Well whatya think??

DYNOMIKE · June 28, 2012, 19:04

As many of you know we opened in Nov. and for much of that time I've wanted to have a RELOADING section in the store.
It's always so friggin busy I've had a tough time putting it all together and kinda presenting the idea to the head Cheese...

Well a month or so ago I got the thumbs up and was given charge of the entire thing.. With that I have pretty much free reign to order what ever I want (think we can sell) and promptly put together several orders..
While not done just yet I've made some significant progress, here is where I'm at as of today.....

Drawing upon my own experience and considering current trends I've got a LOT of stuff but of course still want/need more. I know I'm gonna need some more die sets, shell holders and such as well as priming tools (on back order) but I'm pleased with the selection so far..

I'd be interested in things you guy's think I should be sure to have and would appreciate your comments..

TerryN · June 28, 2012, 19:17

Looks like a good beginning! Now, if you can get the customers to buy the stuff!

STGThndr · June 28, 2012, 22:48

Nice, and better selection than a lot of places!

ctymountie · June 29, 2012, 00:39

Where is this in FL and the name of the store?

DYNOMIKE · June 29, 2012, 07:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by TerryN

Looks like a good beginning! Now, if you can get the customers to buy the stuff!

I've been working on this for a couple weeks now and finally got the large bulk order delivered and inventoried. So far peeps seem very pleased, we've sold several K Primers, a good bit of 1lb jugs and a couple 8 lb jugs of powder.

Quote:

Originally Posted by STGThndr

Nice, and better selection than a lot of places!

More inbound too..
Even so it'll never be MIDWAY or WIDENER'S but if I can keep this stuff on hand and cover peeps basic needs I think it will be very good..

Quote:

Originally Posted by ctymountie

Where is this in FL and the name of the store?

Jensen Beach ~ LOTUS GUNWORKS of S. FL.

**skeeterbay** · June 29, 2012, 07:40

The dealers up this way don't carry reloading supplies much anymore. They claim everyone buys what they need from the net. Which is true in my case. I do buy my stuff in larger quantities off the net. However it sure is nice to be able to run down somewhere and pick up a can of 2400 because you ran out half way to being done. I can't count how many times I thought I had an extra lbs of a particular powder only to find I didn't. Then it's a week just to get an order here and I have to order a lot to make it pay for itself.

hawk962 · June 29, 2012, 07:40

Looks great!
Maybe a supply of replacement tumbler media, spare decapping pins, lyman hand primer tool, bags of shot for the clays/bird gang.

DYNOMIKE · June 29, 2012, 08:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawk962

Looks great!
Maybe a supply of replacement tumbler media, spare decapping pins, lyman hand primer tool, bags of shot for the clays/bird gang.

All good ideas..
Shot is on the btm row, just 7-1/2's & 8's though...
Media as well as my hand prime tools where ordered but ended up on my back order list..
De-cap pins, most excellent idea and I'll be sure to get some..

Tuscan Raider · June 29, 2012, 10:05

You'd be doing a great service to your customers by getting rid of that One Shot crap.

Looks good. How much for the Giraud?

NHBandit · June 29, 2012, 13:57

Is that the shop you work at or a pic of your basement ?

richbug · June 30, 2012, 14:10

Might want to check on the legality of storing that much powder outside of a
proper cabinet. Fire Marshal probably wouldn't like it.

jefferyc22 · June 30, 2012, 20:14

Cast handgun bullets maybe?

**K. Funk** · June 30, 2012, 21:21

Looks like VP is right around the corner for you. My M in L bought a condo near Siesta Key. How far a drive? I see a trip in my future. Good work!!

krf

DYNOMIKE · June 30, 2012, 21:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuscan Raider

You'd be doing a great service to your customers by getting rid of that One Shot crap.

Looks good. How much for the Giraud?

While I don't use it now I have and it worked fine for me..
Giraud is $600.00 and change IIRC with two cutters and case holders..

Quote:

Originally Posted by NHBandit

Is that the shop you work at or a pic of your basement ?

LOL!!
No basement here but It does look kina familiar..

Quote:

Originally Posted by richbug

Might want to check on the legality of storing that much powder outside of a
proper cabinet. Fire Marshal probably wouldn't like it.

Never seen powder displayed in a cabinet anywhere else?
Might need to look into that...

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefferyc22

Cast handgun bullets maybe?

Gotta check on that, need to go direct with someone for the best deals.
With BULL-X LONG gone what's everyone using these days?

Quote:

Originally Posted by K. Funk

Looks like VP is right around the corner for you. My M in L bought a condo near Siesta Key. How far a drive? I see a trip in my future. Good work!!

krf

LOL, THANKS!! Sold quite a bit yesterday and today, gotta get more 1lb VARGET already..
Upper Keys are prob 2 1/2 hrs. from me and your welcome anytime..

jerrymrc · July 01, 2012, 12:53

Quote:

Gotta check on that, need to go direct with someone for the best deals.
With BULL-X LONG gone what's everyone using these days?

Lasercast.

**Seaweed** · July 01, 2012, 13:31

Have you done any special advertising to get yourself on the map?

