I Have Become an Ammo Factory

ShootingNut · June 19, 2007, 04:46 PM

Am I weird or what, it seems as of late that my urge to get to the Range, is more to bring home more brass to load!

Don't get me wrong, I love to shoot but (as a newbie) have come to really enjoy the reloading process as well.
This forum has taught me a lot. I never would have thought in the beginning, that I could tumble a finished load just to make it sparkle! In the beginning, I thought the whole thing would have blown "sky high".
Like anything I guess (including my golf "career"), you get over the "nervous nellie's", and it just get's better as you go on.
Thanks to those on this forum!
Regards

CrustyFN · June 19, 2007, 05:03 PM

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Am I weird or what,

Yes, but then I guess we all are a little. I shoot mostly at an outdoor range. I bring a bucket with me and spend at least an hour picking up brass. I have even been known to take the bucket to the range after a match to pick up brass and not even bring a gun with me.

Rusty

Mr Beta · June 19, 2007, 05:38 PM

Guilty also. Well, I never go to the range without taking a firearm of some sort, but I definitely load up on brass when I'm there. It's not uncommon for me to come home with a couple, or three hundred brass, on top of my own empties.

Trapper L · June 19, 2007, 06:32 PM

And soon you will be looking for the three pound coffee cans to put your brass in as anything smaller just won't do. Then you'll be building shelves for the three pound coffee cans. Then you'll run out of room for the shelves so now its cabinets to stuff them in. Now we are putting brass in ammo cans and sticking it in the corner. Yepper, you're on the road to being just as screwed up as the rest of us. Misery loves company and we all look forward to chatting with you.

ShootingNut · June 19, 2007, 06:36 PM

Man, thanks for the support! Me, I have a crap load of Folger's Coffee plastic
containers, small ones and BIG ones. They really do work great, RIP OFF the label, and go to it with my Black Felt Marker. I'm no getting into the "Once Fired", "Two Fired", and on and on.
Isn't this FUN?

Shoney · June 19, 2007, 07:19 PM

BEWARE THE DISEASE!

My profound condolences on your self diagnosis that you have the "disease". You are only in the beginning throws of it's rapture. It will get worse.

I predict that you will next develop a sense of “no embarrassment” when being caught going thru the garbage cans at the range.

I predict that you will next have uncontrollable anticipatory desires for finding brass and go into withdrawal as you speed recklessly to the range.

The final stage is when you are found in your darkened reloading room , a twisted grin on your face, eyes wide, wringing your hands, and deliriously rasping out the words “my precious” over and over.

BEWARE THE DISEASE!

buckster · June 19, 2007, 09:28 PM

Cleaned up those piled of Brass! Used my Lee Classic on manual and powder funnel only to get it precise. 4.6 - 5.2 grains Tite Group/ Berry's 185 HBRN's . [ 23 bad ones out of 500] The final weigh in found four 8 grams or more over so I tossed them.[ My limit is 3.4 grains.] Phew! Now I start .223!

FM12 · June 19, 2007, 09:35 PM

Check out www.handloads.com also...really nice guys there also, but dedicated to (Mostly) reloading/handloading. You'll like it there! FM12

clayking · June 19, 2007, 09:47 PM

Sams sells those big plastic jugs of pretzels that will hold about 1500 38 spl brass. I can hardly eat enough to stay ahead....................ck

FirstFreedom · June 19, 2007, 10:38 PM

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The final stage is when you are found in your darkened reloading room , a twisted grin on your face, eyes wide, wringing your hands, and deliriously rasping out the words “my precious” over and over.

LMAO! Reloading is anywhere from 1/2 to 3/4ths of the overall fun of shooting!

Slugthrower · June 19, 2007, 10:59 PM

Sounds like a bad case of Full Metal Alchemist Disorder.

KD5NRH · June 20, 2007, 03:48 AM

Brass, heck, I want a way to subtly sift their berms for the lead.

The brass is easy to come by, but with the price of cast bullets getting higher and higher, I've got more hulls than bullets in a couple of calibers.

flynlr · June 20, 2007, 03:49 AM

if this is catching then I have it too.

I either shoot so those damm bullets will get out of my brass so I can load them up again. or to have an excuse to go range low crawling for brass.

now if I could only figure out how to get my bullets back.

rgitzlaff · June 20, 2007, 08:30 AM

"I never would have thought in the beginning, that I could tumble a finished load just to make it sparkle!"

I wouldn't do that if I were you. I read that tumbling loaded rounds can break down the powder and any coating it has, making burn rate unpredictable and maybe dangerous. At the least, it's probably not too conducive to accuracy.

