9mm ammo - but not the cheap stuff

[sceva]

I take from your post that as o got older you found less time available to reload, and went shooting a lot less as well, (both the same as in my own case),and that since you went shooting a lot less, that the savings and benefit from reloading went way down.

If I have this correct, that is exactly what I described in my own post/response.

Yes. That is what happened. laid off from Mcdonnell Douglas early 1990's so I went back to school at 40 to get a Quality Assurance AAS Degree. Then a Job offer and a move from Ohio to Illinois so I pretty much stopped hunting and shooting for a while. In retirement I have mostly shot my .22's; a K-22 Masterpiece and a Model 41. Now days since retirement I stay busy with the Grandkids and factory ammo suites me well enough so I gave a lot of my reloading gear away to a friend of my Son-in-laws. The last thing I ever loaded was a box of .45 Colt

 

[vlavalle]

Yes. That is what happened. laid off from Mcdonnell Douglas early 1990's so I went back to school at 40 to get a Quality Assurance AAS Degree. Then a Job offer and a move from Ohio to Illinois so I pretty much stopped hunting and shooting for a while. In retirement I have mostly shot my .22's; a K-22 Masterpiece and a Model 41. Now days since retirement I stay busy with the Grandkids and factory ammo suites me well enough so I gave a lot of my reloading gear away to a friend of my Son-in-laws. The last thing I ever loaded was a box of .45 Colt

That was so commendable that you 'retooled' yourself and had another career! I am also retired, and got too busy in my career,raising kids, traveling, etc. Now I have some time to go shooting! I recently bought a ballistic chronograph because I DO NO T BELIEVE lot of the ammo ballistics given on ammo retail sites (mainly manufacturing numbers, like AMSCOR, but I totally believe BUFFALO BORE! I have not had the chance to take it out an test any ammo yet. I have created a very large ballistics fill that covers 35 handgun calibers and 25 rifle ones, and the file has over 4,000 entries, where each entry is a link to a website that sells that sells that exact ammo. I get the ballistics info from these site.. ai cn test only 4 different habd gun cakivsm ab no ik ons since I DO NOT OWN ANY RIFLES (long guns). Thix file (PDF formt) is still free to anyone who requests it. OF Course, there is nothing about reloading in it!