Reloaders, please fill in the following blank.......

[C-130 Dude]

If I had to give up my_______, I would quit reloading.

For me, it would be my Giraud trimmer. Just sayin'.

 

[jebel]

"Guns"

 

[C-130 Dude]

"Guns"

Ok, I walked right into that one. I was going for equipment used in the reloading process. Which is a pretty big area. However.......

 

[jebel]

I don't think any of my equipment is so indispensable that I'd stop reloading without it, but I'd hate to go back to a less precise and much slower scale.

 

[billcaldwell]

My stash of powder and primers. Without that, I'd have to quit. But, I guess that's not what you meant either. Soooo, other than that, I'd find a "work around" and keep reloading. Period!

 

[memtb]

We don't shoot the volume that most of you shoot…..and have a minimum of high volume tools. We have owned a Dillon 600 for about 10 years…..one of these days, I'll try to figure out how to use it! About the time I was gonna put it to use…..the politics and the shortages prompted me to conserve resources!

So, I guess that there's nothing that would stop me! memtb

 

[Pdyson]

I've been reloading and only shooting my handloads for over 40years. When I bought ammo, it was to get the brass. I still have and use some of the stuff I bought way back then. Like my RC press, an MTM case tray, and various dies. When the RCBS chargemaster came out I retired my 505 scale and sold my RCBS powder measure (wish I hadn't), up till then I was still trimming cases with the Lee trimmer chucked in a hand drill. That chargemaster kicked off my reloading modernization. I love how my super trickler can throw a charge faster than I can seat a bullet. I have a 4 station electric trimmer and an annealer. I love it all, but NONE of it is irreplaceable. I would gladly fall back to the Stone Age of reloading before I would pay the prices I see on boxes of ammo.

 

[Mike D Texas]

Autotrickler.

 

[QuietTexan]

If I had to give up MY. 6.5 Creedmoor, I would quit reloading.

What's the point otherwise? Everything else takes work to dial in, this thing eats garbage and poops out .200" groups all day long

 

[Mark37082]

Can't think of anything that is irreplaceable in the reloading world in the equipment category. There always seems to be a new or better piece of equipment to tempt me. If I was shooting high volumes of something like 9mm or 223, speed and efficiency probably would drive whether it would be worth it to continue reloading. I'm not in this category.

 

[338 dude]

If I had to give up my_______, I would quit reloading.

For me, it would be my Giraud trimmer. Just sayin'.

Electronic scale/powder dispenser. If I had to go back to a beam scale, I would quit.

 

[cdherman]

And I'll offer the opposite answer: My beam scale. I have a RCBS Chargemaster auto trickler, but with large extruded powders, I am never quite satisfied, especially during work up, where I want the charge to be perfect.

Nothing quite as constant as the same Ohaus/RCBS scale from the 1980s. I know my loads over decades are being compared by one constant -- that beam scale. It gets covered all the time, babied and never abused.

If I lost my beam scale, would I stop reloading? Probably not, but its the one piece of equipment from my RCBS starter kit from 1981 that I still use every session.

To be fair, for loading a batch of something already known, I might check the chargemaster once at the beginning and then knock out 50 rounds. I'm not crazy......

 

[john k]

If the only cartridge available to load was a 6.5CM I'd quit loading. I know it veers from the question but I had to say it. Lol

 

[Ol' Red]

I can't think of anything that would stop me from reloading. OK maybe my eyesight. But that's not equipment.