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Well finally did it...sold all my reloading stuff !! Anyone else shooting factory ?
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<blockquote data-quote="J E Custom" data-source="post: 1874078" data-attributes="member: 2736"><p>There are many good quality ammo makers to day and if you find one that your rifle likes and is happy with the results, I see nothing wrong with using it. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I will always load my own for many reasons. Price and availability was the main reason I started in the first place back in the sixties. There weren't very many good brands for precision shooting so we had to load our match ammo to be competitive. also not as important but a consideration was the price difference. We could load all types of ammo for less than half the price and it was consistently better.</p><p></p><p>Now days, the price is still better to load custom ammo, rather than buy it and the quality is still better in most cases. (The chances of finding a brand of ammo that will shoot sub 1/4 MOA is all but impossible and very rare). good ammo requires good components, great ammo requires the same but has to be tailored to your chamber and rifle causing many more steps that a factory cannot and will not take.</p><p></p><p>For most factory ammo, 4 or 500 yrds is about there accuracy limit. of course there will always be the exception and with good luck, one may find one that will perform to their requirements for accuracy. Long range hunting has definitely raised the bar on accuracy and loading your own. Nothing has really changed in the difference in loading your own, or buying it. The factory ammo it much better than it used to be, but so is the re loads because of the improvements in dies, procedures, knowledge of the process and what effects things have on quality and a general sense of what it takes to load the very best ammo possible.</p><p></p><p>I am approaching 80 and still load everything for the benefits it gives me. Life can be much simpler by buying factory ammo and I can see and understand the reasons. I just can't see it for me just yet. Besides, I don't want to depend on the factory's for anything. We have witnessed what they can do when they want to raise prices, a shortage happens. Or panic sets in and hording begins.</p><p></p><p>Just my Opinion on factory versus reloads.</p><p></p><p>J E CUSTOM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J E Custom, post: 1874078, member: 2736"] There are many good quality ammo makers to day and if you find one that your rifle likes and is happy with the results, I see nothing wrong with using it. Personally, I will always load my own for many reasons. Price and availability was the main reason I started in the first place back in the sixties. There weren't very many good brands for precision shooting so we had to load our match ammo to be competitive. also not as important but a consideration was the price difference. We could load all types of ammo for less than half the price and it was consistently better. Now days, the price is still better to load custom ammo, rather than buy it and the quality is still better in most cases. (The chances of finding a brand of ammo that will shoot sub 1/4 MOA is all but impossible and very rare). good ammo requires good components, great ammo requires the same but has to be tailored to your chamber and rifle causing many more steps that a factory cannot and will not take. For most factory ammo, 4 or 500 yrds is about there accuracy limit. of course there will always be the exception and with good luck, one may find one that will perform to their requirements for accuracy. Long range hunting has definitely raised the bar on accuracy and loading your own. Nothing has really changed in the difference in loading your own, or buying it. The factory ammo it much better than it used to be, but so is the re loads because of the improvements in dies, procedures, knowledge of the process and what effects things have on quality and a general sense of what it takes to load the very best ammo possible. I am approaching 80 and still load everything for the benefits it gives me. Life can be much simpler by buying factory ammo and I can see and understand the reasons. I just can't see it for me just yet. Besides, I don't want to depend on the factory's for anything. We have witnessed what they can do when they want to raise prices, a shortage happens. Or panic sets in and hording begins. Just my Opinion on factory versus reloads. J E CUSTOM [/QUOTE]
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