2021 Reloading Goals

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# 1 Fire what I reloaded in the last nine months

# 2 Learn to cast lead...finally after many false starts

#3 If and when scarcity of components eases get twice as much as I have now....which is substantial.
 
For me its not about what I can buy or not buy. Its like Gifbohane said, learn how to properly cast lead. Get a teacher if needed. I am in the Syracuse area, be glad to pay someone to learn a new skill set.
 
Hopefully end up with twice what I started with when the pandemic hit. I still have a good two year supply now with shooting 50 rounds a week of 9mm and .357mag.
Maybe shoot less defensive and more for accuracy.
Get a higher end 9mm pistol, (I'm looking at a Sig Legion 5") and buckle down and make the most accurate loads for it I can make. I suspect I'm already making them, but I want to prove it to myself again.
I have the presses that I want and don't really need any more equipment, but would like to have Hornady's Precision Measurement Station.
I would like to start shooting rifle again at longer ranges than 100 yds.
Get a better scope for my Browning 81.
Sell off some of my pre 64 rifles to buy guns I'll actually shoot. (I inherited them and will never use them).
So I'm planning a few new adventures.
 
My 2021 list:

  • Work up match and hunting loads for a bunch of rifles (6mm ARC, 6.5 PRC, 6.5 CM, .308 Win, .300 WM)
  • Work up 9mm subsonic loads for the B&T TP9-N
  • Improve my rifle load development process
  • Keep and maintain better handloading notes
  • Add a Redding 10X to the Dillon 550
  • Anneal a lot of brass with the new AMP annealer
  • Buy an ultrasonic cleaner
  • Buy a Giraud case trimmer
  • Get my reloading room organized and efficient and keep it that way
  • Buy more components
 
One of my favorite grandsons bought a Makarov, I bought the dies, and projectiles, now to make a bunch of 9x19 into MAK brass...it's been a slow start, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Would be nice if he came over and trimmed a few cases now and then...
 
•Finalize hunt loads in .308
•Find/finalize hunt loads in .243
•Get in the 1500yd club with my 6.5 CM load
•Keep playing with 7mm RM and different powders
•Lots and lots of Primers


And just get better at reloading, pay more attention to details, and get better at recording everything/better notes!
 
I will be going into 2021 with every piece of brass I own reloaded. In theory I should be able to maintain inventory levels with what I own for quite some time.
Going to add a Lee Breech Lock Pro if they are ever back in stock.
 
Hoping to spend more time at the range in 2021 concentrating on working with my wife and her skills with her Ruger .357 mag LCR. Also hope to spend more time in the reloading room working up various loads. I need to consolidate all my loading notes into a bound notebook and keep it organized.
 
I will be casting in 2021. I just bought a huge casting lot with moulds, sizers and hundreds of pounds of lead. I also hope to purchase more components as they become available and prices return to some normalcy.
David
 
Finish load development for a number of rifles in Ackley Improved cartridges: 280 AI, 260 AI, 243 AI, and 22-250 AI. I have shootable loads in all of these, but I know I can do better with some serious experimentation.
 
dh1633pm said:
For me its not about what I can buy or not buy. Its like Gifbohane said, learn how to properly cast lead. Get a teacher if needed. I am in the Syracuse area, be glad to pay someone to learn a new skill set.
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Post on the castboolits forum and you may find someone local.
 
South Prairie Jim said:
I doubt im qualified to make quality projectiles, ill tip my hat and say that thanks to those fellas that do such a incredible job of producing them.
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Don't sell yourself short. At least for handgun projectiles, making quality bullets is not difficult but you do need to have the drive and desire to make the effort.

But, different strokes for different folks. Everyone has different priorities for their available free time and that is OK and a fact of life. There are lots of good projectiles available on the commercial market once normalcy returns.:)
 
Get better organized and upgrade some equipment in order to spend less time picking up primers off the floor.
 
Obturation said:
My 2021 goal is to be able to shoot a normal amount (for me) and not be any lower on components than I am right now.
Wishful thinking? Maybe.
But I do have a couple toddlers that keep me busy and off the range a lot. I don't mind much.
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Same here. I'm in the process of teaching an 18 month old and a 2 1/2 year old that ear muffs stay on when we're shooting.
It has tearned into a two adult operation.
The older one knows not to point his toy rifle at people at least.
 
I'd like to finish the database I started back May-ish. Not all the data entry, I figure I can do that as needed. Just get the relationships and search functions built.
 
Find a 1050 or 1100 used at a good price. Get out and shot every caliber I load for as much as possible.

Test more and find my ultimate go to load to make a stock pile of.
 
1. Use the Lee turret I got for Christmas, to load 9mm.
2. Work up .223 loads for my new Wylde barrel.
3. Shoot my factory 9mm, make better reloads.
4. Figure out a cooling solution for my new reloading room (I claimed the extra 1 car garage)
 
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