9mm: buy vs reload?

Krony

Just curious your guys' thoughts on reloading 9mm as prices have come back down. Specifically range ammo, not any match type stuff.

When 9mm is $13/50 rounds it makes sense to me to reload. (And I always reload 38 & 357 mag.) I recently picked up 1000 rounds of Tula 9mm for $170 delivered...Also recently got some 9mm 124gr lead for $28/500. Thinking I'll save the Tula for my local indoor range that doesn't allow reloads.

Got me wondering what every one else thought...When do you buy vs reload?

yonson

Reload when experimentation with various loads produces one that the gun "likes" better than factory rounds: i.e., improved accuracy.

hillbille

if you put the reloads back in factory boxes, how would the range know they were reloads?????

navc130

Reloading to me was always a balance between cost, time, technical interest and personal satisfaction. Any one factor could predominate at some point in time. If I see a good buy on ammo to just shoot in the dirt or hunt with, I buy it.

Krony

quote:Originally posted by hillbille
if you put the reloads back in factory boxes, how would the range know they were reloads?????

Yep, I do that on 38 & 357. For the rare times I go to an indoor range I usually have some factory 9mm on hand.

noylj

I reload, thus I never buy factory.

bpost

The factory ammo I shoot is shotgun and 22LR. Almost everything else is reloaded. I do have milsurp 8mm and 7.62X54R that was purchased years ago dirt cheap that is my burner ammo for plinking. However, I still load both calibers for other shooting much of it with cast bullets.

Smitty500mag

I reload all of the stuff I shoot not to save money but because I just like reloading and that includes shotgun shells. It's also more convenient to be able to make what you need and not have to go shopping for it.

papernicker

If I stuck with factory my Ruger, most likely, wouldn't have cost the company money to ship plus some parts. I hope to figure why my cast bullets fail to fire...rarely.

lexusmgr

I reload all my ammo. I even learned to cast so my cost for 9mm with free wheel weights and Free range pick up brass is about $0.06/round. Of course, there is your time, but I'm retired and have plenty of time on my hands.

B17-P51

quote:Originally posted by papernicker
If I stuck with factory my Ruger, most likely, wouldn't have cost the company money to ship plus some parts. I hope to figure why my cast bullets fail to fire...rarely.

Don't want to hijack this thread but what Ruger do you have? I have a GP-100 in 44 Spl.with the same problem. Also have grossly off center primer strikes in 2 chambers.