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Reloading
Remembering the Older Days of Reloading/Shooting
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<blockquote data-quote="epoletna" data-source="post: 2769831" data-attributes="member: 87371"><p>Well as long as we're reminiscing:</p><p></p><p>I started reloading in 1961 for my M1 carbine. I could produce .30 cal cartridges for less than I could buy .22 rimfire! Trouble is, that carbine threw the empty cases far enough I couldn't always find them. A guy in town had a gun store in his garage. He had several drums of military surplus powder, and would weigh out however much you wanted in a brown paper bag. IIRC, that powder was about $2 a pound. He also had bins of part for military surplus firearms, and I bought an entire Garand trigger assembly for something like $5.00. I used mostly CCI primers, and although I don't remember the price I know it was doggone cheap.</p><p></p><p>Those were the days. Of course I had a weekend job that paid seventy-five cents an hour, so I didn't exactly have a lot of money for reloading supplies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epoletna, post: 2769831, member: 87371"] Well as long as we're reminiscing: I started reloading in 1961 for my M1 carbine. I could produce .30 cal cartridges for less than I could buy .22 rimfire! Trouble is, that carbine threw the empty cases far enough I couldn't always find them. A guy in town had a gun store in his garage. He had several drums of military surplus powder, and would weigh out however much you wanted in a brown paper bag. IIRC, that powder was about $2 a pound. He also had bins of part for military surplus firearms, and I bought an entire Garand trigger assembly for something like $5.00. I used mostly CCI primers, and although I don't remember the price I know it was doggone cheap. Those were the days. Of course I had a weekend job that paid seventy-five cents an hour, so I didn't exactly have a lot of money for reloading supplies. [/QUOTE]
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