[fella]

A nice idea for a small business.

[WayneS]

Do the sheep ever knock over his reloading supplies?

[lgjhn23]

I know many folks that reload..and reload a lot. But there are only a couple of em that I would trust their finished products in my gun. IMHO, there’s just too much liability in it to do as a business. One accidental double-charge that causes someone grevious injury and it’s lawsuit city.

[Lurker]

For later.

L

[smokingfrog]

He could probably make some pretty good money manufacturing hard to find calibers.

[smokingfrog]

He could probably make some pretty good money manufacturing hard to find calibers.

[jim_trent]

I have been reloading since the mid-1960’s. I reload for everything I shoot. Also cast the bullets for many of them. I form cases for a few of them. Cost per shot ranges from about 15 cents to about 50 cents each.

I have been asked many times to sell some (especially after Sandy Hook), but I have ALWAYS turned them down. I don’t need the liability.

I knew a guy many years ago (Pre Dillon progressive presses) who had a Class 4 license. He and a few other Class 4 licensees got together, bought a farm to shoot on and a Hollywood progressive press to supply their guns. They owned a number of legal machine guns between them. He said that they could afford to buy a farm, machine guns, and a progressive press, but they could NOT afford to feed their guns with store bought ammunition.

I asked him if he could reload 600 of them per hour like the sales literature said. He said that it could be done, but there had to be one guy pulling the handle, one guy loading the primers in the tube, and one guy loading cases into their tube in order to make that happen. Otherwise, the loading was much slower because you had to stop every 10-15 minutes to supply (refill) the machine. Most of the time they had a get-together (a reloading party) to reload their ammunition. Everybody worked. From memory, they only loaded for 9mm and 45ACP.

[scripter]

We're still in California where purchasing ammunition is becoming more difficult and now we can't purchase ammunition out of state without a middle man. My dad had a reloader that is now mine but I don't know anything about reloading. I'll probably have to learn.

Here are the new California guns laws for 2018:

New gun restrictions are coming to California in 2018. Here’s what they mean to you

That should open in a new window.

[husky ed]

Dillon Press. I use a 550B.

Ed

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[Mariner]

I have a Dillon 650. It cranks it out.

But I’d hate to have to make a living that way.

With that machine you could probably make 500 rifle rounds per day...with a +/- 1.5 grain variance in the load. But it would be a full, 10 hour day.

Fine for everything but precision shooting. For that you must construct each round individually.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Takes several thousand dollars to get started plus license plus insurance plus every weekend will be filled and no time off.