[Texas Fossil]

I am pretty basic. Like levers, 30-30 & .348. Neither hard on brass. Easy reloads. A must on .348, but picked up some of the Hornady Leverevolution bullets recently, effective range stretchers.

Also like my XP100 fireball. Tack driver pistol.

Had some reloading supplies on order for 3+ weeks with one supplier. They are covered up with orders, sounds like mine will ship last of the month.

I have never seen brass this short. Really having to scrounge to get stocked up.

I am more interested in having hunting rounds than the .223 stuff. Lots of game in the area and if push comes to shove, we will eat.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I used to cast linotype bullets for the 30/30, they did fine on deer at about 1900 fps.

[JRandomFreeper]

The family is wading in brass. Some we have firearms for, some, the family used to have firearms for. I went digging in the ammo cans a few weeks ago and ask around about who had a certain weird Swedish rifle that I had never heard of... no-one knows. Must have been something dad had for a while and got rid of. He's dead and doesn't answer questions anymore.

Powder, we have. Bullets, push comes to shove, we can cast, and I've got the gear to make the casting dies that we don't already have.

Primers, that's more difficult, but according to my informal census, we've got enough to handle that little Mexican-American war thing again, with centerfire, without resorting to caps and nipples.

/johnny