First, I am not above cleaning up range brass, and either loading it, or scrapping it. If it cleans up, passes my inspection, and is a cartridge I load, it gets loaded. Range brass, for me is for plinking loads, or competition pistol loads, on lost brass ranges.
The only factory ammo I buy is rimfire, and SD pistol loads, to give lawyers one less issue to squawk about, in a potential trial, if I find myself in a self defense situation. I also buy some factory shotgun ammo, to freshen up my hull supply occasionally. But mostly I hand load for my firearms.
As for young people getting into hand loading, my sons keep threatening to hang out in my loading room, to do some learning how to load, for the day I stop pulling on loading press handles, but somehow they never find time for that. My youngest son, who is the most interested, lives in Texas, and my loading room is in Wisconsin...Kind of a long drive to hand load a few batches of ammo for his rifles and pistol. So my thoughts on young people getting into hand loading is more about time. The new digital world has many distractions for young people. Me, I don't do social media, and most often I have the phone on ignore. Actually I can't take the phone into my loading room. The stupid thing drives my Denver Instruments scale crazy with all the cell phone radiation.
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