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To: EyeGuy

Some people reload.


19 posted on 04/20/2012 6:57:48 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: dangerdoc; EyeGuy
Some people reload.

That is irrelevant to this discussion. You can only reload if you can get the components. We're talking about the difficulty in manufacturing the components themselves. Could your average reloader produce primers, smokeless powder, cases, etc. economically from non-regulated materials?

20 posted on 04/20/2012 7:05:37 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: dangerdoc

“Some people reload.”

That’s like saying art is easy because you can buy puzzles. Assembling the pieces is trivial; stamping & shaping shells is hard, making primers is hazardous, swaging projectiles (stuffing lead wire into copper tubes and squeezing to shape) isn’t hard but making them accurate & high-performance is, mixing propellant powders is an art, and that’s all assuming you can get the right metals & other specialty materials in forms you can work with.

We’re not talking black powder & lead balls here. “Reloading” amounts to final assembly; yeah it’s cheaper, but when SHTF you’ll wish it were all assembled already and not have time/resources to make more.


52 posted on 04/24/2012 11:41:50 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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