The Most Arrogant And Condescending Post Denouncing Reloading I Have Ever Read.

[RanchRoper]

Supposed to rain & snow this weekend, guess I'll waste a bunch of time and money...

[RanchRoper]

Haters be haters.

He's just jealous that I have all the 45 Colt ammo....

[BruniX]

reloading is hobby , and it is also an acquisition of knowledge, not an expense of time.

 

[Mistered]

Yea - the OP of the post got laid away pretty quickly and didn't respond further.

[220]

I actually agree with a lot of it.
Even without factoring in time costs reloading for the more common calibres wont save you much if any money.
Good savings to be had reloading less popular rounds and plenty of reasons to load other than cost but dont kid yourself you are doing it to save money. Even if you are saving some money chances are you will end up shooting more and still spending the same.

[Mags]

I don't reload. I don't trust myself to sit still long enough to make it worth while, including basking in enjoying it. Too many things distracting my attention span. Easier for me mentally to just go buy the ammo.

[dddrees]

I don't reload. I don't trust myself to sit still long enough to make it worth while, including basking in enjoying it. Too many things distracting my attention span. Easier for me mentally to just go buy the ammo.

^This

[MJ151]

I put 200-300 45 colt loads down range almost every week. My loads cost $.17 per round not counting brass and I get 20+ reloads per stick. Factory 45 colt runs in my area about $.75- $1 per round. So I could spend $300 every week or $51. It take me less than an hour to turn out 300 round on my Dillon 550. Even factoring in the Dillon, it doesn't take long to pay that off several times over. But in all honesty, there is no way I could afford $300 a week in ammo. So not only do I shoot more by reloading I do it for a lot less. I run Unique because it's economical, I buy bulk bullets from Bayou Bullets and primes by the case. All of this drives down the cost per round. I use to do it all on a single stage and that took all week to make up the three hundred rounds, hence the Dillon. My time was worth that purchase alone.

[ChefDuane]

I don't reload and don't begrudge those that do. If you like to do it, do it. It kinda' reminds me of when we built our house some years ago. We also built an in-ground pool and spa. Folks kept telling us that "you'll never get your money out of a pool" and "some people won't buy a house with a pool." Ok, fine. But I LIKE TO SWIM IN THE POOL AND GET IN THE SPA. You don't put in a pool to get your money out of it. You put in a pool because you LIKE TO GET IN A POOL!!

Just my observation but ... re-loaders typically don't reload because they are thinking about selling their re-loads. They are usually not doing intricate economic calculations about how many 9MM's do I need to produce offset by my capital outlay and factoring in my projected labor costs and taking into account any 'bad' loads I get to break even on today's Cabela's prices on 9MM ammo.

Sheesh! Re-loaders reload because they LIKE TO. That's fine enough for me.

[GunnyGene]

Before cartridges were invented everyone was a reloader.