6,000 55 gr. FMJ bullets take up about the same space as a big city phonebook. (Remember phonebooks?) What’s really trippy is that in many markets, the small rifle primers needed for these are worth more than the bullets themselves.
I’ve a Dillon RL1050, literal buckets of .223 brass and carbide .223 dies. Time to get busy.
Holy cow. 6,000 rounds. Guessing that could take all winter to roll that.
Nah, takes about six hours with the Dillon.
When the weather starts getting cold, sitting in the bunker room at my reloading bench brings me joy and comfort.
One way to know if someone shoots a lot is by how much brass they have on hand. When they measure it with 5 gal buckets, that’s a lot.
When they use an old concrete mixer to process brass, they are at the upper end of activity log.
Jerry Miculek shoots a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5y_dsP3dsM
My My thats a Purdy sight. Yum Yum! On the other hand I finally received (2 wks. ago) a set of dies I had ordered back in Jan 21. And they are made here in the USA. Primers & powder, fahgedaboudit! Even the mfgs. websites say out of stock. I can’t be the only one that can’t get stuff. But apparently Commander Zero is hitting home runs still.
Commander Zero has been stockpiling this stuff for thirty years. Also, Commander Zero is, somewhat, in the business.
I just loaded 1k rounds of .308 with old US military brass I had been saving. Had the opportunity back in the day to use a bunch of Argentinian military as well, and brought home a duffel bag of once fired. A big mistake! Between busting deprimer pins, swaging AND reaming pockets I can’t shoot for a while as my wrist, shoulder and biceps are wrecked. Argentinian stuff was almost welded around those primers! Oddly, I’m still smiling!!!
many years back I bought once fired .308 brass that had been fired through machine guns from a company whose name my pea brain can’t bring up at the moment.
an internet search might find it.
I send all my .308 brass to Beaver River Brass Processing, 410 Court Road, Beaver Falls, PA 15010
724-601-1383
6cts. a round sized, trimmed, swaged and slightly chamfered.
I have been very happy with the results.
My problem is still powder and primers. I have some primers but powder is nearly impossible to find around here. Two of the powders I formally used are no longer made. DuPont SR4756 went away when DuPont sold their powder business.
And since I was informed that the last maker of black powder in the US, Goex will be closing very soon. That could be an issue as well. The faux black powder cannot be used for some applications. Why Hodgen decided to close Goex hasn’t been fully explained.
I would imagine that its a tremendous expense to carry liability against explosions, and the specialized facilities necessary to mitigate risk don’t come cheap. Additionally, the demand cant be much more than a small fraction of overall powder demand so, fiscally, it probably makes less sense to manufacture it and more sense to import it.
They sure weigh more than a phone book!
Projectiles get heavy quick.
The best price I’ve seen recently on primers is $90/1k; I should have grabbed them when I saw it – later that day I saw the same ones for $135 at what claimed to be a Discount store…
Was in glendive mt earlier this week and was totally surprised to see small rifle primers at a little gun store on main street. Step over to see how much per 100 sleeve $14.95. Carefully set down the precious metal and continued shopping.
Powder and primers were available at Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot but prices were high and selling fast. Midway has primed pull down 7.62×51 LC brass at near reasonable price,will be processing and loading some soon.
After 50 years it was the very last Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot
Hi C.Z. Those look like something Everglades Ammo out of Florida has for sale. Take care AL
What is your lad? I use win 748 with the amount specified in the Lee book with CCI SR military primers. Makes a really good and accurate load for me. Right at 1 inch at 100 yards. Your mileage may vary I use a Dillon 650, so not as fast, but still not too bad