Components for cartridges you don’t shoot?

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Do you buy and keep components for cartridges you don’t shoot?

I’m always buying brass when I see it even if I don’t have a firearm for that cartridge yet.

Examples are: .348 win, .35 rem, .44 rem…. I go back and forth on the 44 even though I shoot plenty of 45 colt.

I still keep .32 long and some others around which I never shoot, but I do have the gun. Usually someone gave me it; family.

It’s just that paranoia / hoarder mentality that keeps the shelves growing. I’m going to want it and won’t be able to find it.

All these Christmas sale emails aren’t going to help either when day after gets here!
 
styles said:
Do you buy and keep components for cartridges you don’t shoot?

I’m always buying brass when I see it even if I don’t have a firearm for that cartridge yet.

Examples are: .348 win, .35 rem, .44 rem…. I go back and forth on the 44 even though I shoot plenty of 45 colt.

I still keep .32 long and some others around which I never shoot, but I do have the gun. Usually someone gave me it; family.

It’s just that paranoia / hoarder mentality that keeps the shelves growing. I’m going to want it and won’t be able to find it.

All these Christmas sale emails aren’t going to help either when day after gets here!
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I ended up with a big pile of stuff I can't shoot from my dad, I trade with fellow members here.... I don't buy new items I can't use.
 
No, honestly I don't. I use my money for components I do need. This stuff is getting expensive. I almost bought some 41 Special brass for my 41 magnum, but then thought, Why?
I'll never use it.
I have too many other things I need like primers and powder, and the Garmin C1 chronograph. I'm not I buying it until I know the problems with it are mitigated.
If there is a bad one sent out, I'm pretty sure I'll be the one to get it.
I can see the allore of wanting an inventory of the obsolete and hard to get though, I just can't afford it.
 
I have been buying components for .308W. When I see decent price for bullets, I'll buy. I have an upper and lower DPMS that I'm slowly building toward the .308W. I'm still about a $1k away from completion. I have everything but a die set to reload for it.
Casings that I pick up off the ground that I don't reload for are usually for trade or pay-it- forward.
 
AJC1 said:
I ended up with a big pile of stuff I can't shoot from my dad, I trade with fellow members here.... I don't buy new items I can't use.
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Like you, my dad sends me stuff; .30-06 brass, (I currently don't own one) AR doodads, .45 ammo, etc. My sister should start charging him freight! (She visits him more than I can, and now lives down there in TX but comes up here.)
I also collect range brass, a friend just gave me about 1500 old AA 12 ga. hulls yesterday, but I generally don't buy stuff I know I'm not going to use.
 
YES! I hordes brass and dies! but I’m running out of space.

about 10 years ago, I bought .375 H&H brass & die becuse I wanted to get a #1 and pretend to shoot elephants… Well, I don’t really like recoil anymore…. so????!!!!????

don’t ask me about .50 BMG brass! lol
 
The weird stuff at a good price. I'll buy primarily to give away at some later date.......

Hoarding components and reloading gear is a great way to spend a ton of money on guns.... My most expensive single firearms purchase originated from a $9 set of dies.
 
styles said:
Do you buy and keep components for cartridges you don’t shoot?
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To me, that would seem like buying a 5-gallon can of diesel fuel, or a 16" pickup truck tire and storing it in the shed out in back of the house. I've never had a vehicle with a diesel engine in it, and I haven't had a pickup truck with 16" rims since 1985. ;)
 
It's easy enough to do. Most of us that don't always know what our next gun acquisition will be have came home with a gun and had no way of shooting it. Obsolete, uncommon, etc...
There's a lot of overlap on bullets, primers, and powder but not nearly so much with brass and dies. I did intend to put dates on any oddball crap I pick up for a 5 year limit. Never did that either.
 
Last month I tossed a dozen older Federal 7mmRemMag. I haven’t had a rifle in that caliber since 2008.

Pretty close to the same time I sold my Imperial Reichs Revolver but I still have a plastic box of BP handloads and some cut down .44Russian brass for it.

I guess it’s about time to let them go, too.

Yes, I do keep some extraneous crap but I don’t know why.
 
I gather a lot of range brass. I sell the more common rifle calibers in lots of 100 locally. The less common brass calibers get tossed into a 5 gallon buckets. I eventually will sort it and offering in the buy and sell forum here.

The less common brass buckets came in handy when the right priced 7mm-08 showed up a my LGS. I didn't have to buy brass for it.

Years ago I bought dies, brass, bullets, primers and powder for 44 Mag. I bought a 6" S&W mod 29 about 8 months later.
 
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