What did YOU reload today

Dr.Tramp said:

When searching for small pistol primers I saw several places in Australia that them in stock. I realize that AU hasn't had the firearm and ammo panic buying that we've had in the US but just how well stocked are your suppliers for ammo and reloading components?
Ride Safe. Dr.Tramp............

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I don't know about other stores over here. My Gun Guy deals pretty much with Pro shooters and has always had massive stocks of Ammo and Reloading expendables. I always love going there ,when he has a sporting shooter buying 100 projectiles ,100 primers and a pound of powder! The expression on their faces, when somebody like me arrives to pick up 5000 projectiles ,10,000 primers and 20 lbs of different powders ,is priceless ! We then have to explain to them about the volumes that people like me shoot!
Many years ago I was working in Western Australia out on the Nulabour Plain. I was due to go on leave and a Rabbit processor asked me if I could pick up a order of .22 lr as his supply was running low. Now he had about 9 or 10 shooter's working for him at the time. the order was for 100,000 rnds which was a couple of months supply! I arrived in Adelaide and the Gun store was in a major road in the CBD. Not a problem ,I pulled up in a loading zone only (I figured I was loading ). I picked up the first load of ammo and took it out to my truck. I grabbed a young store assistant, to watch over what I had already loaded. Then I went back for another load. On my return ,there's the store assistant (shaking like a leaf I remember) and 2 burly Cops! I wandered out and the Kid points to me and one of the Cops says to me words to the effect of is this your ammo? Now not being used to big cities ,I replied no it's for a chap in WA ! How much ammo is there asks one of the cops and I tell him! Well things started to get a little heated and voices were raised! The Store owner heard this and came out and poured oil on troubled waters! I look back and laugh about it these days ,but I still remember how angry I was getting as I was just getting ,what I judged to be a normal order of ammo!

Eley ammo has always been expensive over here! On saying that though, over the years I've only found one .22 lr that hated it ! That was my Fieldman .22 rifle! It used to be my go to Rabbit shooting rifle when I was shooting them for a living! Winchester Australia used to produce 3 different Generic brands of .22 lr Diamond, which was cheap ,Winner which was cheap and nasty and Bushman ,which came under the heading of ........That's all you've got? Yet my Fieldman would shoot 1/4 inch groups at 75 yards all day and night! With Diamond or Winner! There was a subsidiary of Eley in Australia for many years and they sold ammo under the Name of ICI! There was a brand of .22 ammo sold as Civic it was reasonably priced and it shot well and hit hard!

You cut the box along one edge as there was a target printed on the inside!
They also manufactured C/F ammo under the Brand of Imperial! Which included most of the .303 Wild Cats .22/243/257/270-303!

Dr.Tramp said:

The Eley stuff wasn't cheap before the panic buying and now it's like gold.
That's weird about the Fieldman. Was it a Naughton Fieldman with the thumb hole stock?
They're supposed to be pretty nice rifles.
Ride Safe. Dr.Tramp.............

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It most certainly is! A left handed model


The old Girl has made me a lot of money over the years!