**MAINER** · July 01, 2012, 17:18

Nice looking set up, better than most of the ones I've seen.

I think you need a good single stage press in stock, a Rockchucker or Hornady would do nicely.
If you got one already, I missed it.

Unusual, to me at least, to see Wilson case gauges in a store. I always get a blank stare from the store clerk and end up ordering the thing on-line.

Steve in SC · July 01, 2012, 20:53

I'm sure your prices are competitive. Please keep them that way.

That is one beautiful section of counter space! I wish our local place looked that good!!

DYNOMIKE · July 02, 2012, 07:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by jerrymrc

Lasercast.

Thank you....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seaweed

Have you done any special advertising to get yourself on the map?

We're on the map as far as the shop goes and have begun E-mail notifications as of Sat.. We use E-mail lists (customers sign up at the store we don't buy lists) to notify customers of sales and store updates. It has proven very effective, we also do radio and local retail papers..

Quote:

Originally Posted by MAINER

Nice looking set up, better than most of the ones I've seen.

I think you need a good single stage press in stock, a Rockchucker or Hornady would do nicely.
If you got one already, I missed it.

Unusual, to me at least, to see Wilson case gauges in a store. I always get a blank stare from the store clerk and end up ordering the thing on-line.

I have TWO RCBS Rockchucker "kits" on the shelf, as well as TWO DILLON Square deal presses (one in 9mm, the other .45acp), one HORNADY S/Stage Press, as well as an M.E.C. for 12ga., all this stuff is just out of the PIC to the left..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve in SC

I'm sure your prices are competitive. Please keep them that way.

That is one beautiful section of counter space! I wish our local place looked that good!!

Thanks..
YES, trying to be very competitive yet still make a fair profit. The BIG thing here is know one carries this stuff anywhere around us. Best place for powder is at the Funshow in WPB which for anyone in this area is a 45 min drive South, plus your entry fee to the show and a half days (total) of dicking around.. I'll never be Wideners or Graf & Son but if I can keep a respectable inventory I think it will do pretty well..

richbug · July 02, 2012, 09:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by DYNOMIKE

Never seen powder displayed in a cabinet anywhere else?
Might need to look into that...

SAAMI pamphlet, has Their recs and fire code.

http://www.saami.org/specifications_...ess_Powder.pdf

CTW · July 02, 2012, 14:23

Mike that is truly beautiful. If some of the local shops by me had that kind of selection I would not have to visit gun shows. That is the only reason I go to them these days. I see you are very close to the turnpike. I will make it a note to stop there next time I head to south Fl to visit my floks. I have been using space coast bullets for my cast bullets. They are a florida outfit. Chris
http://www.spacecoastbullets.com/

evan price · July 03, 2012, 05:03

Missouri Bullet Co. for cast boolits.

Maybe some plastic ammo boxes, like MTM caseguard type boxes.

Maybe try to find someone to help you with bulk common 1X fired range brass, polished up and bagged for resale.

I suggest getting the Black Hills Ammo component catalog, they have one specially for '06 FFLs and one for dealers.

bill3542 · July 03, 2012, 05:21

try and listen to your customer wants. i have 2 local shops around here, one is good to deal with and handles such items as 8mm brass and bullets while the other is almost worthless...( if its not in stock i won't order for you ) even if you want to pay up front.

FAL GRUNT · July 03, 2012, 13:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by richbug

SAAMI pamphlet, has Their recs and fire code.

http://www.saami.org/specifications_...ess_Powder.pdf

Huh, that is interesting. I have never been to a store that does NOT have their powder on the shelf. Usually right next to the primers....

Mike,

Looks great! Wish anything in the area had a selection like that. We have one big store about 45 min away but their prices are OUTRAGEOUS unless you want onsie twosie type stuff.

Give me a ring if you ever wind up with work you need done. You know how to get ahold of me!

jugrunner · July 15, 2012, 12:26

schweet ... !!! ... good job ... !!!

June 28, 2012, 19:04	#1
DYNOMIKE Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 11982 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: FLORIDA Posts: 13,958	Well whatya think?? As many of you know we opened in Nov. and for much of that time I've wanted to have a RELOADING section in the store. It's always so friggin busy I've had a tough time putting it all together and kinda presenting the idea to the head Cheese... Well a month or so ago I got the thumbs up and was given charge of the entire thing.. With that I have pretty much free reign to order what ever I want (think we can sell) and promptly put together several orders.. While not done just yet I've made some significant progress, here is where I'm at as of today..... Drawing upon my own experience and considering current trends I've got a LOT of stuff but of course still want/need more. I know I'm gonna need some more die sets, shell holders and such as well as priming tools (on back order) but I'm pleased with the selection so far.. I'd be interested in things you guy's think I should be sure to have and would appreciate your comments.. __________________ "If your Gonna DIE, DIE Standing UP"!! The WOLVERINES.......

June 28, 2012, 19:17	#2
TerryN Registered FALaholic #: 55 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Yuma, AZ Posts: 1,564	Looks like a good beginning! Now, if you can get the customers to buy the stuff! __________________ Sic Semper Tyrannis! Molon Labe!

