Can I trust someone else's work?

[LOCKHART]

I had a federal license to make ammo, as long as it wasnt for "destructive devices" back
in 1975-82. I had it because we were selling the original Automag pistols, and NOBODY
made ammo for them, at that time. Kinda hard to sell a high dollar semiauto pistol
if there is no ammunition for them! ATF will come out and inspect your premises, just
to make sure of what you are doing. Nowdays, you will have to have a storefront address
they tell me, or you not gonna get the license. I talked to ATF bout a year ago, and thats
the info they gave me then. The guy I talked to at ATF was one rude bastid! If you are
gonna make ammo for sale, you DO have to have a Federal license!

 

[Sunshine]

^ I figured as much...

 

[rp-]

I shot my old dealers auto-mags in SD once upon a time. 22mag and a carbine I believe. Fun as hell!

 

[Deavis]

I have been saving brass off and on over the years with plans to get into reloading. I have recently started again and the other day figured I had enough to make it worth an investment. I've looked into reloaders and can't afford the TIME for it right now (new baby girl + 3 other daughters = busy daddy...).

Anyone have any recommendation?

What caliber(s)? You can come down to the shop and load them if I've got a press setup for it. If you don't have components, you can buy them from me at cost. Save you the shipping costs of sending them to Nebraska and you'll be able to trust your work. Thousand rounds isn't much more than an hour on a 1050, two if you are slow. less than 20m on the Camdex or Ammoload.

 

[rp-]

Damn. I have about 500 9mm, 100 40, 50 45, 50 270. 30-40 7mm rem mag. 10-15 257 Roberts. 7-8 30-40 Krag.

Honestly the Krag and roberts I don't really need and you could have them I will also likely have much more before I'd be able to make it down.

Where are you located?

If I brought primers and bullets could I buy the powder from you and buy you a case of beer to rent your machines??

 

[Army 1911]

I won't shoot someone else's loads and I won't let someone else shoot mine.
If money is involved, a license is required.

 

[Deavis]

Rp, I'm loading and processing 9 right now on the ammoload, and I can swap the 100 over for the 40 and 45 since the quantity is so low. 7mm mag, no issue, but I don't have dies for the other ones. We are down in Buda, about 5m from cabelas.

My cost for primers and bullets will beat yours most likely, no need to pay more at retail.

Pm me we can workout the details

 

[grasshopperglock]

Lol, see?

Now youre gonna be hooked.

Take a tube ride while your down that way. Make it a reload/tubbing trip.

"Sent from a jail"

 

[rp-]

...I have no desire to float down the Guadalupe while 1000 people drink too much beer without a bathroom in sight.....

 

[grasshopperglock]

Lmao

That's F'ed up.

True.....but Fu€ked up


"Sent from a jail"

 

[rp-]

Haha! When I moved here in 2010 one of the first people I met said not to do it. He said his friend got VD after falling in the rivel while tubing and nearly drowning. True or not, I don't care. Its enough for me not to go... But I'm in north east San Antonio kinda. There's a driving range 10 minutes from me that serves beer and 2 shooting ranges 30 minutes away. Too bad 90% of people couldn't be trusted to drink while shooting :-/

 

[Younggun]

Lol, VD from a tubing trip.

That's like getting pregnant in a hot tub or crabs from a toilet seat.


Probably easier to tell his girlfriend though.

 

[rp-]

I think he was hitting for the other team. The guy that told me about it sure was.

 

[rlw454]

I don't/ I have had trouble with some peoples reloads/now I just shoot my own

 

[LOCKHART]

Rp, the Automag's I was referring to, were the original Harry Sanford-Max Gera designed
recoil operated pistols. The first one's were in .44 Automag, soon after, .357 Automag, which
was simply the .44 case run into .357 Automag die and necked down. To make these fine
pistols operate as a SEMI-AUTO, the pressures required were probably in the mid 65 thousand
psi range. Speer came out with some loads in one of their later manuals which were a joke! If
you used those, you had a high dollar single shot pistol.

 

[Reinz]

I've got a couple 44 automags that I have retired. Actually one is unfired.

I had 357 AM, but sold it to my brother when I was out of work.

They are fun to shoot and ammo is... a challenge to make if you don't have the brass. Then you cut down and ream out 308 brass and fire form.

Yeah that 357 round went 2000 fps or so. Most indoor ranges would not let me shoot it. They said it would go through the backstop. So I had to talk them into letting me use the rifle lane.

 

[rp-]

Ah, Im familiar with those automags... I wish I had those rounds for my cartridge collection....

I have about 70-75 different cartridges in a collection I have had going for a few years. Just kinda something I fell into after a friend couldn't figure out the caliber of one of his rifles so we started trying my cartridges to see what would fit and what bullets would fit in the bore through the muzzle. Before I realized it I had pulled out 16 different cartridges and just stuck with it. I've got a couple cool ones in there too! Maybe I need to make a thread to see if I can get some fellow gunners to donate a few single rounds for me.


Any chance either of you two still have either of the automag cartridges??

 

[Reinz]

^^^
I gave all of mine to my brother in CA when I retired mine.

He's in the hospital now dealing with some serious juju.

 

[Reinz]

There's automag ammo for sale all time on gunbroker and the AM forum, even for just a few rounds.

 

[rp-]

I haven't resorted to buying them online yet, though I did buy a 25-25 sharps and a 41 rimfire at a show once. Everything else I have acquired in trades if guns/ammo/'sessories by just asking people if they have any odd calibers and could part with a single round. Most people are more than happy to help out.

I just recently got 1 round of .42berdain. Never even heard of those before until this guy gave me one.