Academy line for ammo

[Blwnup03]

Both times I went in I got a lb of CFE Pistol of some flavour. If I go this week I might check if they have Unique.

To be clear, I am not a fan of Dongs and much prefer Jerry's. But, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And bath in lye and shame afterwards.

I unfortunately waited until the plague and this awesome political climate before taking reloading seriously, so I will get primers/powder from anyone short of the Devil at this point.

 

[HoLeChit]

So my personal assessment is this --- you'll want to have at least two presses --- a progressive setup for common stuff and a single stage for bigger stuff. I got both a Square Deal B and a RL550 recently, but like I said, I can't get rid of my single stages just yet. From your list, either of those Dillons would work great for the pistol calibers, but the Square Deal B can't do rifle cartridges, but it seems to run excellent and very fast on the calibers it does. Faster than the 550 would for those calibers even.

Now, say you were going to load 50/338. Most likely, I'd recommend going straight to the Lee 50 BMG press. If memory serves right you can get bushings to let you use regular dies in there to load things like 308/338 as well. As @Neckbeard stated, 50 cal equipment gets high. You're looking at 300 for the Lee press/kit setup, primers are 50 cents each, bullets are 50 cents to a dollar each, and you go through about 240grains of powder per shot IIRC. Remembering that there's 7000 grains/lb you get 29 shots per pound for about a buck a shot. Add that up and you're looking at two bucks a shot minimum, and that's using pulldown bullets and powders. Point being, IMHO it's more cost/time efficient to shoot milsurp or commercial loads for 50, since most likely the 50 isn't going to send 100 rounds/session downrange.

I say all that because were you to drop the 50 out of the equation, all the calibers could be handled on a 550 or similar press with the proper investment in the conversion kits. I'm relatively new to the progressive world, but after chucking 1600 rounds out in about 6-7 hours the last few days, then holy crap, that's a great return on investment for me in terms of savings and my time. Doing those same rounds on a single stage would be probably in the 20-24 hours range of time.

EDIT: I should note as well, that part of my personal reloading strategy is that once you start talking about powder weights in the 40-50+ grain range, I much prefer to do those single stage --- just more opportunity for quality control on a charge that large.

gosh well I guess I need to start coming up with some new equipment.

 

[freewookie]

Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree entirely there.
Primers - I paid $50/k at Dong's. I had to bath three times afterwards, but they had primers. That figures out to 5 cents each.
Powder - I paid $40/lb at Dong's as I had to buy it to get the primers. At least the three showers above counted for this too. 7000 grains/lb divided by 4.6 grains in my load gives 1500 rounds/lb = 2.5 cents
Bullets - In the last month I've got 9mm from Summit City for around .07, 55gr 22 cal from midsouth for .10/ea, and lots from Powder Valley and American Reloading recently all at sane pricing. Last night I got 2k of HST pulldowns for 15 cents each.
Brass - Talk to @mouthpiece --- he's the hookup. Super reasonable on pricing. I think range pickup on average is going 2.5-3 cents per.

That's all current on purchases within the last two weeks or less.

Did you have to shoot your way out at Dong’s? Probably been a decade since I’ve been there.


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[mouthpiece]

Up until very recently 50 has been selling for about $3/round
I don't think you can reload it for $3-$3.50 round

https://www.recoilgunworks.com/federal-lake-city-m33m17-linked-ammo-100rd-p-58918.html

Shipping included
https://www.ableammo.com/catalog/fe...17-tracer-link-661618-100-rdcan-p-162344.html

https://ammunitionstore.com/products/50-bmg-ammo-m33-fmj-federal-lake-city-10-round-box.html

https://www.ammosupplywarehouse.com/east/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=32024

https://bulkmunitions.com/gun-store/50-bmg-660-690-gr-fmj-tracer-federal-xm33-xm17-100-rounds/

https://www.theamericanmarksman.com/50-BMG-Ammo_c_241.html

 

[Rez Exelon]

gosh well I guess I need to start coming up with some new equipment.

Feel free to hit me up on PM or I think you have my number. I'm happy to help!

 

[mr ed]

@HoLeChit 50BMG reloading takes its own special equipment and the components are outrageous even in noncrazy times.

Sportsworld has a big stack of CCI 35 primers for 50 cal The only primers they have and they are not locked up.
I think they are hoping someone will steal them. LOL!

 

[dennishoddy]

All this talk of protests, civil disobedience and grass roots movements...

You know what we need? We need to collectively agree to stop all ammunition purchases for 30 days.

A 30 day pause in demand would work wonders for the market, but as long as we keep acting like scared animals this madness will continue.

Nobody is acting like scared animals. The fawking neck beards are looking to make a dime and screwing the rest of us.
Your scenario would only contribute to the shortage because of additional ammo to be had for additional gouging by the neck beards.
For the record, I haven’t bought ammo or supplies in a year at least. Don’t need to and my shooting schedule continues unabated because of looking down the pipe and seeing what might happen in the future.
Sounds like the silly fakebook posts to stop buying gas for a day to strangle the oil companies.

 

[dennishoddy]

I wonder what time the first guy in line got there?

If it’s like the ads I see it’s one box of pistol ammo, one box of shotgun and one box of center fire rifle.
A “box” may be a 200 round bulk box.

 

[SMS]

Nobody is acting like scared animals. The fawking neck beards are looking to make a dime and screwing the rest of us.
Your scenario would only contribute to the shortage because of additional ammo to be had for additional gouging by the neck beards.
For the record, I haven’t bought ammo or supplies in a year at least. Don’t need to and my shooting schedule continues unabated because of looking down the pipe and seeing what might happen in the future.
Sounds like the silly fakebook posts to stop buying gas for a day to strangle the oil companies.

Well good for you. Shows you don't know squat about supply, demand, and herd behavior. Go back under your rock....

 

[Judi]

All this talk of protests, civil disobedience and grass roots movements...

You know what we need? We need to collectively agree to stop all ammunition purchases for 30 days.

A 30 day pause in demand would work wonders for the market, but as long as we keep acting like scared animals this madness will continue.

You sound like that Idiot Fauci ....need 30 days to flatten the curve....