I agree with you completely, we worry about all those little details that the ordinary hunter could care less about. The good thing in my case is that my hunting chums will bring their rifles to me to see if I can adjust or set in their scopes and come up with a load that will shoot best. When they do this I get to play with a new rifle, perhaps a new chambering, new loads etc. I will gladly do this if they will leave me alone until I have the task accomplished, or not. You would be amused with some of the setups I have seen. ----- When I play with my own rifles it may take me months to arrive at that load-bullet-powder combo that suits me. This is a labor of love for me and I do it at least three days a week at my private range. Happiness if loading the night before, shooting the new load with cronograph, charting the results, placing the load in perspective with others, arriving at the final load just in time for that Elk hunt or whatever hunting trip the year brings. ----- Another thing about us reloading weirdos is we can transport outselfs into the field for that perfect hunt each and every time we set down to the reloading bench to start a project. Keep up this weird passtime, maybe someone following us will carry on with our passion. Good reloading.

Steve,

Imagine being a reloading tool manufacturer and having the chamber drawings as well. Not only are there wide tolerances but the cases must be on the minus side and neither drawings are necessarily met by manufacturing either!

I go thru a lot of steps in handloading ammo. It takes me so long that I can only make about 10-20 rounds a day. Some of the time is spent on that particular gun as well.

When I have a gun that's shooting really well I might bring it to the range and only fire one or two shots from it. I wonder what the guys do who buy perfect custom guns? They must be out hunting or cutting the grass?

Reloading is a hobby and as such it is different to the individuals participating as their personalities. It's different for everyone. Being a hobby you get out of it what you put into to it.

Is much of what we do necessary to fire one shot to harvest one deer? No! But do we derive pleasure and satisfaction from making a Wally World rifle shoot better than it did when it came off the shelf? Yep.

Like anything else, you get out of it what you put into it. I'm one of the super anal types. I know full well what I do isn't essential. After all I reloaded and filled my freezer for years before I realized I could improve accuracy, even though I was quite successful with just slapping any old primer in a case, seating the bullets that were the cheapest (that was the criteria in those days!) and if it hit the black on a 200 yard target set at 100 yards, I went hunting. I don't even recall checking trim length!

Now I derive more pleasure out of knowing each cartridge is as perfect as I can make it. Does it truly make a difference? I don't know, but I think it might. Does it give me pleasure and satisfaction? Definitely, and that is what a hobby is supposed to do and that's why I do it.

Laugh Out Loud

Yeah, but their bar-bill is a lot higher than mine..... cause I never have time.... LOL, Dutch.

Perfection is the enemy of good enough. The dividend of the perfect state of mind is negative - what you have to shell out for therapy!
By the way what does LOL mean?