matt6669

I'm not going to need lead heads for a while, but Rick you gotta get in on that day. It knocks at the minimum 15/1k off the price of your heads. That right there is two cents roughly a bullet. That adds up quickly times 50. And I suggest trying out the wolf primers, that'll save you another almost 1 cent per bullet. So those two things your looking at almost knocking 1.50 off your reloads alone.

The reviews on Midway from what I saw seemed very positive. If nothing else it's only 50 dollars and you know the next step is a case prep center.

oh and buy in bulk. When we order primers, we don't order less than 30k primers at a time. When we order bullets we order I believe 12k or more from Dardas in order to get the 15% off discount

I don't believe in paying for brass so yes free brass. Wolf primers, I've gotten them as low at 17 per/k Dardas 200gr. SWC lead projectiles Don't quote me I have it written down somewhere but I believe I paid in the 75 dollar range per 1k And I use winchester 231 and buy it in 8lb jugs at 120 for the 8lb jug. I believe that puts me at like 5.20something or another If you use CCI primers your price is going to be COMPLETELY different. I've shot thousands of rounds with my wolf primers and Tim has shot beyond thousands of primers with no hiccups. Just this last time I went to reload some large rifle and the little radiation symbol on the inside fell out of two of my primers. That is the only problem I've ever had. The price different is more than enough to convince me to continue using them.

oh come on Rick, you can do better than that! I think I got my .45's down to 5.25 for 50 with 200 gr lead heads FTW

For the most part you can never go wrong with anything that has RCBS on the side of it. Now with that being said, I would urge you to either now or at some point in the near future also purchase some form of non-electrical scale. Whether it be balance beams or something else. One day your going to want to go reload and your battery is going to be dead and your going to be pissed. Good choice on the thumblers, I love mine!!

RCBS Case Prep timmay. I'm telling you 99 bucks from cabelas 5 dollar shipping it's the way to go dude. After I used Erics Lyman I said there is no way I'm prepping cases by hand anymore. On the other side of things, RCBS does sell a new cutting head for the trim prop which supposedly gets both the outside and inside edge while it trims the cases which supposedly means you no longer need to deburr the case mouth like you normally would which would pretty much cut out the prep center IMO. Another option is the powered trim pro, it's a 200 dollar add on but would speed up the process some. Another option that I know Eric has been using is the lee trim thingy. I don't know what it's called but they are specifically made per caliber, you can put the one end in a drill and supposedly they work really quick. Eric loves his. Only downside is, it only cuts one length, so if you have a gun that you measured the chamber, this wouldn't be a good tool for that. If I think of anything else I'll let you know M

shotguns and pistols are completely different. Liberals treat pistols as satan and rifles and shotguns as satan's step child. Reason being is anti's know they can't get their hands on shotguns and rifles because of the hunting community. Thus leaving all their efforts to attack pistols. Not to get off tract but look at NJ. Pistols have insane laws, must be in the trunk, can only take from home to range etc. I can take my rifle, put it in the back of my car during hunting season and go joy riding around the state of NJ and anywhere else and never be breaking the law.

That wasn't Glenn

mmmm love that grey area. Gun-related event. Which they list shooting competition, bonafide gunshow, or hunting exercise. To me I see now mention of a shooting range and I wouldn't consider target practice at a shooting range a gun-related event. But that's the wonderful gray area of the law so you take your own chances. Personally I can shoot at home, I don't need to bring my guns to an anti-gun state and take chances. I like staying outside of the bars.

Their guest policy is designed to make people become members instead of being guested in all the time. If your bringing a guest once a year it's not so bad. If you have a g/f who likes to go a few times a year it sucks because it's almost worth buying the membership but not really. I agree I hate the policy but you'll never see it changed I can guarantee it. If anything the guest fee price will only go up.

