I forgot about them so I hadn't put them away yet.
then noticed the water softener needed some more salt.
siiigh.

 

[Ian]

I hear ya. I need to cast about 250 more lbs of Lee TL452-230-TCs and get them powder coated (3 hrs casting, 3 hrs powder coating, 1.5 hrs sizin per thousand), then probably another 80 lbs of Lee 358-125-RFs for the .38s and get those powder coated and sized, 60 lbs of 311041s from the Lee group buy mould, powder coat and gas check some and get a load worked up, more of Josh's 75-grain .22s, and if my M1A likes these AM 31-188Gs I'll probably just order up a 4-banger in aluminum. That's in between all the other little load development projects, and runs of standard-production ammo for the .223, Blackout, and .45 ACP.

Then I just remembered I've been meaning to try powder-coating .45 Colt bullets and seeing how the fleet likes them. At least I can shoot most of the year here, so load workups don't have to wait until spring.

 

[fiver]

why did you say 300.
the wife will kill me if I forget to load her brass before ground squirrel season [again]

 

[Ian]

Remember when we just had a couple of moulds and thought a 1-lb coffee can held a lot of brass?

 

[Brad]

Yes. I also remember days when I thought bringing home 5-10 pounds of range scrap was great.

Im pretty brass poor but do have a reasonable lead stash. Biggest issue i have is chronic empty brass. Seems to empty faster than it loads.

 

[fiver]

I remember when buying a box of ammo on the way to the range meant I could shoot all 20 or 50 rounds.
because I had a little stash in the closet.
I also remember at one time having just a shot gun and probably just enough shells on hand to load it.

 

[RBHarter]

I remember when the whole reloading and casting kit fit in 1 20mm can and 5 30s that was it all the powder ,brass and tools .......I was king of the world ......... Now it's at least 2 pickup loads and I'm a pauper .........

 

[waco]

Okay. Some of you guys are doing things on a much larger scale than me. Between My wife, brother and myself I'm lucky to have time to go out and shoot up 400-500 rounds a month.

 

[Brad]

Okay. Some of you guys are doing things on a much larger scale than me. Between My wife, brother and myself I'm lucky to have time to go out and shoot up 400-500 rounds a month.

I don't shoot that many. Doesn't mean can't hoard like I shoot more!

Come on waco, dream big!

 

[waco]

I do my best to hoard all I can. My stash of supplies seems to pale in comparison to some. Still, we could shoot for many years with what I have on hand. I just added a 8lb jug of IMR3031 to the pile.

 

[fiver]

you just ain't been doing it long enough.
part of that 25 year plan was to take the first 25 years putting together the next 25 years worth of stuff.
when you find a deal on something buy all of it even if it hurts.
In a few months you'll have forgot the pain and in a couple of years you'll be glad you have it.

 

[waco]

when you find a deal on something buy all of it even if it hurts.

I've been trying to do just that. My stash of stuff has grown quite a lot over the last year or so. No kids at the house now so that helps!

 

[Chris]

well, I bought the chilled shot. Not sure how many bags but sounds like 30 or so. Been kept in a dry cellar for years, the shot and bags are in good shape.