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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
You can only imagine how much money I've spent on ammunition in the last 40 years... 
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Ditto Jefe! That's why I got into reloading when I lived in B.C. I had a pretty substantial firearms collection...about 80 firearms of all types and all were shooters except my Bren Mk1. I had dies for all the cartridges and a reloading press for each of rifle, pistol, and shotgun cartridges. I was the Vice-president of the Port Coquitlam and District Hunting and Fishing club for a time so had unlimited access to all the ranges, even when the local S.W.A.T. teams were practicing. I always got an invite to fire their weapons, mostly MP 5s and Car 15s but best of all I could recover all the once fired brass. I had more .38 Special, 9mm, .40 S.&.W., 10mm, .45 ACP, 5.56, and 7.62 brass than 1 man could reload in a lifetime, although I did take a good stab at it. I warned my neighbours that if my garage ever caught on fire that they run as far and fast as possible as I always had at least 10,000 loaded rounds, 50lbs. of black and smokeless powder and several thousand primers stored there at any one time! Aaahhhh! I love the smell of Nitrocellulose and Lead Styphnate in the morning!
I remember hearing of people in B.C. buying cheap Ishapore 1A1's (FAL knock-offs) for only $169.99 and taking a couple of thousand rounds of 7.62 Nato to a friend's cabin in Canim Lake where they would convert the rifles temporarily to full-auto and then race each other to see who could chop down a Pine tree first. Silly buggers, bet they went through a lot of ammo!