How do you make ammo shells for 40cal pistol its to expensive to buy?
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nIf you forget about the start-up costs, reloading your ammunition can be very cost-effective. As an example, I cast my own .38 bullets and load my .38 Specials, and I can do a box of 50 .38 Special target loads for about $0.55! \n\nI reload the following cartridges:\n\nRifle: .223 Remington, .25-35 Winchester, .270 Winchester, .308 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield, 8mm Mauser, .40-65 Winchester, and .45-70 Springfield.\n\nPistol: .38 Special, .357 Magnum, 9mm Luger, .41 Magnum, and .45 ACP.\n\nShotgun: 12 Guage.\n\nYou will need a reloading press. Presses for rifle and pistol cartridges are the same, but you need a special press for shotgun shells. You will need a set of reloading dies for each caliber/cartridge you wish to reload. You will also need a scale to measure your powder charges, and a tumbler for cleaning the cartridge cases. But most important, you will require a good reloading manual with all of the technical information and powder recipes for the ammunition you reload. Expect to spend about $500 for your equipment, and it will be a good investment as long as you do not purchase crap!\n\nTo reload your .40 S&W shells, you will probably reload FMJ bullets, and this will increase the cost of your reloading venture ... figure about $0.15 to $0.20 per bullet. If you can find a lead bullet you like and that shoots well in your pistol, you can lower the per bullet cost to about $0.06 each. Your primer will cost about $0.018 each, and depending on the powder you use, your powder charge will be about $0.08 per shell. So ... your total cost per cartridge to reload will run about $0.16 to $0.30 per shell. Factory loaded ammo will cost you about $0.30 per shell, or more. \n\nReloading can be time intensive, and it can be cost effective, after a significant set-up cost. If you plan on shooting alot, reloading can make shooting affordable for you. I shoot about 1400 rifle rounds a year. In a good year, I will also shoot about 1000 shotgun shells and 2000-3000 pistol shells a year. Reloading makes all this shooting possible. But you must exercise care.
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try www.wildimports.com   They have what you are looking for.  They cost a few bucks, but are actually quite good prices for the quality you are getting.  I LOVE cannons!  Get one!  Try the mountain howizter.....\n\nIf you don't want to spend quite that much money, you can always find a Coehorn mortar.  They make them in golf ball size or beer can size.  Put a charge of black powder in one of those babies and it'll rattle the mountainside!  They are fun too and you can get a decent quality mortar for a few hundred bucks.
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Bound & Bound's hubby here:\n\nYou can not really "recycle" spent shotgun shells ... j-yards don't buy them. However, you can do a couple of things.\n\nFirst, if your children would like to make their hike profitable ... bag them in bags of 25 or 100 (identical guage [marked on the brass headstamp], make, color hull). They could list them for a quarter a bag [for starts] on e-Bay. \n\nSecond, you could list them on your local Freecycle ... as give aways. Freecycle is a way to recycle things that would otherwise wind up just taking up space in a land fill. If you find someone willing to take them, these shells can be reloaded a number of times.\n\nGood luck!
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Do you mean NATO size 7.62mm? If so, there are hundreds of private contractors around the world that produce it. One I know that is close to me is the Olin Corp. which is in Chattanooga, TN. They make all types of ammo for the military up to 76mm. Some of the best makers are in Germany that produce the 120mm rounds for the tanks of NATO.
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If you are allowed to shoot varmints with a semi-auto the Ruger 10/22 magnum is a good choice. A box of 50 shells is $6-$8.\nThe magnum has more range than the .22lr and is a lot cheaper to shoot than center fire ammo.\nWith practice shots to 150 yards and farther are possible. On the 22lr shots to 100 yards are about it's limit.\n10/22's are easy to upgrade with heavy barrels, new trigger groups and fancy stocks.
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i use CB caps for what you are doing.  it's a regular long rifle case with just primer and a smaller bullet.  CCI makes them, and i bought a brick from cabelas.  it shoots a 20 grain bullet at about 900 fps, no noise either.  i can hear the hammer fall.
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.40S&W uses a Small Pistol Primer. Large won't fit; anyone who has read a reloading manual or actually seen a .40 primer pocket would know that.
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I do not think there is a shortage of the steel case 7.62 X 39 Wolfe ammo.  Local gun stores near me are actually putting it on sale to try and move some of the stock piles they have.   If you mean the brass case version i have noticed that very few stores are stocking it.   I believe they are calling it the gold line.   For the price i think steel case in this caliber is better deal.   As far as price increases on ammo,  all ammo is suppose to take price jumps this yr. so maybe your gun shops are just trying to capitalize on this now.
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cost? well not much if you just do it yourself with a staple gun\npain? probably quite a bit
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errr, grind metals to a fine powder and mix them together and press them and you can get alloys physically impossible to make by forging.\n\numm, grind metal very fine so the oxidise and use them to make metal fires, such as "thermalite" for welding traintracks.
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Mostly sodium nitrate about 70%, about 20% sulfur, and 10% carbon.\n\nThe trick to making good black powder is that you have to have it all finely powdered, mixed well with water, then you dry it out in an oven (Yes, in an oven!)  If you don't have your oven temperature just right, you can blow yourself up!!!!  NOT to be tried at home!\n\nYou can buy a can of black powder for about $25 at a gun store.  Much safer and cheaper!\n\nWhy do you need black powder?  I hope you're not planning to blow anything up!\n\nI'm a chemist and I've tried making small (less than 1 g) quantities of black powder and it's never been very good... it just sort of sparkles and fizzles, doesn't really blow up.  So, if I were you, I'd buy the stuff at a gun store.\n\nI really hope you're an antique gun enthusiast and NOT a psycho/terrorist.\n\nTake care!\nDavid
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save your cash, get a T&#92;C Encore in 300 mag and you will be set for  anything in N america and some african game get a gun that is gonna last and some thing that you can hand down rem 700 are cheaply built and not very tough at least mine wasnt
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You can sell BB Gun parts on EBay.   Just take the stock or other major part(s) off and sell them seperatly as Parts.  Its best to remove a part or two that allows it to actuall shot and so it looks none funtional.
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Wolf sells surplus 223 rds but I would recommend against them. I used them in my bushmaster and it was freaking hard to clean. Also, the gun started jamming after about 40 rounds. They have a lacquer coating on them that gets hot and gooey in the barrel.
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Holy jesus no! 357sig is pretty much a .40 caliber casing necked down to fit a .357 round, similarly the .400 corbon is a .45 casing necked down to fire a .40 caliber round
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well...im not going to tell you how to make gunpowder, but a pretty fun home made 'bomb' can be made out of a tennis ball, some match sticks and lots of duck tape. It takes ages but;\n\nchop the tips off matches (wear gloves)\ncut a small slit in a tennis ball and stuff the matchheads in, as many as you can. Wrap the whole thing in duck tape so its really airtight.\n\nNow, to set the thing off, just throw it really hard at a wall or something (for gods sake dont throw it at someone) The matchheads will ignite and the pressure build up will cause the tennis ball to rupture giving a nice satisfying bang. \n\ngood thing about this is you cant commit a terrorist outrage with it, and its not powerful enough to really harm anybody - but still, be careful when you use it, dont dick around because if it goes off in your hand it could do some damage - the noise is really loud too - you dont want to go deaf. Bottom line is - the thing might take up to a minute to actually blow up (usually takes a few seconds but still), dont throw it at something then wander over and pick it up again!!\n\nhave fun and dont kill anybody\nhope this helps
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USE SLUGS NOT BUCK SHOT!!!!!