Clearly it has been a while since I loaded a large batch of .357 Mag.
9 thoughts on “Sign of the times”
How old is that picture? I had to look at the label three times to make sure that I read it correctly.
The picture was taken this afternoon when I was cranking out a couple thousand rounds of .357 outta my big Dillon. The question you meant to ask was when are those priemrs from.
You are correct. I was not sufficiently specific. So when did you buy them for such a wonderful price?
Oh, probably back in the 90’s at some point. I get a lot of estates that have reloading gear and components. I used to have tens of thousands of old Alcan primers from the 70’s that I picked up that way. My experience has been that as long as primers are stored well, they last pretty much indefinitely.
Ah the good old days. I remember when I first started shooting cartridge pistols. Started off with black powder cap and ball.
38spl ammo was 2.85 per box. After filling up about five great big coffee cans with once fired brass I started reloading. I got the price down to $2 a box of 50. Primers were cheap. So bought 5000 st a time. Powder was 3.75 a pound. And bullets were cheaper by the case of 5000. 158gr semi wadcutters from Mount Baldy.
Course I was shooting 50 to a 100 rounds a day. Everyday. As my stock of once fired grew some were loaded to +P 125 gr jacketed hollow points for self defence rounds.
You could do a lot of shooting then. But it paid off in the end. I was able to hit whatever I shot at. At ranges out to 100 yards. My pistol was a S&W Model 15 Combat Masterpiece. Still have it. It wears new Houge Grips. Other then that it’s the small pistol except for a trigger job.
Isn’t that why we stock up
Exactly, and even more so for when things aren’t available at any price.
This is when you wish you could take “current” you and go back in time to “past” you and buy “past” you a beer and thank him for the foresight, and for sticking to the plan.
How old is that picture? I had to look at the label three times to make sure that I read it correctly.
The picture was taken this afternoon when I was cranking out a couple thousand rounds of .357 outta my big Dillon. The question you meant to ask was when are those priemrs from.
You are correct. I was not sufficiently specific. So when did you buy them for such a wonderful price?
Oh, probably back in the 90’s at some point. I get a lot of estates that have reloading gear and components. I used to have tens of thousands of old Alcan primers from the 70’s that I picked up that way. My experience has been that as long as primers are stored well, they last pretty much indefinitely.
Ah the good old days. I remember when I first started shooting cartridge pistols. Started off with black powder cap and ball.
38spl ammo was 2.85 per box. After filling up about five great big coffee cans with once fired brass I started reloading. I got the price down to $2 a box of 50. Primers were cheap. So bought 5000 st a time. Powder was 3.75 a pound. And bullets were cheaper by the case of 5000. 158gr semi wadcutters from Mount Baldy.
Course I was shooting 50 to a 100 rounds a day. Everyday. As my stock of once fired grew some were loaded to +P 125 gr jacketed hollow points for self defence rounds.
You could do a lot of shooting then. But it paid off in the end. I was able to hit whatever I shot at. At ranges out to 100 yards. My pistol was a S&W Model 15 Combat Masterpiece. Still have it. It wears new Houge Grips. Other then that it’s the small pistol except for a trigger job.
Isn’t that why we stock up
Exactly, and even more so for when things aren’t available at any price.
This is when you wish you could take “current” you and go back in time to “past” you and buy “past” you a beer and thank him for the foresight, and for sticking to the plan.
If I have time to reload, it goes into building precision rifle ammo. Out here on a remote Montana mountain, I believe our best defense will be long range rifle. Some still do not know about ammoseek.com. Recently picked up some 9mm training ammo from here for only 22.7 cent/rd: https://1stroundammo.com/product/9mm/?attribute_new-remanufactured=Remanufactured&attribute_grain=115&attribute_projectile=FMJ&attribute_round-quantity=500&attribute_caliber=9mm