[Shooter 2.5]

Rain for the last week and the range is flooded. I hadn’t been able to find any lead cast bullets for a month without paying through the nose. I finally broke down and bought 3000 for the .45 auto. Wouldn’t you know it by the next week, the ammo store was back in production so I bought another 2 grand. I won’t get caught short like that again.

With rain comes reloading all those empties. I was able to load about 1200 this weekend. A good start.

I’m going to try to do a little better this season at IDPA.

[Myrddin]

I purchased my 1911 when I was in San Diego with unlimited access to an indoor range. Recovering the brass to reload was easy. Now that I'm in Idaho with only an outdoor range, the situation is very different. It's very hard to recover all my brass. I've only purchased one additional semi-auto handgun for that reason. All the rest are center-fire revolvers or rim-fire semi-autos. I've maintained the same basic philsophy with the rifles too. Bolt action or single shot for all center-fire with the exception of steel cased ammo for 7.62x39 in the SKS. Two of my .223 rifles are semi-auto. I make a point of recovering that brass. Fortunately, the ejectors are nicely tuned. The brass almost falls at my feet.

I had hoped that winter would be a fine time for reloading here. The garage is really too cold at that time. Summer is fine...if the garage door is left closed. Once opened, the hot, dry air makes the garage unpleasant again. In San Diego I did most of my reloading on Sunday nights while listening to Drudge on the radio. Evening temperatures were always fairly comfortable. Not so in Idaho. I can't even count on the local radio station to have Drudge. They pre-empted him for a NASCAR race last night. No big loss. He was stuck on finding a replacement for Rosie O'donuts.