There have been so many ammo and reloading components "shortages" in the past many years that there is no excuse for a gun owner to let themselves get short of ammo.
Except if they can't spare the money.
My having two shooting ranges, including a backyard range, I do a good bit of shooting, of mostly reloaded ammo.
Although I maintain a large stock of factory ammo to.
I guess I average shooting 3-6 times a week.
I told the neighbors,
"If you don't hear me shooting for about 4 days, you might check on me to see if there's something wrong".
Last year a neighbor lady did call because, "I hadn't been shooting for at least four days and I had "laundry" on the line for four days".
I thanked her and told her the "laundry" was just some old T Shirts I used for cat rags and was too lazy to take down.
If you do a fair amount of shooting, reloading your own ammo is the way to go.
And stay STOCKED UP on powder and primers and 22 ammo. It's better than money in the bank.
Along with reloading, you might consider casting your own bullets.
For many years I cast my own 38, 9mm, 45, etc bullets.
But I haven't cast bullets in MANY years, although the equipment was still on the table in the barn.
It's easier to just buy the lead bullets a few thousand at a time.
One morning a couple weeks ago I started "fooling"with the bullet casting setup and quickly made a couple thousand 9mm/38 bullets.
Then sized/ loaded and shot them.
Since then I've cast about 5-6 thousand bullets in several mornings. Even though I have some thousands of factory bullets, I've found that casting these thousands of lead bullets in the morning is fun.
Since this picture was taken, that pile of lead, on the right, plus a couple more piles, have been turned into bullets.
Excuse me.
I think I'll go cast/load a few hundred lead bullets.
