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Poco Loco

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:39:12 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:54:56 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:38:40 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:03:54 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:32:13 -0500, wrote:

Sportsmans Guide seems to be getting ammo in (online). They even had
9mm for 27 cents a round in the last catalog.
I am still waiting for 20 cents before I dive back in the ammo pond.
The hoarders should be running out of room in the bunker and the
manufacturers will overshoot the market.

I bought three boxes of TulAmmo at WalMart for $10.36/50. Steel case, FMJ, made in Russia. We'll see
if I get any misfires.

I can't really remember the last time I had a misfire.I saw a few at
the skeet range but they were reloaded 12ga. I always shot new ammo.
We were buying it by the pallet at about $2 a box so reloading never
made economic sense to me.

I can't imagine that reloading 9mm would be much cheaper than 20 cents a round.

When I was shooting several times a week I reloaded .38 and .45ACP and
the .38 was about 2 cents a round. There was an IBM guy who cast
wadcutters from wheel weights he scrounged up and sold them for a
penny apiece. It was cheaper if you could barter some lead into the
deal.
I ended up scrounging lead too ;-)

For sure that's cheap.

Primers were less than a penny apiece in those days and a pound of
Bullseye was a virtual lifetime supply at 2.5 gr a shot. My DC cop
buddy kept me stocked with once fired .38 brass in exchange for
rolling up hot loads for him. We ended up with some scary fast stuff.
I had a 125gr round that came out at 1725 FPS on the DC chronograph.
It was really meant for a .357s but he shot them from his model 10
Smith service revolver.

I don't do enough shooting to get into the reload side of the house, and I expect it would cost a
bit more now anyway. Sounds like you had fun, though. Shame my two retired cop brothers aren't still
in the business!