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whats your opinion?
out of all the shooters out their how many of them reload?what do you think?
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12-27-2011, 04:17 AM
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12-27-2011, 06:23 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I am going to go with 20%. Not a single mall ninja i know reloads they all buy tulammo.
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12-27-2011, 06:49 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
Under 10% is my guess. I suspect a rather large percentage of gun owners do not shoot very often either.
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12-27-2011, 08:40 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
If the question was, "how many competition shooters reload their own ammo", I'd guess at 95%.
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12-27-2011, 08:53 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I'll go along with Worm at less than 5%. I am the only one of the Old Guys that reloads. In fact I don't have any friends around here that reload.
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12-27-2011, 09:22 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
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Which brings to mind another question, for which I also have no worthwhile guess... Just what percentage of our fellow countrymen gun-owners are actually shooters? Or, how about regular shooters? |
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12-27-2011, 09:43 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I have no idea but, I would guess that the higher volume of shooter they are, the more likely they are to reload.
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12-27-2011, 10:38 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
From my own time asking at my club it seems about 2 out of 10 are reloading.
I tend to see new shooters (last 5-6 years) are not, and experienced shooters (8+ years) are way more likely to be.
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12-27-2011, 11:08 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I am clueless.
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12-27-2011, 11:11 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
 What howln said!! I wouldn't even venture a guess.
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12-27-2011, 11:48 AM
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Re: whats your opinion?
50% of the shooters in my house are reloaders. My wife just shoots .22s for the most part.
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12-27-2011, 12:13 PM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I would guess that the number is well below 1% of total gun owners. The NRA says that there are firearms in way over 50% of American homes and I doubt that the number of re-loaders is in the 40-50 million range.
The percentage of gun club members that reload would be considerably higher and the percentage of competiton shooters that reloaders would be even higher.
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12-27-2011, 01:36 PM
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Re: whats your opinion?
"Originally Posted by socalfamous87 View Post
out of all the shooters out their how many of them reload? what do you think?" The question is "out of all the shooters" NOT "out of all the owners". There is no doubt in my mind that there is a huge difference between the number of "Owners" vs the number of "Shooters". I will venture a guess that about 30% to 35% of all dedicated shooters also reload!
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12-27-2011, 02:27 PM
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12-27-2011, 06:18 PM
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It absoluety amazes me the number of people that shoot that do not reload. I am a range officer at our club and less than 10% of the people that come to shoot reload. I usually make out like a bandit with spent brass. Recently I picked up about 50 rounds of 300 Weatherby brass and 50 rounds of S&W .500. Have your priced that stuff!! Wow!!!
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12-27-2011, 06:29 PM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I am not optimistic about this...
I knew of only 2 people that did any loading before the Air Force. None while in the Air Force. (Not conducive even in central Montana.) 3 while a Deputy. (Few had any money.) 2 while a City Cop. (Young Cops and old Cops, no time.) 2 while working at my final employment. (Way too much work load. I even had to stop for a while.) 1 of my fellow Masons. (I'm open with my interests, several shooters, only one who loads.) Not a very good track record. I would have to guesstamate less than 1% of the total population and maybe 10% of the regular shooters. Enjoy, OSOK |
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12-27-2011, 08:06 PM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I would have to agree most gun owners do not shoot frequently, maybe 5%. Few regular shooters reload, maybe 10%. So maybe ½ of 1 % of gun owners is a reloader.
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12-27-2011, 08:28 PM
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Re: whats your opinion?
I agree with howlnmad and gdmoody, they ARE both clueless!
 But I'm thinking maybe 15.7% of all shooters. There has to be quite a few because look at all the companies making reloading components and equipment. They're not doing it for fun, but to make money. It's a big business. |
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