Loading quantity

[white ghost]

So I have a philosophical question of sorts.....
If you have a developed load that works well in your particular set up and let us contend that you will never be rid of this particular set up, do you load all of the available components you have to that specific load and store properly for later use or do you load small batches and reserve the remainder of your components?

I know my answer, but curious as to other's considerations.

 

[palmettomoon]

Load what I need for a season.

 

[madcow]

Load what I use for the year, but I continue to buy components on a monthly basis for the next year to spread the cost.. One thing you can guarantee, component prices always go up.

 

[MuleShoe]

I usually will load 350 or so rounds at a time on stuff I shoot a lot and stuff that don’t get shot much I’ll load a 150 . If I’m stressed out I may go to the reloading building and stay 3 or 4 hours and load 1500 rounds of 38 or 45 acp . Reloading has been my major stress relief for 35 years. These days Primers’s are harder to find and higher so that changes things a little. Had to ride 90’miles and pay $100’a thousand on federal match large rifle primers and $80 a thousand on small pistol primers Monday and only able to get 2000 each.

 

[Horsehat]

I usually will load 350 or so rounds at a time on stuff I shoot a lot and stuff that don’t get shot much I’ll load a 150 . If I’m stressed out I may go to the reloading building and stay 3 or 4 hours and load 1500 rounds of 38 or 45 acp . Reloading has been my major stress relief for 35 years. These days Primers’s are harder to find and higher so that changes things a little. Had to ride 90’miles and pay $100’a thousand on federal match large rifle primers and $80 a thousand on small pistol primers Monday and only able to get 2000 each.

I have loaded way more than I have shot over the years which gives me a different perspective than most when they start carping about the ammo shortages.

 

[richs]

I usually will load 350 or so rounds at a time on stuff I shoot a lot and stuff that don’t get shot much I’ll load a 150 . If I’m stressed out I may go to the reloading building and stay 3 or 4 hours and load 1500 rounds of 38 or 45 acp . Reloading has been my major stress relief for 35 years. These days Primers’s are harder to find and higher so that changes things a little. Had to ride 90’miles and pay $100’a thousand on federal match large rifle primers and $80 a thousand on small pistol primers Monday and only able to get 2000 each.

I have loaded way more than I have shot over the years which gives me a different perspective than most when they start carping about the ammo shortages.

I'm kind of both. I usually load 200 to 300 rounds at a time (same caliber) and usually during lone, boring meetings (I work from home and my loading bench is next to my work desk). Since I've been involved in a LOT of long, boring meetings since the coof, I built up a nice stockpile with the supplies I had before the fan blades broke off. I've stopped reloading for the past year since components were hard/impossible to find.
SO... last summer, one of the local stores has a supply of SPP primers one month and a load of SRP primers the next, for $100 per box. I bit the bullet (so to speak) and got 3 boxes of each. But I was down to a couple pounds of powder, but I still had a nice surplus of ammo. A couple weeks ago, that same store got a big shipment of powder (and the type I like) so I got 10 pounds at a $1 premium over the last time I got that powder...
SO... I loaded a few hundred rounds, and realized I didn't have any more room in my ammo locker... guess I need to go to the range.

 

[87KJH]

For shotshells I try to keep a couple of flats of reloads for each gauge. When I shoot 100 or 200 on a weekend for example, I try to reload 100 or 200 during the next few weeks rotating oldest to newest. Some of the hulls get lost or develop "split ends" so I am always introducing new or once fired hulls into the mix.

I find that loading in 100 round increments keeps the reloading enjoyable. If I were to load 500 or 1000 at a time it would seem like "work".

 

[white ghost]

Great responses so far, I appreciate the communication. I categorize my ammo in certain ways.
Range fodder-buy it(load) cheap and stack it deep. Because for higher speed training, you will not see the difference between .5moa and 2moa so it can feed in a variety of firearms acceptably.

Hunting- Each of my rifles tend to like a little different load, even in the same caliber so I find no need to load 1k rounds of a caliber that may only shoot mediocre in 3 out 4 of my guns. Plus, I usually intentionally set up each gun for its respective purpose. I.E. 1 of my 30-06 is set up for general hunting and likes a thin skin gamed bullet(SGK). 1 of them is set up for longer range stuff and lives on SMK's. 1 is set up for cast projectiles in the 2200 fps range for fun and the last one only sees reduced load jacketed stuff because it is a hand me down from my father that he got in the 70's and if anyone knows what the older 742 woods master is, then they already know why.

This is how I usually do my stuff, and for higher volume rounds it annoys me to adjust my progressive to dial in a different load. So if I start feeding it, we are not stopping for at least 500 so I don't have to feed it again for a few months.

 

[Seacap]

So I have a philosophical question of sorts.....
If you have a developed load that works well in your particular set up and let us contend that you will never be rid of this particular set up, do you load all of the available components you have to that specific load and store properly for later use or do you load small batches and reserve the remainder of your components?

I know my answer, but curious as to other's considerations.

Load an amount, and save some..I never let myself run out of primers, and powder and shot

 

[JPMurph]

I load way ahead for shotgun. I don’t see any variance over time. Same with pistol rounds. I load what I need for my bench rest stuff. Things just seem to change over time.