Will reloading disapear with the new too lazy to do it generation

Muddy, I agree regarding the right now generation.

Never ordered from a rifle component catalog though but I studied many, many ballistics charts in magazines to understand that. I had memorized the ballistics for a 270 win and 130 bullet by 25 yd increments. I did finally have a lazer range finder in the early '80s IIRC.
 
Its not just reloading with many of the "younger" gens, for I encounter far too many "men" today who can't do basic house repairs without calling someone in and paying. Things many of use grew up learning from dad or figuring out on our own seems to be beyond many today.

And to top that, I've met a few "men" on the roadside who were waiting for AAA or other to have a flat tire changed with the spare in their car. They can't even plug a tire nor use, dare I say, Fix-a-Flat.
 
As long as we have guns, it'll never go away! Maybe fewer will do it but when I started in the early 60's there was only one guy selling components in his basement in my area and we had quite a few gun stores in town, It was not a very big hobby back then and few did it! However, from what I see on Facebook, they may weed themselves out because of stupidity! A young fellow came on one of the gun Facebook pages I'm on and said he had a stuck case (brass) in a chamber and wondered if it might be dangerous if he lined up another gun to the barrel of the stuck case -- and shot it out?
 
Will churning your own butter disappear with the boomer generation who is too lazy to do it themselves?

It's better than the store bought stuff. The only excuses to not churn your own butter is pure laziness. That generation wants instant gratification of just grabbing it off the shelf at the store w/o putting in the effort. Such a shame.
 
Crockett12 said:
As long as we have guns, it'll never go away! Maybe fewer will do it but when I started in the early 60's there was only one guy selling components in his basement in my area and we had quite a few gun stores in town, It was not a very big hobby back then and few did it! However, from what I see on Facebook, they may weed themselves out because of stupidity! A young fellow came on one of the gun Facebook pages I'm on and said he had a stuck case (brass) in a chamber and wondered if it might be dangerous if he lined up another gun to the barrel of the stuck case -- and shot it out?
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Well, we can hope they were just trying to be funny 🤣
 
MarkInPA said:
I am hesitant to say this because I am sure there are people who would vehemently disagree with me. I am going to make a statement about my home state of Pennsylvania, and I may be painting with too broad a brush. At least the central parts of the state that I am familiar with, our game commission tells us that our state forest land is incapable of holding large populations of deer anymore. The habitat is not there anymore to provide feed and cover. I'm not arguing if it is right or wrong. It's just the way they see it. So they manage the state forest so that they have extremely low game populations. The issue is that this is the precise location where most people have access to hunt. So if they are going to hunt, this means they have to accept that they are hunting in areas with low game populations and it is going to take more effort to find game. You may go days without finding anything. This extra effort is going to deter some people from participating. Especially younger people who have other interest vying for their time. The older guys are trying to hold onto memories, and a time they remember in their youth.
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Same story here in the northern part of WI.

Despite widespread and ongoing logging, they keep pushing the narrative that the forest isn't capable of handling as many deer as many of us had experienced in the 80's and 90's and early 2000's. In our area they are logging as much as I've ever encountered, so that explanation can be dried out out and used to fertilize the food plots on private ground.

Meanwhile, in the areas of the state that aren't managed by the DNR due to being mostly private, there's as many deer and large bucks as ever.

So, I agree with those who point out that public land hunting isn't near what it used to be in many parts of the country, which negatively affects people getting
and staying in hurting/shooting.
 
buzby said:
Will churning your own butter disappear with the boomer generation who is too lazy to do it themselves?

It's better than the store bought stuff. The only excuses to not churn your own butter is pure laziness. That generation wants instant gratification of just grabbing it off the shelf at the store w/o putting in the effort. Such a shame.
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I wonder if they cut firewood with a crosscut handsaw? Or do they use a gas powered or gasp an electric chainsaw???
 
CMP70306 said:
On the flip side there are only so many hours in the day and spending hours doing something to save a few bucks doesn't always make sense. I'll reload my larger hunting cartridges as I can both save money and only shoot maybe 100 or 200 a year but for .223, 9mm and 300 blackout there simply isn't enough incentive to justify the hours it would take.



I mean I'm 34, I taught myself to reload at 20 to save money when I bought a 300 Win Mag. Several thousand dollars in reloading gear later and for most of my ammo now I'm basically duplicating factory ammo but saving a dollar or two a round. My 45-70 and my .300 Win Mag are really the only thing that I'm loading different than factory.

But even with all my reloading gear between tumbling, sizing, cleaning, trimming, priming and loading it works out to roughly 2 to 3 minutes per cartridge start to finish. If I load 1,000 rounds a year that's upwards of 50 hours doing nothing but reloading. With a full time job, a family and weekends away from my reloading bench that's the better part of a 2 months of my evening time after my son goes to bed.
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Reloading doesn't save any money. Any more than making your own beer does. Any hobby where you take something that is mass produced and instead make it boutique and a lot more manual labor cannot possibly save money.
If someone says they reload to save money, they failed 3rd grade math.
 
akmtnhnt said:
Reloading doesn't save any money. Any more than making your own beer does. Any hobby where you take something that is mass produced and instead make it boutique and a lot more manual labor cannot possibly save money.
If someone says they reload to save money, they failed 3rd grade math.
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It's cheaper if you got all the equipment for free, brass from the range box, powder 10 years ago, primers 20 years ago, midway factory second bullets and not factoring in your own time away from family or work to do it.
 
Somebody needs to do a post showing all the math involved. A post showing all the actual prices. Price per primer. Price per powder charge. Price per bullet. Add all that up for a price per round. Then multiply by 20 for a box of shells and then compare that cost to a store-bought box of shells.
 
MarkInPA said:
Somebody needs to do a post showing all the math involved. A post showing all the actual prices. Price per primer. Price per powder charge. Price per bullet. Add all that up for a price per round. Then multiply by 20 for a box of shells and then compare that cost to a store-bought box of shells.
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I learned a long time ago, don't suggest someone do something unless you're willing to do it yourself!
 

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