Old habits…

…die hard, as they say, and I think I am probably living proof of that.   I am at a point in life that I could afford to buy factory ammo, but I just can’t leave brass laying around at the range.  I think it is actually cheaper to buy new factory-loaded 9mm ammo (at least when it goes on sale) than it is to reload it, but I still roll my own 9mm and I still pick up my brass when I’m finished shooting.  It’s what I learned as a kid, it’s what they trained us to do on the range when I was in the Army, and it’s what I still do when I get out to the range.   It’s a habit.

When I see brass laying around on the ground that other shooters don’t want, I scoop that up, too.  It’s just seems wasteful to leave it there.  The bottom line is that I probably have enough 9mm brass stashed in my reloading room to start a candelabra factory, but I’ll still keep picking it up.   I can’t buy 9mm ammo that is as accurate as the stuff I load (and in case you’re wondering, that’s a 125 gr cast roundnose bullet with 5.0 grains of Unique).  To me, the mark of a good day at the range is leaving with more brass than I had when I arrived, and I have a lot of good days at the range.