ShootingNut · June 20, 2007, 10:27 AM

Valid point and concern. That very thought had crossed my mind, I just started doing this after reading others saying they do. One guy said, "what do you think the factories do"?
I'm going to start a thread on this very subject, and see what comes up!
But, you may very well be right!

Whirlwind06 · June 20, 2007, 12:08 PM

I always come home with more bass then I shoot.
My buddies just shake their heads. They have already paid their range fees and are waiting while I sweep up my stall and the one on either side of me.

Usaro4 · June 20, 2007, 01:05 PM

You are definately showing the signs of early addiction. Soon your symptons will advance to buying sets of dies you have no gun for and will eventually lead to scrounging used wheelweights as well as brass.

PeteQuad · June 20, 2007, 01:45 PM

I shoot at an indoor range and would be afraid to take their brass. I would think they would want it instead, am I wrong? Maybe I will ask...

Cpl Nobbs · June 20, 2007, 01:54 PM

I get to blame my wife for my addiction. she got into Cowboy action and ya gotta keep em below 900/1000 FPS. we couldn't buy any localy. so I started to reload. then it was "well. if I'm reloading for .38. might as well get dies for 9mm" and it went from there.

I like the plastic shoe boxes. they stack better.

"I'm Cpl Nobbs and I'm a reloadaholic"....

Trapper L · June 20, 2007, 03:53 PM

ShootingNut, it's not to late to get help. You can quit now and save yourself lots of grief. But, when you start picking up brass for cartridges you don't own- it's too late. But I'll tell you how I make it work for me. If I want a gun in a specific cartridge, I pick up brass for it and give it to my brother. We'll talk about the best gun for that cartridge and I get him all worked up over it and presto!. It's worked so many times that if I could be ashamed- I would be.

mrawesome22 · June 20, 2007, 04:50 PM

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Soon your symptons will advance to buying sets of dies you have no gun for and will eventually lead to scrounging used wheelweights as well as brass.

Not to mention saving brass that you have no gun for.... yet.

Edit. Woops, Trapper beat me to it. LOL

ShootingNut · June 20, 2007, 06:04 PM

Are you guy's mind readers at the local Fair or Carnival?
Yes, I already have a pile of nice shiney .45 casings ready in my big old red Folger's plastic bucket, and I don't even have a .45 yet. But, I sure do have the "itch".

Just have to decide which one is for me!

Trapper L · June 20, 2007, 07:33 PM

Mrawesome and I work together on psychic projects all the time. We generally charge $19.95 for our services but for you there will be a special deal. Send me the discounted amount of $15.00 and then send Mrawesome $15.00. The savings will let you buy that 45 earlier than you ever dreamed. And if you include your address, I'll send you brass for yet another round you don't have a gun for and he and I will come help you burn ammo in it. Now how can you pass up a deal like that?

Special! Special! Special!

If you act now, I'll include loaded ammo for that gun you don't own yet! And we'll included an all expenses paid trip, by you, to the closest shooting range to each of us. We wouldn't want to deprive you of anything so dinner on you is also included. He likes steak, I like Mexican. What a deal!

buckster · June 28, 2007, 09:48 PM

My indoor range does not reload, so I make sure my area, and everybody else's area is clean, + 10 five gallon buckets too. [ go on a slow day], but it only feeds the addiction. One of our outdoor ranges closed, but a new one is opening up. I'm so glad to have started reloading, it taught me how bad some factory ammo is.
Hand loaders press for tighter groups!

Magdaddy · June 28, 2007, 10:09 PM

"Not to mention saving brass that you have no gun for.... yet."

Are you making fun of me ? I don't even sort it out till I get home, sometimes I even catch myself hanging around waiting for other people to leave so I can scrounge around where they were shooting. The folks at my range love me because when I leave there's ntohing left to pick up. I use my media sifter to collect the empties, helps get rid of some of the dirt and sand. Welcome to the madness.

June 19, 2007, 04:46 PM	#1
ShootingNut Senior Member Join Date: December 27, 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,475	I Have Become an Ammo Factory Am I weird or what, it seems as of late that my urge to get to the Range, is more to bring home more brass to load! Don't get me wrong, I love to shoot but (as a newbie) have come to really enjoy the reloading process as well. This forum has taught me a lot. I never would have thought in the beginning, that I could tumble a finished load just to make it sparkle! In the beginning, I thought the whole thing would have blown "sky high". Like anything I guess (including my golf "career"), you get over the "nervous nellie's", and it just get's better as you go on. Thanks to those on this forum! Regards

June 19, 2007, 05:38 PM	#3
Mr Beta Senior Member Join Date: March 13, 2007 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 232	Guilty also. Well, I never go to the range without taking a firearm of some sort, but I definitely load up on brass when I'm there. It's not uncommon for me to come home with a couple, or three hundred brass, on top of my own empties. __________________ The two loudest sounds in the world are a click when you expect a bang, and a bang when you expect a click.

