What Direction Is The Trend Headed For Reloading?

[mstlaurent]

All the scrap copper, lead, and brass is going to China now.

[Scratch705]

i'm interested in reloading in order to bring my cost down for competition shooting, but i also don't have any space nor much time to sit there and crank out ammo.

wish there can be a reloading co-op. where someone shares their equipment, i bring my own components, and i pay a hourly rate to use the equipment to reload.

kinda like internet cafes but just for reloading.

[Old Flash]

I think the hobbyist trend for assembling reloading components into cartridges is on the decline.

What say you?

Care to share your data that made you think so? Just curious since I really haven't seen anything that indicates reloading is on a decline.

[tomk556]

i'm interested in reloading in order to bring my cost down for competition shooting, but i also don't have any space nor much time to sit there and crank out ammo.

wish there can be a reloading co-op. where someone shares their equipment, i bring my own components, and i pay a hourly rate to use the equipment to reload.

kinda like internet cafes but just for reloading.

[Scratch705]

If i reload Just for competition then at least 400 rounds a month. 250 for the match and 150 for practice.

And the 250 rounds used in match is lost brass. So i would Still have to buy new brass

[SnWnMe]

I shoot 10mm and 44 Special along with 45 Colt/ACP, 38/357 and 44 Mag. Reloading won't be on the decline for me.

[tomk556]

If i reload Just for competition then at least 400 rounds a month. 250 for the match and 150 for practice.

And the 250 rounds used in match is lost brass. So i would Still have to buy new brass

What caliber? If you have to buy brass, even once fired, it’s probably not worth it to reload unless youre shooting something weird. Don’t dudes pick up the brass after the match? Most I’ve seen there are a half dozen dudes divying up the take.

But 400 really is nothing. Depending on your setup, an hour to prep and an hour to load?

[golfish]

It'll take years for me to start seeing a return on the money I have spent on reloading. I just like doing it.
I never gave 45colt a second look because the ammo was so costly and all I have ever seen was cowboy action ammo. I've been very happy with my 45colt loads out of my Winchester 92 short rifle. It's a pretty hard hitting round.

[jimmykan]

I know it's selfish, but I kinda do NOT want more gun owners to start reloading, especially Californians, because if it becomes more commonplace, the legislators will go after it.

[audiophil2]

Direction has been up and down over the long term.

[tomk556]

I know it's selfish, but I kinda do NOT want more gun owners to start reloading, especially Californians, because if it becomes more commonplace, the legislators will go after it.

[bubbala]

I know it's selfish, but I kinda do NOT want more gun owners to start reloading, especially Californians, because if it becomes more commonplace, the legislators will go after it.

as I have posted previously, both atf and doj have threatened prosecution for manufacturing ammo if students leave a class with loaded ammo .

[mosinnagantm9130]

If you shoot any sort of obscure caliber, reloading is the way to go.

[Donny1]

I like doing it, like saving money, and when I feel like ammo will become unobtainable or just over regulated (almost there) I will stock enough components to never have to buy any again. Already there with 12GA. The only thing I can't, or won't do that for is rimfire.

[golfish]

as I have posted previously, both atf and doj have threatened prosecution for manufacturing ammo if students leave a class with loaded ammo .

I wonder what they consider "Manufacturing ammo" ?

If its putting the 4 component together then wouldn't all reloaders be "Manufacturing ammo" ?