FYI in most cases the .380 is going to kick more than the 9mm. She will be better off starting with the .22 and growing into the 9mm. I don't recommend .380 for pretty much anyone. I've found that factory .45 loads kick less than a .380 due to the .45 frame being heavier and bigger to soak up the recoil. Now might be a good time to get into reloading and get her setup with a .45 and what I call powder puff loads. You can load up .45 with trailboss and it's like shooting a .22

If memory serves me correctly Maryland is a state just like NY where you can not bring a pistol into the state unless it's for a sanctioned event ex. and NRA shooting competition etc. in which you would then need to show proof that you are entered in the event. Might want to check MD laws but I remember when I had a friend who lived down there I could of sworn I looked into it and it's a no go.

i've only heard fantastic things about it. But it's no where near you. It's all the way out by rockaway I believe.

ahhh makes sense. Yeah it really makes you consider not joining that's for sure.

I bought it knowing I was going to put money into it. When I'm done I can easily turn around and sell it for over a grand profit. But I'm not planning on doing that.

Cost, Space, and they absolutely refuse to do anything at that place that will even cause a ripple in their day to day activities. They are afraid if they let the town on their property they are going to get shut down. Among many other things

its only 135 for a renewal but I still hear you. But they will NEVER I repeat NEVER EVER NOT A POSSIBILITY EVER are going to have an indoor range at CR. So if that's your criteria, I would start looking at Shongum or elsewhere. M

It will never be his only job. He's not that stupid. He's got the board wrapped around his finger and the money's a coming in.

To tell you the truth I agreed with 3/4's of his post. And your typical response is half the reason I want nothing to do with your joke of an association. The other half has to do with actually knowing what goes on behind those closed doors and what a complete and udder disaster the foundation is. I'll keep my money and put it towards a nest egg to get out of this state. I have a better chance of leaving this state than expecting the NJ2AS to make the laws better in NJ.

just a little food for thought. Wayne Lapierre who handles all of the NRA including it's bazillion members and every state makes about 970k salary plus compensations puts him over 1 million dollars for a single year. Scott Bach who supposedly handles maybe 4k members and one state makes 150k Seems a little lopsided to me. Seems we should be paying Bach about 50k a year But damn, a million bucks for Lapierre that's INSANE!

oneshot your expecting wayyyyyyyyy to much of ANJRPC. You would expect them to not be like our government when in fact they are EXACTLY like our government. Through the grapevine I've heard that ANJRPC holds several bank accounts and as of about a year ago just one of those bank accounts held over 600k. So we got all this money in the bank and we arn't doing **** with it. We arn't making the range any better to draw more people to the range. We have very little lawsuits going on right now and none of which IMO that ANJRPC is spearheading. The CCW one they literally jumped on the back of the second amendment foundation and then said they did all the work. It's a complete joke which I keep saying yet no one listens lol Also Dan I think your numbers are slightly off. Cherry Ridge hasn't been having that sort of turn out for 10 years. They only saw the start of that turn out about a year before Obama's election. So your only looking at about 5 years of this serious growth. Whereas your membership numbers are off, your gross income numbers probably arn't too far off since we get donations, contributions from the NRA (supposedly) among other things. You can't see the accounting because even ANJRPC doesn't even know what they have. And like Dan said, it would of taken 2 college aged interns a few weeks to sort through the membership problem. Yet we are paying an outside firm to take care of it. You could of offered a free 2 year membership to two people to input the information and I know I probably would of done it in a heartbeat. But that would require ANJRPC to be proactive and they are anything but. Blegh the foundation makes me sick

Well tonight I was able to source a lot of the rigging that I'm going to need along with a new centerboard that's already been cleaned up and painted all for 225 bucks. So that helped out a heck of a lot. I think I finally decided on the paints and this crap is going to blow my budget. For the bottom side I think I'm going to go with Interlux VC Performance Epoxy which is a 2 part. For the top side I'm going to prime with Interlux Epoxy Primekote and then follow that with the 2 part Interlux Perfection. All of this plus some thinners and solvents brings me to a total of 363 dollars OUCH! I really hope that both the 2 gallon kit of VC Performance and the 1 gallon of Perfection will be enough for the amount of coats that I need to do

let me just remind you something, when you mess up in reloading chances are your face or hands get messed up. My advice to you is find someone you live by and pick their brains as much as you can before reloading so you don't end up a statistic

One other thing, what gun do you plan on using the rifle rounds in? I see you mentioned 5.56 so I'm going to assume that means an AR-15 so make sure you get all full length sizing dies.