Is it time to have a Funeral for these Reloading Products?

General Discussion Reloading
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My preferences in web browsing is to have 400+ windows open in Chrome and a few dozen windows open in other browsers, according to what I’m doing.

Normally I have 2 windows open for reloading stuff, each with 15, 20, or 25 links, of stuff I’m waiting to be in stock, etc.

For example, the Gold Dot bonded bullets at Speer.

But they haven’t been in stock for 2 years.

Same for 6.5 Creedmoor brass at Starline.
https://www.starlinebrass.com/rifle-brass

So I guess it’s time to get some computer memory back, and close out some Reloading Tabs.

Goodbye Speer Gold Dot rifle bullets. I will treasure the 140 grain 6.5 millimeter bullets I already have, but I don’t expect to buy any more unless I find finished ammo and do pull-downs to get the bullets. A very expensive way to get bullets.

Goodbye, Primary Arms Mil Dot Scope ! Got about 8 of them, will have to make do with what I have.

Goodbye 5000 packs of primers at Target Sports.

I’m still carrying a Torch for the 150 grain Barnes TTSX, at Midway. They’re in stock occasionally.

Goodbye Deadair e-Brake. I thought I could get another 3 dB of sound reduction out of one of these. Might never find out now !

Still carrying a torch for the 75 grain 223 Gold Dot. Not closing that one out, but I’m probably just being stubborn.

The BRIGHT SIDE of reloading price increases - Vihtavuori is comparatively more affordable ! And it’s in stock.

But I have enough IMR 3031, I don’t need to spend $150 to try out Vihtavuori N133.

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The one thing I’ve noticed about reloading stuff is that once the price goes up it never comes down. Primer prices have gone up more than gold I bet.

For what you can get, the trick is bulk: 8# bottles of powder, 500-1000 bullets, 5-10k bulk primers when you can find them.

1# bottle of IMR 4831 powder at $50+ is ridiculous.

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Talking to other people at the rifle range, I hear about how there have been shortages before, sometimes related to increased demand, sometimes related to Pronouncements by the gun-grabbers, sometimes occurring after mass shootings in the US.

They say it like, Demand comes and goes, ebbs & floes.

But I have a feeling that this time might be different.

I like IMR 4831, was just assembling some 6.5 Creedmoor bullets with the 144 grain Lapua FMJ, which I think is a good match for IMR 4831.

$50 a pound is expensive. Are you in the US or Australia ?

I recommend watching the bulletin board at the rifle range. I bought some 7828 in a 1 pound can, from some guy with re-loading stuff who was moving to California.

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Like most reloaders, I have recipes for various calibers that I use over and over, like IMR 4831, Speer #2040 for my 30-06 loads that have great results. I don’t want to spend the time to work up another recipe but I will if I have to.

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What distance is that at ?

I notice that Zero at 100 is different than Zero at 300 or 400.

One day I was wondering about my Zero at 400.

Couldn’t see it actually hit the cable, but the 400 steel disc dropped, so I think I hit the last fiber in the cable holding the steel disc.

So I guess it was zeroed at 400.

I notice some Spin Drift, like a hook or slice in golf. More so with low BC bullets, a very reliable arc to the right with 350 Legend at 300 yards.

I would like to see an instrumented rifle range, with Chronographs at 100, 200, 300, & 400.

And high speed cameras on the steel discs.

You might need an especially high speed camera for that.

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200 yard zero shooting at 100 yards off of a bag, not a vice.

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Another option is to have a cron job that executes Chrome from the command line at an appointed time and loads a designated web page.

I have hundreds of web pages that pop-up at defined intervals so that I can watch items that are perpetually out of stock. The memory gets released when the windows get closed so I never have to maintain an obscene number of open windows, run out of memory, or move memory to swap.

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I know that this is old but how do you do that?

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You can create a schedule task: Schtasks: Management Services | Microsoft Learn
you can also create a PowerShell script and run it from the scheduler - I prefer to use schedule to call a PowerShell script. It’s easier to modify the script than the scheduled task.
PowerShell to open edge and navigate to a page: Start-Process -FilePath “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe” -ArgumentList ‘–start-fullscreen “https://palmettostatearmory.com/”’

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Thanks, I was hoping it was something simple, like nuclear physics…