June 19, 2007, 06:36 PM	#5
ShootingNut Senior Member Join Date: December 27, 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,475	TrapperL Man, thanks for the support! Me, I have a crap load of Folger's Coffee plastic containers, small ones and BIG ones. They really do work great, RIP OFF the label, and go to it with my Black Felt Marker. I'm no getting into the "Once Fired", "Two Fired", and on and on. Isn't this FUN?

June 19, 2007, 07:19 PM	#6
Shoney Senior Member Join Date: February 21, 2002 Location: Transplanted from Montana Posts: 2,311	BEWARE THE DISEASE! My profound condolences on your self diagnosis that you have the "disease". You are only in the beginning throws of it's rapture. It will get worse. I predict that you will next develop a sense of “no embarrassment” when being caught going thru the garbage cans at the range. I predict that you will next have uncontrollable anticipatory desires for finding brass and go into withdrawal as you speed recklessly to the range. The final stage is when you are found in your darkened reloading room , a twisted grin on your face, eyes wide, wringing your hands, and deliriously rasping out the words “my precious” over and over. BEWARE THE DISEASE! __________________ I pledge allegiance to the Flag - - -, and to the Republic for which it stands….Our Forefathers were brilliant for giving us a Republic, not a democracy! Do you know the difference??? and WHY?http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissue...les.asp?id=111

June 19, 2007, 09:28 PM	#7
buckster Senior Member Join Date: January 24, 2006 Posts: 674	Did 750 this weekend Cleaned up those piled of Brass! Used my Lee Classic on manual and powder funnel only to get it precise. 4.6 - 5.2 grains Tite Group/ Berry's 185 HBRN's . [ 23 bad ones out of 500] The final weigh in found four 8 grams or more over so I tossed them.[ My limit is 3.4 grains.] Phew! Now I start .223!

June 19, 2007, 06:32 PM	#4
Trapper L Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2006 Location: South Texas Posts: 804	And soon you will be looking for the three pound coffee cans to put your brass in as anything smaller just won't do. Then you'll be building shelves for the three pound coffee cans. Then you'll run out of room for the shelves so now its cabinets to stuff them in. Now we are putting brass in ammo cans and sticking it in the corner. Yepper, you're on the road to being just as screwed up as the rest of us. Misery loves company and we all look forward to chatting with you.

June 19, 2007, 09:35 PM	#8
FM12 Senior Member Join Date: February 5, 2007 Location: Monroeville, Alabama Posts: 1,683	Check out www.handloads.com also...really nice guys there also, but dedicated to (Mostly) reloading/handloading. You'll like it there! FM12

June 19, 2007, 09:47 PM	#9
clayking Senior Member Join Date: January 29, 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 796	Sams sells those big plastic jugs of pretzels that will hold about 1500 38 spl brass. I can hardly eat enough to stay ahead....................ck __________________ Never argue with an idiot, they will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

June 19, 2007, 10:59 PM	#11
Slugthrower Senior Member Join Date: October 22, 2006 Posts: 823	Sounds like a bad case of Full Metal Alchemist Disorder. __________________ History is a freak show and a dark comedy. Mankind is a spectacle all to itself. Play your role, let the jesters play theirs. In the end...who has the last laugh?

June 20, 2007, 03:48 AM	#12
KD5NRH Senior Member Join Date: August 25, 2006 Location: Stephenville TX Posts: 176	Brass, heck, I want a way to subtly sift their berms for the lead. The brass is easy to come by, but with the price of cast bullets getting higher and higher, I've got more hulls than bullets in a couple of calibers.

June 20, 2007, 03:49 AM	#13
flynlr Member Join Date: May 29, 2007 Location: In Free Utah Posts: 46	if this is catching then I have it too. I either shoot so those damm bullets will get out of my brass so I can load them up again. or to have an excuse to go range low crawling for brass. now if I could only figure out how to get my bullets back.

