Tundra Tiger
AH legend
"My starter wife"
Did you get fair trade-in value?
Did you get fair trade-in value?
"My starter wife"
Did you get fair trade-in value?
May I say that I hate you but in a nice way! Just kidding as I am very envious of you for having a home range that reaches out to 600 yards. It is something that I can only dream of having. Congratulations on however you did it.
The daughter should be practised enough by then … to pick up on all your bad habits and start coaching you!We drive 35 miles once a week to a school range and about 50 miles once a week to a club range… my daughter averages about 250 shot shells a week on trap/skeet/sporting clays… but I haven’t shot a clay pigeon in months lol…
I’m definitely planning on putting a couple of machines in bunkers less than 100 yards from my back porch once we build our forever home in a few years… I miss clay busting (even though I see a lot of it every week lol)…
That's sad. You should get started if that's all you can do is just start, by picking up the equipment and accessories. Hopefully when or as supplies of reloading components hit the shelves at reasonable prices you'll be able to actually reload to keep a steady supply of ammo on hand and can shoot more often.Post COVID, I’m definitely shooting less. Time is an issue, but ammo price and availability is too. I laughed at my brother in law 10 years ago for paying $100 dollars a box for weatherby ammo.
A lot of ammo is $70 to $90 a box here in Canada for quality stuff these days. Absolutely bananas. As a result, I am working on downsizing my (small) collection. Going to focus on fewer cartridges and have ammo available in the cartridges I actually use.
Was thinking about reloading, but the time commitment, expense and unavailability of components the last few years made me change my mind.
Beautiful pup!LOL, you may! I always wanted to retire to property I could shoot and hunt on. I worked hard to make it happen. I have actually laid out the spot for an 800 yard target now. Unfortunately, I think that will be the limit.
These pictures were taken on our farm on the same day this season:
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Wish I could tap: like, laugh, or wow, but I just could refuse a 5 gun steal of a deal.....well at one time maybe. The calibers were already hard to get on 3 of them, 1 the ammo was always high, and the 5th was a no brainer since I already own and reload that caliber.Get the gear for what you have. It is a pain to be waiting months for essential components so that you can shoot a newly purchased rifle. Never again for me!
My starter wife (long since replaced) used to get pissed when I'd come home with yet another brick of .22LR.. at one point I think I had close to 40K rounds of it... but at the time it was selling for about $0.021 a round.. you could get a box pretty easily for about $1.09... and a brick of 500 was typically $9.99..
Today a really good price for really crappy .22LR is about $0.03 per round and anything of "average" quality like rem thunderbolts or win white box is going to run you $0.04 - $0.05 per round minimum... and it wasnt all that long ago that finding average .22LR was running about $0.08 per round..
Its been at least 15 years since Ive bought any 22 LR... and I've still got enough of a stockpile that Im pretty sure I'll still have plenty on the shelf long after I pass from this earth..
Theres something to be said for buying cheap and stocking deep...
"My starter wife"
Did you get fair trade-in value?
I'm still at the range once a week fussing over this or that load and I'm carrying a loaded rifle on my daily strolls in the hills. Spring is breaking out in my neck of the woods and the critter's have started moving.
What I've stopped doing is loading several hundred rounds at a time in various cartridges and then drawing from that pile all season. Now I load just what I need for a couple of days in advance. Sort of 'on demand loading'.
SGT Zim: I think you have a valid concern - Ammo prices have doubled in the past 5-7 years and doubt they are ever going down — from .22lr to competition shotgun shells. Components (especially powder, lead, primers) also increased a lot and make reloading some items (12ga shells) barely worth the effort due to increased price of lead & powder. The only way to save significantly reloading 12ga is drop less lead (7/8 oz) but at least reloading sub gauges still result in savings…..My Son reloads for me and that allows me to shoot more —— still not as much as I’d like if ammo was “free”.What's everybody's pulse like on shooting since the 'rona?
I shoot a great deal less today than I did 4 years ago. Components have certainly gotten more expensive, but that isn't it for me.
I have a lot of powder, I'd surmise in the neighborhood of 35-40#.
I have probably 2K+/- LR primers
I have heaven-only-knows how many bullets and brass for all my rifles.
What I lack is the confidence that I can replace any of that if I start to run low. So I don't shoot nearly as much as I would like.
Gina, don’t wait too long for “all this overwhelming chaos” to be over - it seems to have settled into the New Normal. Prices will never return to those of a decade ago and availability is also unlikely to return to prior levels. The new and more restrictive “laws” many States are passing and shipping restrictions by carriers like UPS - all add to cost increases and less availability. I like to shoot Sporting Clays & Skeet, have been reluctant to purchase a new mid priced O/U ($5000) because of the cost and I already own several O/Us that are fine for the task. Then, I figured out that the price of the New gun is “Less then the cost of Ammo” I will put thru it in the first two years…hit me like a brick - Duh !!Time is my main issue. I spend more time looking through a windshield these days than I care to.
I agree with you in that there is a replacement concern. Aside from shooting some nuisance critters I don’t get to shoot. I miss it, however I want to get all this overwhelming chaos over and done with so we can get back to regular chaos.
Gina, don’t wait too long for “all this overwhelming chaos” to be over - it seems to have settled into the New Normal. Prices will never return to those of a decade ago and availability is also unlikely to return to prior levels.