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At the moment I can't, I can reload for about .25 cents a round due to all the brass I have.    Some of the bulk ammo out there runs around .35 cents a round, http://ammunitionstore.com/products/223-5-56x45-ammo-55gr-fmj-federal-american-eagle-ae223bl-500-round-case.html (may be cheaper out there)   Brass I have seen between .06 to .08 cents a case in lots of 500 or so, so if you don't have brass you can come close but with shipping and or taxes you may be better off one way or another.   I use a reloading calculator on my phone (one online) to make a baseline of the costs associated with the calibers I reload for, that way I can make a quick decision (because they sell fast) on if it is worth the sales price to me.

Me, I reload when I can't buy the ammo cheaper than I can purchase it.  Sometimes I take into account the reusable brass into the equation such as when I picked up my .44 Mag.  I purchased some plinking rounds to familiarize myself with the gun, then reloaded the spent cases.  For .223/5.56 I have a bunch of brass, so its a straight one for one thing, which ATM I can buy cheaper FMJ than I can reload it, but I can reload premium hunting rounds cheaper.

There are a few handguns with replaceable back straps just for this situation.  Again, you have to think of things like this beforehand but so far even the smallest of hands have been able to manage the M9 decently.  My hands are not the biggest out there but I can manage even the larger frames ok, not what I would personally purchase but I can manage any firearm out there given enough familiarity with it.

  Nothing to be sorry about, it is a reasonable assumption to think LEOs do that sort of thing.   Having options is overrated, when I joined the military the M16 would not of been my first choice, but guess what I got used to it and managed to master it's potential. When I went to Sapper School, we all had to place everything in the same place, hung on the same side, located in the same pocket etc. The reasoning is that in a stressful situation, no matter whose pack you get to first, you know where the extra ammo, extra bandages etc are. As long as a good quality handgun, riffle etc is selected, anyone can get used to it. After 9/11 many departments synchronized their communication equipment and frequencies due to the issues they had during the response. So far LEOs around here have not run up against this type of situation, and hopefully never will; but it doesn't hurt to be forward looking when it comes to equipment and training. Many have recently started questioning the acquisition of military overstock, seeing a possibility of using it against the populace; especially after Furgeson. But I personally see nothing wrong with it, a department should be equipped to handle these violent protests and mass shooting situations.

Don't sand or polish, it's a carbide so it would be difficult in the first place. Just make sure it doesn't have debris or imperfections in it. The expander also needs to be checked for smoothness, but I doubt raising the die will make a difference. If any of those components seem to have imperfections, send them back to Lee.

I clean before I resize most times, I also swage the primer pocket because I get mostly NATO cases. I also full length resize because I don't separate my reloads per rifle. I also crimp all my reloads, differing only by how much, whether it be for semi-auto or bolt, cast or copper.

And that is where you and I differ, I believe property owners have the right to protect what is theirs, by what ever means necessary, within the law of course. Again, the police have no duty to protect your property, so who else is there? If someone has the means and will to do so then more power to them. Maybe if more criminals end up dieing when commiting their crimes there would be less crime.

So you think nobody should protect their property? The police don't even have to protect you, or your property. Because the law doesn't allow claymores I choose to protect my property while being armed with a gun. The law allows me to use force to keep what I have and defend myself with lethal force should the thief choose escalation. I don't understand everyone's defense of these thiefs, they choose to put themselves in these situations, so let them reap what they sow.

Make sure the die body is clean and no residue is in there. And while lubing isn't necessary with carbide dies and straight wall cases it doesn't hurt to use it.

While for the military it has been acknowledged that having multiple lines of supplies from other armies is a good idea, it has only recently started to be the case for LEO departments. Most civil shooting incidents are over in minutes, and longer incidents are either hostage or other standoffs where ammo shortages are unlikely to occur. But with the incidents like the Chattanooga shootings, San Bernardino etc, LEO departments better be thinking ahead and get their departments better equipped and trained because there may come a day where they may just be in a prolonged firefight with perps that have no fear of death and mass casualties are their main goal.

BS; first, Todd having the mental toughness and mental discipline to do all that is probably somebody on your side. Todd, wants to go home at the end of the day, Todd does not want your measly $20 you may have in your wallet, and Todd, having undergone all that training is probably doing all this overseas to the same people that we all want to have it done to. No, Todd is not the guy you need to worry about; it's Fred Crackhead, and Mohammed Martyr which pose the greatest risk. Fred, wakes around 1pm after a night shooting up heroin or smoking crack. He needs another fix, he has honed his skill by shoplifting, breaking into cars and houses. He doesn't really care if anyone is there or not, his only goal is the next fix. He started off carrying a piece of pipe someone threw out, upgraded to a knife in one of the home burglaries then scored a nice 1911 when he broke into a truck looking for loose change, he was almost caught though, but he managed to give the owner the slip. Fred has now decided that loose change just isn't cutting it, he decides to go for the big score so he picks a nice store to rob, and look there is a sign out front letting him know that nobody inside will confront him. So he begins his robbery when what do you know, the trucks owner just walked in... Mohammed, wakes at 4am tired and restless from the long flight the night before. He has just completed a 6 month course in Somalia where they taught him hand to hand combat, how to shoot rifles handguns and RPGs. John, I mean Mohammed, mustn't make that mistake again; it could mean his head...Mohammed has come back home to the US. He was born in Michigan, dated a high school cheerleader, worked his dad's farm, but became dissolutioned after graduation, thought Obama was going to fix things, after all he is one of them. But listening to his heroes Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright he has come to the realization that only he can strike a blow for Allah. So he straps on a his vest made just like his explosives instructor taught him using dynamite his dad was planning on using for those stumps in the new pasture and loads his equipment into the old ford. His chosen targets, the local water supply, his friend Thomas, err I mean Maliki, brought over some powder to dump into the pumping station, it's right by the stadium where the big homecoming game is scheduled to be played. He knows security will be light, after all nothing can happen here, but he has had a friend supply him with a new AK-47 just in case...

