I quit drinking and needed a new hobby to keep me busy. Idle hands are the devils playthings.. One of the reasons I never got into reloading was because of the drinking. I must admit any money saved by not buying booze has been offset with the new addiction
I got an estimated $2,000 worth of stuff from a Nice fella' on here for $600! He had it in a storage unit for over a year. He stated that he had a personal rule that if he didn't touch anything for a year or more it had to go. I'd like to think that any good deals seen on here for reloading stuff is because someone doesn't expect to recoup the vast majority of their initial investment or that they'd Like to pass it along to a fellow firearms enthusiast. I always thought my old man was a pack rat, but as I become older I realize that there are certain things that you should hang on too because they will never be any cheaper and maybe not even readily available. I look at reloading stuff like this.
If you don't have the time, perhaps you have the space. I'd keep it until it got in the way or I really decided that in my life time I, my family, or even close friends would never get into it. The proceeds from selling it could benefit something you find more productive in Life and perhaps it could get someone into the Hobby that might not have ever got into it. 2020 and beyond, I don't see ammo getting cheaper, reloading components any cheaper.. and certain legalities/taxes of all of it may come into question.
We have been blessed witch cheap Oil the last few years. Crude is on the rise and may continue. Oil goes up, everything goes up.. Brass, Lead, Powder, Ammo. Roll your owns make sense again.
I have a rack of Disc Golf Frisbees maybe 300+.. Probably $2k worth.. I look at them collecting dust and have thought in all of my years playing, I have taken breaks, and picked it up again. I have seen 50 year olds throwing.. So I have a good 20 years before I disregard them. It was just one of those hobby's id do while drinking.. so it got put on timeout for a while.
Whatever you decide to do with it, although not exactly like riding a bike.. but if there ever came a time when you needed to load some or show someone how to.. you will most likely retain a lot the knowledge for the rest of your life. Hand loaders to me are the REAL 3%'s.
I got an estimated $2,000 worth of stuff from a Nice fella' on here for $600! He had it in a storage unit for over a year. He stated that he had a personal rule that if he didn't touch anything for a year or more it had to go. I'd like to think that any good deals seen on here for reloading stuff is because someone doesn't expect to recoup the vast majority of their initial investment or that they'd Like to pass it along to a fellow firearms enthusiast. I always thought my old man was a pack rat, but as I become older I realize that there are certain things that you should hang on too because they will never be any cheaper and maybe not even readily available. I look at reloading stuff like this.
If you don't have the time, perhaps you have the space. I'd keep it until it got in the way or I really decided that in my life time I, my family, or even close friends would never get into it. The proceeds from selling it could benefit something you find more productive in Life and perhaps it could get someone into the Hobby that might not have ever got into it. 2020 and beyond, I don't see ammo getting cheaper, reloading components any cheaper.. and certain legalities/taxes of all of it may come into question.
We have been blessed witch cheap Oil the last few years. Crude is on the rise and may continue. Oil goes up, everything goes up.. Brass, Lead, Powder, Ammo. Roll your owns make sense again.
I have a rack of Disc Golf Frisbees maybe 300+.. Probably $2k worth.. I look at them collecting dust and have thought in all of my years playing, I have taken breaks, and picked it up again. I have seen 50 year olds throwing.. So I have a good 20 years before I disregard them. It was just one of those hobby's id do while drinking.. so it got put on timeout for a while.
Whatever you decide to do with it, although not exactly like riding a bike.. but if there ever came a time when you needed to load some or show someone how to.. you will most likely retain a lot the knowledge for the rest of your life. Hand loaders to me are the REAL 3%'s.