Old revolver

[clayton86]

Been tossing around the idea of getting a Schofield. Wish I would just did it before prices got crazy and ammo next to impossible to find. 
 

it’s one the guns I just “want” maybe use it to hunt with if I ever get back into deer hunting but I’ve already got 2 pistols I want to take a deer with just no drive to sit in a stand. 
 

I kinda only get guns that I will use not really a collector of safe queens though I do have a a few but they were hand me downs. That’s where I’m at about the Schofield is will I actually shoot it often. I go to the range every week and shoot my pistols occasionally take a rifle but most my rifles are precision tack drivers and with a 25yard max at the indoor range I tend to just take the pistols. 
 

anyone here have a Schofield or experience with them? If I do get one I’ll get one in 45lc 

[Smells like fish]

I’d love to have some of those old revolvers too! My only single action revolver is a Ruger Blackhawk in .357

I have thought many times of buying a clone of the peacemaker in .45 colt

 

I bit the bullet just prior to the 2008 elections and began accumulating my reloading and casting equipment.

 

I recommend that if you haven’t expanded to this in our hobby that you do so. 
Getting started was very overwhelming 

 

I don’t know your finances but for me I had to begin reloading with a piece at a time. my first purchase was just a Lee turret press. 
 

.45 colt isn’t cheap to shoot unless you cast and reload your own. My .444 and .45/70 in 2008 was $34 per 20 out the door but I was able to reload my own with Hornady bullets less than $8 per 20. I bought up lead and molds and all those things and price drops considerably more.

 

I know 14 years later that prices have went up but welcome to the new normal.

 

I would like see you get that .45 colt and you can load your own .45 colt and .45 schofield to shoot outta the same gun! 
 

[clayton86]

2 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

I’d love to have some of those old revolvers too! My only single action revolver is a Ruger Blackhawk in .357

I have thought many times of buying a clone of the peacemaker in .45 colt

 

I bit the bullet just prior to the 2008 elections and began accumulating my reloading and casting equipment.

 

I recommend that if you haven’t expanded to this in our hobby that you do so. 
Getting started was very overwhelming 

 

I don’t know your finances but for me I had to begin reloading with a piece at a time. my first purchase was just a Lee turret press. 
 

.45 colt isn’t cheap to shoot unless you cast and reload your own. My .444 and .45/70 in 2008 was $34 per 20 out the door but I was able to reload my own with Hornady bullets less than $8 per 20. I bought up lead and molds and all those things and price drops considerably more.

 

I know 14 years later that prices have went up but welcome to the new normal.

 

I would like see you get that .45 colt and you can load your own .45 colt and .45 schofield to shoot outta the same gun! 
 

I do reload currently mostly for my rifles 243,17hornet, 20practical, 308. I do load for my 45acp because ammo for that is next to impossible at times but I had key word HAD 2000 pistol primers but after my last loading day I took a count of what I have left and down to only 150 large pistol and 500 small. All my blazer brass is small primer so I’ll probably start doing them up when I burn through what ive got loaded waiting. 

[Smells like fish]

Sounds good. Stock up on your primers when you can and after you get your .45 look into lead and you’ll be enjoying that Schofield. This new normal if it remains so is gonna be rough on us shooting hobbyists. 

[clayton86]

8 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Sounds good. Stock up on your primers when you can and after you get your .45 look into lead and you’ll be enjoying that Schofield. This new normal if it remains so is gonna be rough on us shooting hobbyists. 

Yeah the one shop gets a shipment every Monday and it goes out Tuesday and is gone usually by end of day with the 2 100pc box limit on primers. Inside scoop told me the days and the 2 times I went they didn’t have any there were none on the truck those weeks. Then this past week I went for something else and asked and they said they normally see some every week but during the two snow storm weeks nothing and that I had missed that weeks stocking. So now I have to buckle down and just go after work on Tuesdays it’s only 15minutes from work but in opposite direction then home. Calling them is always hit or miss it’s usually a quick “nope” or “idk if they were on the truck this week we’re putting stuff out now so maybe” never been a definite “yes we have some” when I worked closer I would swing in on lunch break and get them usually. 
 

I tried this re priming method and I’m at 100% success with it but it’s very very very time consuming and doesn’t seem as clean burning I guess it would be even though same powder(titegroup) would smoke after firing nothing bad just make the lane Smokey at shooting position after each mag. 

[Smells like fish]

The only primers I’ve saw was a couple months ago for $60/1000 and I passed but the way things are looking they are gonna stay high for a while. I did buy powder which was $32 a pound. Way over my norm 

[clayton86]

18 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

The only primers I’ve saw was a couple months ago for $60/1000 and I passed but the way things are looking they are gonna stay high for a while. I did buy powder which was $32 a pound. Way over my norm 

It’s 5.99 a tray of 100 at one shop and 7.99 at another but they never have any other than 209 shotshell or 209ML. Powder is around $40lb don’t look at gunbroker if $60/1000 is to high for ya. When I was working at the one shop had a customer show me his gunbroker listings he was selling his bricks of primers for $500 and he wanted to buy the brick we had for $40 I laughed and declined to sell him what we had just to flip it management stood behind my decision and we put the 2 tray limit in place to keep people from doing that. 
 

I’m good on powder not to worried bout that but if I start doing 45lc or even my 45/70 I’m sure my pistol powders will go quicker but at 4.7gr of tite group my lb of it will last a bit and I think cfe pistol is a little more of a charge but not much I’ve got a lb of that also unopened.