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Good .380 ammo seems to be hard to find locally. YMMV.
Great sale on .380 at freedommunitions right now. I don't own a .380, but a friend does and said that it's the best price he's seen in a while.Good .380 ammo seems to be hard to find locally. YMMV.
I don't own one either.Great sale on .380 at freedommunitions right now. I don't own a .380, but a friend does and said that it's the best price he's seen in a while.
Gator target in background of first picture is classic.
Competition is a good thing. Sorry to hear of CT affecting your ability to do so.
On a first come first save basis, I managed to find 2-pounds of Alliant Unique pistol powder this past weekend. My wife and I went to Nashville, TN and when we do, I always stop at The Reloaders Bench in Mt. Juliet. As luck would have it, they had just finished stocking a case of the Unique, with a limit was 2-pounds per customer... so I grabbed a couple... Finally a reason to get started on 9mm and 38 Special re-loading. I de-capped; re-sized and tumbled roughly 1000 9mm and 300 38 Special. I have another 600 38 left to do.
Although tedious, I love case prep work... for therapautic in my opion.
On a first come first save basis, I managed to find 2-pounds of Alliant Unique pistol powder this past weekend. My wife and I went to Nashville, TN and when we do, I always stop at The Reloaders Bench in Mt. Juliet. As luck would have it, they had just finished stocking a case of the Unique, with a limit was 2-pounds per customer... so I grabbed a couple... Finally a reason to get started on 9mm and 38 Special re-loading. I de-capped; re-sized and tumbled roughly 1000 9mm and 300 38 Special. I have another 600 38 left to do.
Although tedious, I love case prep work... for therapautic in my opion.
I used Unique in my .357 for around 400 rounds, not a bad powder. Vast majority was Hercules 2400 at Magnum loads. At 18-20 grains per load a pound can lasts a long time
Last/first of year I finished loading several hundred .38Spl. Loaded a variety of loads; 140gr wadcutters, 124 and 140gr Ranier plated bullets. I use a single stage press, so, like you say, case prep is everything (and therapeutic). I use Unique, but I prefer Green Dot. It's lower density than Unique, and less smokey. Seems to work great in .38/.357 and .45 Colt Cowboy Action loads.
I'v used Unique a lot for hand gun loads, it is smokey but a good powder to use. Bullseye is another powder I use and like it as well.
On a first come first save basis, I managed to find 2-pounds of Alliant Unique pistol powder this past weekend. My wife and I went to Nashville, TN and when we do, I always stop at The Reloaders Bench in Mt. Juliet. As luck would have it, they had just finished stocking a case of the Unique, with a limit was 2-pounds per customer... so I grabbed a couple... Finally a reason to get started on 9mm and 38 Special re-loading. I de-capped; re-sized and tumbled roughly 1000 9mm and 300 38 Special. I have another 600 38 left to do.
Although tedious, I love case prep work... for therapautic in my opion.
I did not know anything about the powder, other than what I gleemed out of my three reference manuals. I made a list on note cards for powders to look out for, and the store I purchased from made it easy for me... all they had was Unique.
I'm a gun enthusiast myself. I'm also a re-loader. Problem is, I had to hang it up about 10 years ago when I met my wife (family life took over). I still shoot occasionally, but lately only my .44mag.
I've been itching to get back into it, but the cost of reloading supplies is ridiculous now. I have boxes of bullets (500 per box) that cost me $22. Today, that box is like $80. Like WHAAAAT???!!!!! Not to mention the extra cost of powder, primers.
I just can't afford to shoot anymore. I used to keep 1200+ of each caliber, ain't got much of each anymore.
I'm a gun enthusiast myself. I'm also a re-loader. Problem is, I had to hang it up about 10 years ago when I met my wife (family life took over). I still shoot occasionally, but lately only my .44mag.
I've been itching to get back into it, but the cost of reloading supplies is ridiculous now. I have boxes of bullets (500 per box) that cost me $22. Today, that box is like $80. Like WHAAAAT???!!!!! Not to mention the extra cost of powder, primers.
I just can't afford to shoot anymore. I used to keep 1200+ of each caliber, ain't got much of each anymore.
Yeah, if you can find powder. A few years ago, it was primers, now it's powder.
Fortunately, what I shoot the most of is black powder cartridge in SASS, and BP is still pretty available.
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