Does anyone reload for anybody else? If so how do you go about charging? The guys at work are just about driving me nuts. I fugured to due just a couple to keep in practice and now it is snowballing. Any ideas would be great.

If they want you to reload for them because they think they'll save money, forget it. Your time is worth far more than the cost savings in a box of factory ammo.

On the other hand, if their motivation is better ammunition, forget it. To do justice to a given rifle and load, it takes substantial load development, and again, your time just can't be paid for in practical terms to do this kind of time-intensive work.

If they're after premium bullets, then those are available in factory loads now. If they're after higher velocity, then that's available in factory loads, too.

And this advice is coming from someone who would refuse to hunt if he had to hunt with factory loads. It's just that handloading is about finely tailoring a load to a particular gun, not just "remanufacturing" spent cases.

If you want to cobble together some middle-of-the-road ammunition for some friends just because you enjoy doing it, then that's fine. Charge them whatever friendship will bear (and assume that something, someday, will go somehow wrong and that you will be blamed for it, either emotionally or legally).

I have helped guys at work out in the ammo area at times but never loaded for them. If they are willing to buy all the components (from me @ my cost or the local sporting good store) and come over they can use my equipment and I am more then happy to assist, but they have to load there own.

I don't load for others or shoot someone elses reloads.

I have however been know to take a rifle or two home to clean for "friends". I just can't stand to see any rifle neglected/abused. :-)

Good Hunting
Jeff in ND

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Ricochet,
I had the very same problem, I load for quite a few people around here and most of the time they want the cheapest bullet available. What I started charging was $.02 per grain of powder it takes. So a cartridge using 50 grains of any powder I get one dollar per round. If I use a premium bullet, I get more. I really only make enough to get all my components paid for. Like Stonecreek said, you could never charge for your time.

Sooner

I've sold cast bullets to friends, and I'm probably lucky to get minimum wage for my time, but a couple bucks here and there makes for a # of powder hear, and a case of primers there.

As far as selling loaded ammo, I just won't do it, the liability thing is just too big. If your buddies want to shoot more, then introduce them to reloading, and run them through the ropes. If they aren't willing to put in the time and $ to do it themselves, why should you subsidize them with your time and equipment?

Get a Shotgun News and find some surplus ammo at good prices. Get them to buy their own. The risk of being sued when somone has an accident is too great. It won't matter if it was your fault or not. You can't load for the price of some of the bulk surplus out there.

Don't forget to get your federal manufacturer's license!

I tried it and without actualy having there firearm it is hard to get reloads much better than factory and I was always a little nervous about the whole thing so I came up with a better idea. Anytime someone wants me to load em up some ammo I invite them and there rifle down to do it thereself with my guidance ofcoarse. This way we can seat the bullets just off the lands, size them for there rifle and shoot a few of there handloads out back to see what combo works best. Once they see theres no magic or rocket science involved I have pretty much got them hooked. (4 down 245million to go

I agree about the liability thing, I only rarely fix a car as a favor anymore and then only after a bit of communication as it gets tiring being blamed for the headlight that burns out a day or two after you changed the windsheld wipers....

I do like helping people work up loads, and also if they are a responsible friend don't mind them using my equipment, even on a regular basis.