wankerjake
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I should get into casting
Do the bullets drop correct size out of the mold or do they have to be sized after casting?
Do the bullets drop correct size out of the mold or do they have to be sized after casting?
I should get into casting
Do the bullets drop correct size out of the mold or do they have to be sized after casting?
I’m a cheapskate so yeah to me it’s all expensive but I rationalize it this way.I just wish Ammo wasn’t so expensive! A case of .308 or something or the like is ridiculous.
There is another viable strategy.
Join, or organize, a gun club
Get an FFL in the name of the club.
Establish accounts with 2-3 major distributors.
Have your club secretary/treasurer take orders from numerous members before ordering, and buy in bulk. My club buys primners in lots of 500,000. Powder in cases of 8lb caddies. FMJ "ball" bullets in lots of 100,000 or more.
Believe me, it will save you a whole great big p*** pot of money.
Sized, lubed, and a gas-check crimped onto anything moving faster than ~1k fps.
There was a guy selling mystery metal (Pb, Sb, Sn...) out of Dony Park for dirt cheap if you bought enough that made pretty good projectiles out of Backpage, I have lost track of him since BP went TU.
Federal has black Friday sales going on now; with the political climate, NOW is the time to stock up
Until the Dems take over Congress, you still have an excellent guaranteed window of opportunityI know. Unfortunately, I just spent a ton of money on gifts. None left over for Ammo at the moment.
Yes, but training is important. This is a perishable skill.
There is training you can do that will help keep skills sharp, without burning up ammo. In fact, everyone should be doing it regardless.
There is training you can do that will help keep skills sharp, without burning up ammo. In fact, everyone should be doing it regardless.
Yes, dryfiring, mag reloads, target acquisition etc. however, I’m not sure my neighbors will like that too much. And I don’t like to advertise. So, most things have to be done inside or at the range. Plus there is no substitute for real training. Maybe one of these days I’ll have enough money to put a range inside my house. Lol.
Yes, dry fire is one of my most important training exercises. I used to think it was sort of a waste of time until I really started working it hard and saw what it did to my competition scores.
Me too, although most are gone now.I still have primers from before Clinton’s AWB
Well said.I've said this before but when I first started buying guns I was all over the map on calibers. I had so much tied up in guns that I couldn't afford any significant amount of ammunition for any of them.
The first big ammo panic taught me a lesson I will never forget and I promised myself that if ammunition ever became readily available I would never get caught short like that again.
I think I said it in my first post but the first thing I did was dump all of my odd ball calibers and invest the money in ammunition and magazines for the 9mm guns I kept.
The second thing we did was quit buying from Walmart. We buy all of our ammunition on line, usually from SGAmmo. We can get Blazer brass for about 4 dollars less a box online than what it costs at Walmart. We also put money aside from each paycheck and when we find a sale we buy. We have a lower limit but no upper limit. If we can afford ammunition we buy.