Am I a normal....

[johnniezombie]

Except for 22LR, i buy one box of factory ammo for HD then only reloads after

[rcschummers]

Weirdos buy ammo from the store.

[stilly]

Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone, but when I buy a box of .45 or 9mm for myself, I feel very very dirty...

The only way I can do it is if I am doing it for someone else. Then I do not mind, but for me, NEVER! Why would I ever buy ammo when I can make it and lots of it?

[Pauliedad]

Normal. Well as normal as any reloader can be.


I do like to buy a box or two (preferably from a LGS to show support for them) as a benchmark for feel and the chrono.

I will say that when I bought a box of .44 special and it was steel cased I was not happy. At all.
The brass is always a side benefit.
Been drooling over a S&W .460 and I need to factor in dies and such to that decision.

[CSACANNONEER]

I am on my way to buy a bunch of dies for cartridges I have no intention of every owning. But, they are part of a "lot" of used reloading equipment. I own other dies for cartridges I probably will never own but, when I buy a new gun, the first thing I do is get dies and components for it. I even have dies for 7.35 and 6.5 Carcano, 7.62x38R, etc.

[MKT]

Sounds perfectly normal to me.

My 15 yo daughter told me she wanted a rifle, thought something in the flavor of .243. Mentioned this to a friend, who promptly gave me a box of factory .243 to ensure I buy the gun . Well before finding the right rifle I had bought a bag of new .243 brass, a couple boxes of bullets and .243 dies. When I found and bought her rifle I already had a full ladder test batch of ammo ready to run. Only used the factory to zero the scope and get a base on velocity with the chrono.

I did pretty much the same for my .308, except in stead of any factory ammo I had some 7.62 milsurp I used for a rough zero on the scope. You are not alone.

[J-cat]

Why didn't you work up a load? Is 37grs a magical charge?

[mark501w]

Wait till you buy a gun for the caliber not the gun .

[NorCalFocus]

Why didn't you work up a load? Is 37grs a magical charge?

Because I got a lot of bullets are are pulled unknowns. I won't be repeating this load I just wanted a factory load for her to shoot through the gun. The 37 grains is the median charge

[NorCalFocus]

Why didn't you work up a load? Is 37grs a magical charge?

Because I got a lot of bullets are are pulled unknowns. I won't be repeating this load I just wanted a factory load for her to shoot through the gun. The 37 grains is the median charge

[bigred1]

If I don't personally reload it then I buy it from a local bulk reloader that I know. The only factory ammo I've bought recently was some Barnes 300blk and that was just because I wanted some 110 gn copper for hunting.

[gemoose23]

Normal... I turned down some WWB when I was purchasing my M&Pc during the craziness at Sportsman warehouse...

Salesman thought I was crazy not buying any ammo with my purchase, since they only sold boxes if you purchased a firearm from them. I told him to save it for someone that needs them.

[Socalman]

You are like my friend who bought dies for caliber he does not own. He MIGHT own it someday.

[uhlan1]

Wait till you buy a gun for the caliber not the gun .

Yea, already done that. Have all this .38 and .357 brass laying around, buckets of it. So I bought bullets, case gauge, a shell plate and a S&W 686. I'm sooo addicted, I don't even particularly like revolvers. Maybe it will grow on me.