“A few years a go my cousin bought a new rifle to hunt Elk, I have no idea what caliber it was, when he went to zero the scope, no ammo available anywhere in the area. after several phone calls he found two boxes 600 miles away, not enough time to have it shipped, fortunately that was only about 100 miles from where he was going to hunt. He didn’t tell me about it, my friend who he went hunting with told me.”
This is why learning to reload is a good idea. Even a simple single stage set-up would prevent this sort of situation.
I agree, reloading is a good plan, if the only ammo available is 600 miles away, brass is going to be hard to come up with.