June 20, 2007, 08:30 AM	#14
rgitzlaff Senior Member Join Date: January 8, 2006 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 524	"I never would have thought in the beginning, that I could tumble a finished load just to make it sparkle!" I wouldn't do that if I were you. I read that tumbling loaded rounds can break down the powder and any coating it has, making burn rate unpredictable and maybe dangerous. At the least, it's probably not too conducive to accuracy.

June 20, 2007, 10:27 AM	#15
ShootingNut Senior Member Join Date: December 27, 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,475	rgitzlaff Valid point and concern. That very thought had crossed my mind, I just started doing this after reading others saying they do. One guy said, "what do you think the factories do"? I'm going to start a thread on this very subject, and see what comes up! But, you may very well be right!

June 20, 2007, 12:08 PM	#16
Whirlwind06 Senior Member Join Date: March 3, 2006 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 998	I always come home with more bass then I shoot. My buddies just shake their heads. They have already paid their range fees and are waiting while I sweep up my stall and the one on either side of me.

June 20, 2007, 01:05 PM	#17
Usaro4 Member Join Date: January 28, 2005 Location: middle TN. Posts: 50	You are definately showing the signs of early addiction. Soon your symptons will advance to buying sets of dies you have no gun for and will eventually lead to scrounging used wheelweights as well as brass.

June 20, 2007, 01:45 PM	#18
PeteQuad Senior Member Join Date: March 9, 2007 Posts: 198	I shoot at an indoor range and would be afraid to take their brass. I would think they would want it instead, am I wrong? Maybe I will ask...

June 20, 2007, 01:54 PM	#19
Cpl Nobbs Member Join Date: February 1, 2007 Posts: 65	I get to blame my wife for my addiction. she got into Cowboy action and ya gotta keep em below 900/1000 FPS. we couldn't buy any localy. so I started to reload. then it was "well. if I'm reloading for .38. might as well get dies for 9mm" and it went from there. I like the plastic shoe boxes. they stack better. "I'm Cpl Nobbs and I'm a reloadaholic"....

June 20, 2007, 03:53 PM	#20
Trapper L Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2006 Location: South Texas Posts: 804	ShootingNut, it's not to late to get help. You can quit now and save yourself lots of grief. But, when you start picking up brass for cartridges you don't own- it's too late. But I'll tell you how I make it work for me. If I want a gun in a specific cartridge, I pick up brass for it and give it to my brother. We'll talk about the best gun for that cartridge and I get him all worked up over it and presto!. It's worked so many times that if I could be ashamed- I would be.

June 20, 2007, 06:04 PM	#22
ShootingNut Senior Member Join Date: December 27, 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,475	Trapp and mrawesome Are you guy's mind readers at the local Fair or Carnival? Yes, I already have a pile of nice shiney .45 casings ready in my big old red Folger's plastic bucket, and I don't even have a .45 yet. But, I sure do have the "itch". Just have to decide which one is for me!

June 20, 2007, 07:33 PM	#23
Trapper L Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2006 Location: South Texas Posts: 804	Mrawesome and I work together on psychic projects all the time. We generally charge $19.95 for our services but for you there will be a special deal. Send me the discounted amount of $15.00 and then send Mrawesome $15.00. The savings will let you buy that 45 earlier than you ever dreamed. And if you include your address, I'll send you brass for yet another round you don't have a gun for and he and I will come help you burn ammo in it. Now how can you pass up a deal like that? Special! Special! Special! If you act now, I'll include loaded ammo for that gun you don't own yet! And we'll included an all expenses paid trip, by you, to the closest shooting range to each of us. We wouldn't want to deprive you of anything so dinner on you is also included. He likes steak, I like Mexican. What a deal!

June 28, 2007, 09:48 PM	#24
buckster Senior Member Join Date: January 24, 2006 Posts: 674	Brass My indoor range does not reload, so I make sure my area, and everybody else's area is clean, + 10 five gallon buckets too. [ go on a slow day], but it only feeds the addiction. One of our outdoor ranges closed, but a new one is opening up. I'm so glad to have started reloading, it taught me how bad some factory ammo is. Hand loaders press for tighter groups!

June 28, 2007, 10:09 PM	#25
Magdaddy Senior Member Join Date: April 30, 2007 Location: North Georgia Posts: 127	"Not to mention saving brass that you have no gun for.... yet." Are you making fun of me ? I don't even sort it out till I get home, sometimes I even catch myself hanging around waiting for other people to leave so I can scrounge around where they were shooting. The folks at my range love me because when I leave there's ntohing left to pick up. I use my media sifter to collect the empties, helps get rid of some of the dirt and sand. Welcome to the madness. __________________ Give an idiot power, and you just end up with a powerful idiot.