My biggest problem with 10mm

sqlbullet · March 22 2013 10:43:18 AM MDT

Quote from: gandog56 on March 18 2013 05:32:01 PM MDT
Last time I ran a reloading calculator on my 10mm, 185 grain reloads I came up with $12.68 per box of fifty. No I could go a lot cheaper and use cast, not my Precision Bullets brand projectiles.

Yeah...That is downright expensive! ${$default_tongue_smiley}$

With bullets cast from essentially free lead, I come in at $3.50 per box of 50. And if you count the revenue I get from selling ingots I make from my excess lead, I get paid to reload and shoot. ${$default_grin_smiley}$

gandog56 · March 23 2013 02:07:37 PM MDT

I just don't have the time, desire, or the room to cast my own.

DM1906 · March 23 2013 07:33:56 PM MDT

Me neither, but I do.

cwlongshot · March 24 2013 09:24:43 AM MDT

Quote from: gandog56 on March 23 2013 02:07:37 PM MDT
I just don't have the time, desire, or the room to cast my own.

This is the time of year I cast the most! Its getting warmer, so light jacket or heavy sweat shirt, sitting in the open garage with back door to garage open. I cast a number of calibers, duck decoy weights and fishing sinkers. Then use them as the season allows/progresses. I size/lube later when I get a chance.

Usually I grab a hunting/fishing buddy to cast one while I cast another passing the time talking over a beer or two.

One MAKES time for the important things or things he needs. Not all of us have the same priorities, I file this under deserved self/ personal time.

CW

pacapcop · March 24 2013 10:35:28 AM MDT

Time to dust of the reels,lube em up and go after the Stripe Bass once water temps get a little warmer.Surf fishin with dedicated surf mates without vactioner nit wits.Then we revisit it in the fall.Flask nearby ${$default_cool_smiley}$

cwlongshot · March 24 2013 07:58:37 PM MDT

Quote from: pacapcop on March 24 2013 10:35:28 AM MDT
Time to dust of the reels, lube em up and go after the Stripe Bass once water temps get a little warmer. Surf fishin with dedicated surf mates without vactioner nit wits. Then we revisit it in the fall. Flask nearby ${$default_cool_smiley}$

I'm usually out to a river or two by now... Been colder this year. Our boat is too big and two guys I go with who have smaller boats. But one is out of the country with work and another has the boat in the ''shop''...

But your right, pretty soon... pretty soon.. tite lines brother.

CW

claimbuster · April 13 2013 12:36:42 AM MDT

I quit casting my own many years ago. Just don't like doing it. So I buy mine. None of the cast bullets I shoot in my 40 S&W work well in my 10. I bought some 170gr. bullets from Montana Bullet Works and they have worked well.

Around the first of the year my jacketed 40 cal bullet inventory was BAD! Just out of pure luck i was surfing the sites one evening and Midsouth had a few 1900 count boxes of 180gr. Hornady HAP's in stock. So I snagged one. That has made my 10mm reloading a lot easier.

transman · April 15 2013 05:48:40 PM MDT

I guess I'm lucky to be living just down the road from Georgia Arms,(graduated high school with the owners).Even when their web site says they're out of stock,if ya drop in on them,they usually have some.Their 180 and 155gr.stuff still hovers around .41ct a round.Generally I can find whatever I'm looking for except 22lr.

REDLINE · April 15 2013 06:09:42 PM MDT

Very good to know about Georgia Arms. Thanks for the heads up.

sqlbullet · April 15 2013 08:14:38 PM MDT

BVAC used to be the Georgia Arms of the west. At all the gun shows. Usually had a little something stacked away. If you wanted a big order (1000 rounds or more) order and pay online for pick-up at the next gun show nearby with no shipping.

They now only sell via big outlets.

Georgia Arms is OK stuff. Good components. I got my start of brass from an order of 1000 rounds from them.