Florida B.S. Thread

Do you reload? If not, I would recommend it. It's the only way to feed that thing without going bankrupt. Nice looking rifle!

 

Happy July 4th

 

Not yet, but it looks like that's in my future! Cheap commercial ammo is 50 cents a round. You can reload for less than half of that and if you cast your own bullets it gets really cheap.

 

I tried loading with some coated cast bullets but they ended up leading my can some. So I swapped to nosler 190g custom competition. You can get them cheap when they do overrun sales. With those I can load good accurate subsonic for about .27 cents per round.

 

Looks like the general consensus is buy a single stage press to learn on. Then go progressive for volume and keep the single stage for accuracy loads.

What route did you take?

 

Everyone always said that was the way to go. But I went straight to a progressive. If you think about it, you can just run one round through at a time and it's essentially a single stage. Maybe one day I will get a single stage to mess with.

 

Did you go Dillon, Hornady, Lee or RCBS?

 

Ready for today

 

I'm going to get the smaller one.

 

Watch rolling it up. My hands were on fire rolling it up. Wear some gloves I had it up for 15 minutes and it was crazy hot

 

I have a lee loadmaster. It's a bit finicky but once you get it dialed in it works pretty good. If I was to do it again I would probably just spend the money and go Dillon. I guess it depends on how many rounds you shoot a year. If you are shooting 1000 rounds a year, the loadmaster should work fine. If you are getting up to 4 or 5000 rounds a year just get the Dillon.

 

Late notice, but I'm heading up to the Hernando Sportsman club tomorrow. We'll be there around 11.

 

I would but I'll be working. M-F is work available on the weekends

 

Anyone going to the Metallica show tonight?

 

Brian is @Trident904

 

Igue

I will see Brian at the show then... Driving thru the beautiful Fl Keys right now.

 

Local shop just quoted me $425/axle for gear install. Best price around.

 

Did you check ecgs? You don't have to worry about a shitty job with them. Is your local shop good with Toyotas?

 

ECGS doesn't have 3rds for the 2016-2017s yet. I check with them weekly. These guys at the place that quoted me build trucks and they have been around for 30 years. They came highly recommended from a friend of mine who uses them for his race car's transmission and axle work.

 

I went. God damn good show, maybe the best I've ever seen. Didn't really care for Avenged Sevenfold or whatever the other opening band was, but Metallica still got it.