Factory shells or handrolled?

[skeet]

Fabs...I don't shoot anywhere near as much as I used to. For at least 9 years I shot more than 50,000 shells a year at pigeons blackbirds bumblebees dragonflies and trap. We didn't have sporting clays then. Even shot a little skeet every now and then. I loaded every day so I could shoot on the weekends...and some nights. I loaded shells for 2..my mentor in the shooting fields and myself. I had to load 2000 shells or more every week on a single stage mec reloader. Had that sucker down to a science. 200 shells or a little more per hour...and no primer feed either..

6.5's--- I hear ya on the gun clubs etc. I have bought and sold more than 400 cases in the last 4 months...and I mean cases..20 box cases. 800 flats as they call them now. It's still cheaper to reload but not by much...and the prices of Top guns and Estates are going up too. Don't know how long shot will stay up...hopefully not too long but by April we will be looking at $3.00 diesel fuel and gas. Got that word from my connection at the local oil supplier(he's a shooter). Shutting down some refineries for maintenance in April.

I know I am a bit older than you all...but when I first started reloading in 1959 a box of 12 ga shells cost about 47 cents to reload. Paper shells of course. My first case of shells (Peters trap loads) cost $21.00 Things have gone up just a little bit