Just tell her she could do better, and a better gun would help too :angel:  :devil:

While I generally agree that some prosecutor wanting to make their bones or some bleeding heart jury may get you locked up, even in a good shoot; I think staying out of jail is way down in my priorities when it comes to self-defense. I would rather be alive in court than dead, just saying. A criminal has already made the decision to risk a confrontation, which has a possibility for violence, the victim has not and they are not mind reader's so there is no telling what a criminal will do. So while Monday morning quarterbacks may see things differently it's the two in the confrontation at the end of the day that have the best view. And if there is only one side of the story, well...

That works for militaries like ours; I rarely seen any extremists try and haul their wounded away.  Heck in some cases they left them there booby trapped to try and get the ones coming to their aid.

Its actually HEET, made for removing water from fuel: http://www.walmart.com/ip/HEET-Gasline-Antifreeze-and-Water-Remover/16408667  And the liquid lanolin can be had here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00028MLKC/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=25R5S1EY0JMI3&coliid=IXRRQI5DIBKHL   Works great, I mix it in a small spray bottle and it lasts a long time.

Welcome to the site.

Actually pulls do OK with 300 BLK, just don't expect MOA accuracy. Graf's gets some now and then, here are some tracer pulls: https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/26341

I don't try to catch it most times, I just turn it and eject onto the bench. The only issue I see is that you will have to use an awkward grip and the weapon or slide may slip out of your hand. I suppose if the slide or something hit the primer it could detonate but the same could be said of a live round ejected onto the gravel. But like I said, I normally don't try and catch a live round, I usually have a towel or mat handy on the bench to catch it.

Pretty good, but not sure about that dirty ass weapon carried by that clean operator. I'll get dirty before my weapon will, even if it's designed to, like the AKs.

I agree, and for the M4 and sniper rifles they have, sort of. But the hollow point is tricky, the Hague convention of 1907 mandated that bullets (and other stuff)must not cause unnecessary suffering, so many soft tip and hollow points have been shunned. I don't get it personally, it's mandated for a clean kill in game animals but not in enemy combatants? I would think that a good quality bullet would be mandatory. http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html

What a load of BS, next they will be using "Born to Kill" tattoos and t-shirts like the one below to argue the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I think it was a poor decision to put that on a service weapon, whether issued or not but to make that leap is BS. All this is, is a lawyer throwing everything up against the wall to see what will stick; with the body cam footage they should have enough to rule one way or another, there is no need to BS with all this anti-gun crap. We were first issued some Trijicon scopes with scriptures on it that we had to return due to the way it looked to the public, did that mean we were on a crusade? Nope, just PC gone wild. :sick: And those snafus went straight to the top, we started to build up for Afghanistan under "Operation Infinite Justice" but changed to "Operation Enduring Freedom" due to Muslim sensitivities. Where will this end?

We, DOD, have a few calibers in our inventory that may not be fully NATO compliant.  But there are few in numbers and it is understood that we bear the burden of providing ammo for them.  I don't know if there has been any instances where one NATO member has had to "borrow" from another NATO, but that is the reason there is a standard.  I guess if there were an all out war, some factories may be taken out so others would have to provide supplies to other NATO nations.

In the military there are many reasons they do what they do and how they do it.  First, as was stated, there is standardizing ammo within NATO units, the 9mm is not going away so any mention of .45, .40 or any other caliber is probably a moot point.  Second, logistics; it is much cheaper for DOD to purchase in bulk, so there will be very few models it keeps in inventory do to initial price and most importantly is the support package that gets negotiated when a contract is assigned.  A weapon must have x amount of parts in inventory before it is fielded, just in case something comes up such as the cracked slides in the M9 early on.  While I agree that the sidearm is not up there with your battle rifle, it should be a reliable piece of equipment; its not important until it is.

Unless done on purpose you would know right off as I doubt you could get a good crimp.  If done on purpose it would probably be a real light load due possibly to unburned powder, the shot would pattern horribly and may even cause some damage to the barrel as it bounced along it.   

I thought so at first, but they portrayed her as going a bit soft as soon as she heard Maggie was pregnant.  Then after they killed all those Negan groupies she continued to act squirrely, I hope they are not setting her up for PTSD.