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Posted: 2/17/2015 3:29:48 PM EDT
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Reloader: One who reloads so that they can shoot more often, more inexpensively, or more accurately. May enjoy the added hobby or may just reload out of necessity. Hard Core Reloader: One who shoots so that they can reload! |
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Reloaders who shoot. Shooters who reload. When you are loading up a caliber for a rifle you don't own yet.............yeah, that was me last year.  Sir, just to make you feel better: During one of my range trips a few years ago one of the range officers gave me a box of 243 cartridges that had been returned to them with only one round fired. While I didn't own a 243 at that time and told them so they insisted they couldn't put it back in stock with one round having been fired. They told me they would have to throw it away if I didn't take it. Well, I took it. It bothered me enough that it really didn't take long for me to acquire a rifle to shoot them in. Now I reload that cartridge also! 7zero1 out. |
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Reloader: One who reloads so that they can shoot more often, more inexpensively, or more accurately. May enjoy the added hobby or may just reload out of necessity. Hard Core Reloader: One who shoots so that they can reload! Sir, I guess I'm not yet hard core! I do make it a point to keep a sufficient quantity of ammo on hand for each firearm I own. Like you I believe I now reload more than a dozen different cartridges with multiple firearms associated with each. Considering the actual number of guns, that's alot of ammo! 7zero1 out. |
| I think the popular distinction is 'Reloader' -vs- 'Handloader' . The hand loader being the tinkerer and mad scientist of the genre. Generally loads a number of different calibers, wildcats and match prepped loadings. Often shoots less than competitive shooters, but the knowledge base is likely much more broad in scope. Reloading is his whiskey/women/dope. :) |
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I think the popular distinction is 'Reloader' -vs- 'Handloader' . The hand loader being the tinkerer and mad scientist of the genre. Generally loads a number of different calibers, wildcats and match prepped loadings. Often shoots less than competitive shooters, but the knowledge base is likely much more broad in scope. Reloading is his whiskey/women/dope. :) I do feel like a dopehead when I`m tipping projectiles. 
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I love shooting, but I swear I'm obsessed with load workups.  Every range trip is a new experiment, new load workup, new something.
Most of the time, it feels like WORK, yet I keep doing it anyway.
-ZA this has been me the last year. i dont think ive taken 1 gun out and had "fun" shooting. its always been work-ups. and RIGHT when i thought i was done, i scored some 175gr SMK's. and got a supressor. time for reg and subsonic workups. 
by the above though, i would say i was a regular reloader. I had been saving brass for YEARS, then finally got a 550B. after i found a great load, i will make a few thousand rounds. well after i ran out of brass and had 10k+ ammo, i realized i had to actually SHOOT the stuff i reloaded It is funny though how some range trips end up in me just picking up peoples brass for a few hours (after i ask of course) and i dont really shoot any of the stuff i brought (specially when someone is shooting off a 308 like its a 9mm).
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I love shooting, but I swear I'm obsessed with load workups. Every range trip is a new experiment, new load workup, new something.
Most of the time, it feels like WORK, yet I keep doing it anyway.
-ZA This. Totally guilty. *orders strain gages for suppressor experiment* |
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Case prep is my only complaint about reloading (.223), love working up loads. That's funny. I like case prep. I used to dread load development, because I hated fiddling with my powder measure. I picked up a used Pact digital dispenser last year, and that made punching up loads easier. |
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That's funny. I like case prep. I used to dread load development, because I hated fiddling with my powder measure. I picked up a used Pact digital dispenser last year, and that made punching up loads easier. Quoted:
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Case prep is my only complaint about reloading (.223), love working up loads. That's funny. I like case prep. I used to dread load development, because I hated fiddling with my powder measure. I picked up a used Pact digital dispenser last year, and that made punching up loads easier. Same here. Once I got my RCBS Chargemaster it was no issue to come home and knock out an OCW ladder on a whim in no time. |
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I probably spend as much time reloading (if not more) than I do shooting anymore. Especially now that I'm working up reloads with steel cased 5.45 instead of just reforming .222 brass. You doing Mexi-match ammo with the steel or drilling out the Berdan primers with a jig to seat boxers? Would be interested to see what you come up with (in a separate thread of course) as I'm also going to eventually reload 5.45. I think Dryflash once mentioned how it was awesome to see folks who reload for a caliber that's a) 'not supposed to be reloaded' per some folks (ie: COMBLOC calibers) and b) more expensive than buying factory ammo, haha |
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I get the reloader vs handloader as I consider myself both; a reloader for when I make runs of 1-2K at a time but also a handloader for the smaller runs I take more time to be more consistent with. Anything I'm loading for long range use is definitely handloader made. |
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