You ever just get content?

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Not much point in me working up loads for accuracy w/pistol as I have some physical conditions that limit my potential.
One being 'mono-vision' contact lenses. Right eye Rx is dialed in for distance, left eye for close up. By switching eyes, I can clearly see either the sights or the target, but not both at the same time! :cuss:

I have lots more fun w/rifle on a bench as long as I'm using a Scope. Even then, I eventually tire of shooting the same load over and over, so I like to mix things up.
 
.38 Special said:
I was. My favorite loads in my favorite cartridges were worked out many decades ago, mostly by people like Elmer Keith. Those loads did everything I wanted and I could never come up with anything better. The trouble is that they all depend on Alliant powders, and I'm nearly out. I've been more-or-less thrown back into the "working up loads" game, and I'm not getting the kind of enjoyment out of it that I used to. Stupid end of the world.
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Just switch to H110, Universal and Titegroup.
Those 3 cover the entire range of usage.
Load workup is easy with them also.
This is for pistol cartridges.
 
I’m wanting to give titegroup a try in 44 special. I used it a few years back before my life became “special”. I have an 8lb keg of bullseye, which will last until I have the chance to find something else or more bullseye.

I am dangerously low on unique with only a couple pounds.

I want to try some of the shooters world powders too, I got it bad.
 
AJC1 said:
One would also say that shooters world is just as available and can be bought in volume cheaper for better longevity of loads.
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True. I just started using shooters world before this train wreck started. It was showing promise. But I don't want to waste components testing.
I was looking at the amount of testing that has been done with the 3 powders I mentioned.
H110 is pretty much fill the case to the bottom of the bullet. Universal has a huge accuracy window. Titegroup has been beat to death for years.
 
For rifle I have some dialed in loads my 6.5 and 243, and 223 varmint I like. For rimfire I have tested loads they like. For SD I buy ammo, for handgun plinking and practice I generally load lower to middle of band and work up for a fairly accurate load I rarely go above mid load data for this.

so I guess yeah, I’m content for the most part as long as I can find the powders I use.
 
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Bfh_auto said:
True. I just started using shooters world before this train wreck started. It was showing promise. But I don't want to waste components testing.
I was looking at the amount of testing that has been done with the 3 powders I mentioned.
H110 is pretty much fill the case to the bottom of the bullet. Universal has a huge accuracy window. Titegroup has been beat to death for years.
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I was looking at shooters world as well but Midsouth had a sale so I went and picked up my last jugs of bullseye, be-86, and a few more cases of primers. Things could at some point work out that I may give shooters world a try, and that could be fun.
 
Skgreen said:
…One being 'mono-vision' contact lenses. Right eye Rx is dialed in for distance, left eye for close up. By switching eyes, I can clearly see either the sights or the target, but not both at the same time! :cuss:
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When I had my catarac surgery, they did one eye at a time about a month apart. I got distant vision implants and it drove me nuts to have one eye that could see close in (before surgery) and the other that could not see close in (after surgery). For driving, I took a pair of my old prescription glasses and popped the lense out for the repaired eye.

Apologizes for drifting off topic.
 
Having a frugal father who grew up through the end of the depression and the rationing of WWII, I learned early in life that you shouldn't take things for granted. He handloaded back from the early 60s through the mid 70s mainly in order to have hunting ammo. I learned the true meaning of the old saying about the man with one rifle, he knew how to use it.

I picked up loading in the early 70s and have had years when I tested this, that, or the other, only to wind up back with a staple load I already had. During snd after the first real pinch back in the 90's I decided to try and make a go of reducing my overall inventory. I picked through all of my manuals for powders which could for the most part load all of my rifles and handguns. I chose a fast, medium, and slow, for both. They might not be the end all absolute best, but they're all accurate and reduced my needs.

For the most part with Bullseye, Unique, AA-9, H4895, H4831, and Ramshot Magnum, I can cover all my needs. Primers we're a big issue with both the previous panicked buys so when things were good we stored them up. With the upbringing I had though, my three grandsons will undoubtedly be able to carry on for a while. All of our arms have a load that get it done, and we have practice loads as well. By taking up casting, and teaching the boys, we've taken a step into areas not tread by my pop which allows us to practice, recover our bullets, and reuse the alloy. That keeps our jacketed inventory for hunting purposes in good supply.
 
I am down to 5 pistols and no long guns now and am content loading for 380 acp, 357, and 38 special. I have about 3# of AA#2 that I need to use, and am using up old powder (AA#7 for example) one pound at a time.

Trying to get used to more physical limitations on recoil, so I am grateful that I can reload some accurate, pleasant to shoot rounds.

The ongoing challenge is to look for primers at the local gun stores and other places when I travel.

Overall, grateful to still be vertical and on the topside.

Great thread here, we need more contentment!
 
Content, hum, never.
Have go to loads? Sure, both rifle and handgun, so not driven there.
Most therapeutic range time now spent with 38 spc 148 WC over 2.7 BE from a fixed sight snubnose at 25 yards.
But I still do regularly develop on going reloading quests.
Three going right now,
.30-06 Garand,
7.62x54R 91/30,
and 6.5 Carcano Terni and 1876 Vetterilli.
Hey, I’m a sucker for milsurps!
Content? Never, “so many quests, so little time”
 
We're all at different phases: some still just curious, some starting out, some diving deep into the thick of it, some have discovered their favorites and some now content. Hadn't realized it until just now, but I'm probably in the content phase.

We all go through the phases at different rates, changing from one to the next (and maybe back again) for different reasons. The challenge is to stay positive and keep encouraging those behind us while learning from those ahead. We're in it together.
 
I'm not built to be content, sure I have many loads that I'm very content with but once I get there it's on to another. And I'm so far behind right now, I'll never get content.
 
Nope. I like reloading, all aspects. I enjoy researching/trying different combinations of powders, bullets, crimps, OAL etc. in different guns. I do have my "JIC" and my standard loads, but reloading would get boring if I used the same bullet over the same charge of the same powder every time. I just got some 9mm Nuke bullets and a bottle of Green Dot that opens up a few months of load work ups and shooting...
 
Let me see

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Both shot from a ransom rest.
 
Rifle I should say I’m good because I have accurate loads for all the hunting rifles except the 22-250 I’m almost done building.

That said, 2 of those rifles perform best with RL22. For years I’ve heard about the temperature sensitivity of this power. So I have a couple lbs of RL23 to try.

The wife’s 7-08 loves H414, which I haven’t seen in years. I still have the data for the RL19 loads that came in a close 2nd, and the data on the IMR 4350 which I have a bunch of.

And I bought a few lbs of 4451 to try also in another rifle.

And a couple of lbs of RL16 I haven’t found a use for. So on the rifle front, where I thought I was good as I started typing this, I still have a lot of developing to do.

Don’t get me started on pistol.
 
Well with some help I was able to build a new “precision” AR and I’m back at square one again. I had a few loads built for me Savage I tried out last weekend that looked promising, but I have 4 more bullets to try and 2 more powders as well.

Case of rum, case of rum they say.
 
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