June 28, 2012, 22:48	#3
STGThndr Registered FALaholic #: 14583 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Southern Colorado mtns and desert Posts: 3,409	Nice, and better selection than a lot of places! __________________ Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B Yeats

June 29, 2012, 00:39	#4
ctymountie Registered FALaholic #: 23255 Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 17	where? Where is this in FL and the name of the store?

June 29, 2012, 07:40	#6
skeeterbay Veteran Member Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 20461 Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,772	The dealers up this way don't carry reloading supplies much anymore. They claim everyone buys what they need from the net. Which is true in my case. I do buy my stuff in larger quantities off the net. However it sure is nice to be able to run down somewhere and pick up a can of 2400 because you ran out half way to being done. I can't count how many times I thought I had an extra lbs of a particular powder only to find I didn't. Then it's a week just to get an order here and I have to order a lot to make it pay for itself. __________________ 'S Rioghal 'Mo Dhream Ard Choille!

June 29, 2012, 07:40	#7
hawk962 Registered FALaholic #: 9621 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 925	Looks great! Maybe a supply of replacement tumbler media, spare decapping pins, lyman hand primer tool, bags of shot for the clays/bird gang.

June 29, 2012, 10:05	#9
Tuscan Raider Registered FALaholic #: 19668 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 2,938	You'd be doing a great service to your customers by getting rid of that One Shot crap. Looks good. How much for the Giraud? __________________ "An eye for an eye makes us all blind." Ghandi "We, here in America, hold in our hands the hopes of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men." Theodore Roosevelt Address at Carnegie Hall March 30, 1912

June 29, 2012, 13:57	#10
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June 30, 2012, 14:10	#11
richbug Registered FALaholic #: 10484 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Western PA Posts: 3,759	Might want to check on the legality of storing that much powder outside of a proper cabinet. Fire Marshal probably wouldn't like it.

June 30, 2012, 20:14	#12
jefferyc22 Banned FALaholic #: 18245 Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: PNW Posts: 3,447	Cast handgun bullets maybe?

June 30, 2012, 21:21	#13
K. Funk Real Life Metallurgist Gold Contributor FALaholic #: 38 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Myerstown, PA Posts: 3,939	Looks like VP is right around the corner for you. My M in L bought a condo near Siesta Key. How far a drive? I see a trip in my future. Good work!! krf __________________ The Mason-Dixon FAL Association wants YOU!! Ask me for details. You never know what's going on inside the mind of a crazy man!! Check out username kandainv on Gunbroker; always some neat stuff!! FYB!!!!

July 01, 2012, 13:31	#16
Seaweed Veteran Member Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 2736 Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Newport, OR Posts: 1,280	Have you done any special advertising to get yourself on the map?

July 01, 2012, 17:18	#17
MAINER Old Fart Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 18465 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Maine Posts: 6,278	Nice looking set up, better than most of the ones I've seen. I think you need a good single stage press in stock, a Rockchucker or Hornady would do nicely. If you got one already, I missed it. Unusual, to me at least, to see Wilson case gauges in a store. I always get a blank stare from the store clerk and end up ordering the thing on-line. __________________ Joe Biden for President.

July 01, 2012, 20:53	#18
Steve in SC Registered FALaholic #: 17876 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 331	I'm sure your prices are competitive. Please keep them that way. That is one beautiful section of counter space! I wish our local place looked that good!! __________________ Steve in SC "Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready." 13 May 1903 Theodore Roosevelt http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member976.png

July 02, 2012, 14:23	#21
CTW Registered Contributor FALaholic #: 41894 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 1,559	Mike that is truly beautiful. If some of the local shops by me had that kind of selection I would not have to visit gun shows. That is the only reason I go to them these days. I see you are very close to the turnpike. I will make it a note to stop there next time I head to south Fl to visit my floks. I have been using space coast bullets for my cast bullets. They are a florida outfit. Chris http://www.spacecoastbullets.com/

July 03, 2012, 05:03	#22
evan price Registered FALaholic #: 20480 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: THE source for Ohio CCW => http://ohioccwforums.org/ Posts: 2,122	Missouri Bullet Co. for cast boolits. Maybe some plastic ammo boxes, like MTM caseguard type boxes. Maybe try to find someone to help you with bulk common 1X fired range brass, polished up and bagged for resale. I suggest getting the Black Hills Ammo component catalog, they have one specially for '06 FFLs and one for dealers. __________________ http://www.ohioccwforums.org/ Ohio's best CCW resource!

July 03, 2012, 05:21	#23
bill3542 Registered FALaholic #: 5675 Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indiana Co.PA Posts: 1,715	try and listen to your customer wants. i have 2 local shops around here, one is good to deal with and handles such items as 8mm brass and bullets while the other is almost worthless...( if its not in stock i won't order for you ) even if you want to pay up front. __________________ BILL H

July 15, 2012, 12:26	#25
jugrunner Registered FALaholic #: 19911 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Alabama Posts: 4,359	schweet ... !!! ... good job ... !!! __________________ ... ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ ... _____________________________________________ "Remember man as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you shall be. Prepare for death and follow me." _____________________________________________ one of the proud "unwashed" ...

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