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Reloading
Reloading - Is it still really worth it?
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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 2372462" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>Actually I did start to save money. Back when I was growing up and in High School, a box of 30-06 cost $7.00, but I could load about three boxes for that. So I bought a Lee Loader and a plastic hammer and started reloading. I think it cost me about $0.75 for a hundred primers, I had the casings, and the powder was about $8.00 a pound. Projectiles were about $8 or $10 a box. I could load 100 rounds of 30-06 for around $20.00, which meant I could shoot nearly 2 1/2 as much for the same price. When you're in highschool and then college on a shoe string, that's important if you want to shoot at all. I can't speak for those who started reloading in the last 25 or so years, but for those of us who started in the '60's and the '70's, most of us did it to be able to shoot more at the same dollar amount, which means to save money. Accuracy was important, but a lot of us back then had either 4 power hunting scopes or open sights. If we weren't shooting competition, we worried about enough accuracy to hit game or varmints and that was good enough. I started buying variable power scopes in the early '70's, and began being concerned with longer ranges when I started shooting prairie dogs on Mr. Houchin's pasture with something other than a .22. Before that, I shot my dad's rifles with open sights. All that changed with my first 6mm Remington and a Weaver variable 2.5 to 8 power around 1973, and it was off to the races, and I started reloading for accuracy from then on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 2372462, member: 60453"] Actually I did start to save money. Back when I was growing up and in High School, a box of 30-06 cost $7.00, but I could load about three boxes for that. So I bought a Lee Loader and a plastic hammer and started reloading. I think it cost me about $0.75 for a hundred primers, I had the casings, and the powder was about $8.00 a pound. Projectiles were about $8 or $10 a box. I could load 100 rounds of 30-06 for around $20.00, which meant I could shoot nearly 2 1/2 as much for the same price. When you're in highschool and then college on a shoe string, that's important if you want to shoot at all. I can't speak for those who started reloading in the last 25 or so years, but for those of us who started in the '60's and the '70's, most of us did it to be able to shoot more at the same dollar amount, which means to save money. Accuracy was important, but a lot of us back then had either 4 power hunting scopes or open sights. If we weren't shooting competition, we worried about enough accuracy to hit game or varmints and that was good enough. I started buying variable power scopes in the early '70's, and began being concerned with longer ranges when I started shooting prairie dogs on Mr. Houchin's pasture with something other than a .22. Before that, I shot my dad's rifles with open sights. All that changed with my first 6mm Remington and a Weaver variable 2.5 to 8 power around 1973, and it was off to the races, and I started reloading for accuracy from then on. [/QUOTE]
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