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<blockquote data-quote="Louisiana Reloader" data-source="post: 2800986" data-attributes="member: 123382"><p>Welcome to the forum! We are always happy to have new members who love to shoot, love to share information about accuracy and reloading, and promote the sport of responsible shooting. Now to your post: I think it all depends on where you are financially and several other factors as if you want to keep all your gun collection or not. To your point, it costs money and time to reload several different calibers and shoot many different guns. I am of a little different opinion; however I greatly respect yours. I collect guns and once in a while I will do some "horse trading" if I have something I want to part with in order to get something new. I am jealous of your Gunwerks Nexus 6.5 PRC--OMG what a rifle! You will love that rifle and it is one fine piece of equipment. I just got a SAKO S20 Hunter with a thumbhole stock in 6.5 PRC and I cannot say enough about it. Although I'm sure it will not hang with the Gunwerks Nexus 6.5 PRC, I recently shot a 1/4 MOA group at 300 yards with factory Hornady Precision Hunter143gr ELD-X ammo at my gun club. I am in the process in working up reloads for that gun and quite frankly if I can match the accuracy of the Hornady Precision Hunter 143gr ELD-X and exceed the velocity--I will be stoked. Back to your point though about parting with some rifles and getting some new ones, if you reload I use a rule of thumb when considering how many reloading components to buy. Figure the useful life of your barrel (however many shots you think that will be). Let's take your 6.5 PRC for example and say you can get 800 shots out of that barrel. Now, let's figure on how much brass you think you might need for the useful life of the barrel. Many people will give some exaggerated number of times you can reload a case. Obviously it depends on many factors: how hot your loads are; if you anneal or not, etc., etc.,. To be safe and conservative, I use a rule of thumb (for my 6.5 PRC) of a case life of 4 because I do not anneal (not yet anyway). Take your barrel useful life of 800 rounds and divide by 4 and you need at least 200 pieces of brass. Now, me personally I overkill everything and usually buy more than I need because I have the mindset that in the future our reloading components and privileges will be in jeopardy (and that might be wrong but just my opinion). So I have 500 pieces of Lapua brass for my 6.5 PRC and when I shoot that barrel out I plan on getting another 6.5 PRC. Fortunately I have been very blessed and I have had the means to start buying and securing reloading components in large volumes since 2008 (I've been reloading since 1993 but only in recent years started really picking up components as they came available) and I have enough now to last a lifetime and pass along to my son-in-law and future generations in hopes that they will like to reload and enjoy shooting. So, I totally respect your decision to slim down some (and certainly to purchase the Gunwerks Nexus 6.5 and 300 PRC rifles--wow!) and wish you all the best. Hope my info was helpful and happy shooting and keep your groups tight!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Louisiana Reloader, post: 2800986, member: 123382"] Welcome to the forum! We are always happy to have new members who love to shoot, love to share information about accuracy and reloading, and promote the sport of responsible shooting. Now to your post: I think it all depends on where you are financially and several other factors as if you want to keep all your gun collection or not. To your point, it costs money and time to reload several different calibers and shoot many different guns. I am of a little different opinion; however I greatly respect yours. I collect guns and once in a while I will do some "horse trading" if I have something I want to part with in order to get something new. I am jealous of your Gunwerks Nexus 6.5 PRC--OMG what a rifle! You will love that rifle and it is one fine piece of equipment. I just got a SAKO S20 Hunter with a thumbhole stock in 6.5 PRC and I cannot say enough about it. Although I'm sure it will not hang with the Gunwerks Nexus 6.5 PRC, I recently shot a 1/4 MOA group at 300 yards with factory Hornady Precision Hunter143gr ELD-X ammo at my gun club. I am in the process in working up reloads for that gun and quite frankly if I can match the accuracy of the Hornady Precision Hunter 143gr ELD-X and exceed the velocity--I will be stoked. Back to your point though about parting with some rifles and getting some new ones, if you reload I use a rule of thumb when considering how many reloading components to buy. Figure the useful life of your barrel (however many shots you think that will be). Let's take your 6.5 PRC for example and say you can get 800 shots out of that barrel. Now, let's figure on how much brass you think you might need for the useful life of the barrel. Many people will give some exaggerated number of times you can reload a case. Obviously it depends on many factors: how hot your loads are; if you anneal or not, etc., etc.,. To be safe and conservative, I use a rule of thumb (for my 6.5 PRC) of a case life of 4 because I do not anneal (not yet anyway). Take your barrel useful life of 800 rounds and divide by 4 and you need at least 200 pieces of brass. Now, me personally I overkill everything and usually buy more than I need because I have the mindset that in the future our reloading components and privileges will be in jeopardy (and that might be wrong but just my opinion). So I have 500 pieces of Lapua brass for my 6.5 PRC and when I shoot that barrel out I plan on getting another 6.5 PRC. Fortunately I have been very blessed and I have had the means to start buying and securing reloading components in large volumes since 2008 (I've been reloading since 1993 but only in recent years started really picking up components as they came available) and I have enough now to last a lifetime and pass along to my son-in-law and future generations in hopes that they will like to reload and enjoy shooting. So, I totally respect your decision to slim down some (and certainly to purchase the Gunwerks Nexus 6.5 and 300 PRC rifles--wow!) and wish you all the best. Hope my info was helpful and happy shooting and keep your groups tight! [/QUOTE]
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