Orm-d

[randyt]

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

[Rick]

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.

[kyratshooter]

Is that all those Swiss 6.5 blanks?

[randyt]

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.

[kyratshooter]

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.