Orm-d

Santa Claus dropped off some boxes marked ORM-D. About three hundred pounds worth. Now to find time and more importantly energy to do something with it. LOL

Hey! I know him. He's been to my house a few times. Nice guy. Never weighed that much when he was around here. Probably holiday meals.

Is that all those Swiss 6.5 blanks?

yup the 6.5 swede blanks, all 4800 rounds of them. Now I need to look through the bullet molds and see what might be there.

I just got a shipment myself!

An assortment of .308 steel cased stuff for accuracy testing. Whichever is best will get a bulk purchase after Christmas.

I have reached a crossover point with .308 where the surplus stuff is cheaper than I can reload the same.

Unless I am doing precision long distance target loading or hunting soft points it is not worth the time taken for case prep and production. My reload cost is $0.45 just for powder/primer/slug and I can buy surplus for $0.36!

I have never worried about keeping a big stash of .308 due to reloading them, but a small stockpile of that particular caliber is becoming an attractive goal.

I can combine the versatility of the 30 caliber components due to loading for .308/30-06/.300win-mag with only a shift in powders.

My 30-30 reloads are mainly cast lead propelled by pistol powder, so I can shoot them as cheap as a .22lr. They are not up to factory performance but they do reach that "good enough" threshold so you could shoot a deer with them if that was what you had in your hands when you saw it.