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Well finally did it...sold all my reloading stuff !! Anyone else shooting factory ?
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<blockquote data-quote="coop2564" data-source="post: 1877551" data-attributes="member: 87214"><p>Many competition shooters are using factory rounds and winning, its becoming more the norm than not. I'm a hunter that shoots med/long range out to 800 yds. I've been reloading since 1990. I do enjoy it most of the time. Working up a load is very time consuming for just fractions of an inch often. I can tell you now most military snipers will tell you, you nor your reloads will shoot .25 moa everyday. Under set conditions for a day you might get the right conditions, but not day in day out. Most are perfectly happy staying inside 1 moa for their purposes. In a way they are hunters too not target shooters, they target shoot to become better hunters. Many do shoot competitions too. Some reload some use factory match. another thing to consider is your gun, a custom deep throat gun will likely never shoot factory as well as reloads designed for that long throat. But many spec guns will shoot premium factory loads so close to reloads that the avg shooter day in day out cant perceive the difference. I can not reload a load yet in my 6.5 CM Bergara HMR that will out shoot Fed premium 135 hybrid hunters, after spending hundreds of dollars on different powders and bullets I gave up, in that gun I use that factory load. But I have a 7 RM that my HL's beat every factory load due to its custom throat. I'll say this too, the Avg reloader today with the Avg equipment sold today will not take the time and precision needed to build a better round than premium factory rds. There are many elite reloaders that do but talking Avg guy reloader, I know because I'm avg guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coop2564, post: 1877551, member: 87214"] Many competition shooters are using factory rounds and winning, its becoming more the norm than not. I'm a hunter that shoots med/long range out to 800 yds. I've been reloading since 1990. I do enjoy it most of the time. Working up a load is very time consuming for just fractions of an inch often. I can tell you now most military snipers will tell you, you nor your reloads will shoot .25 moa everyday. Under set conditions for a day you might get the right conditions, but not day in day out. Most are perfectly happy staying inside 1 moa for their purposes. In a way they are hunters too not target shooters, they target shoot to become better hunters. Many do shoot competitions too. Some reload some use factory match. another thing to consider is your gun, a custom deep throat gun will likely never shoot factory as well as reloads designed for that long throat. But many spec guns will shoot premium factory loads so close to reloads that the avg shooter day in day out cant perceive the difference. I can not reload a load yet in my 6.5 CM Bergara HMR that will out shoot Fed premium 135 hybrid hunters, after spending hundreds of dollars on different powders and bullets I gave up, in that gun I use that factory load. But I have a 7 RM that my HL's beat every factory load due to its custom throat. I'll say this too, the Avg reloader today with the Avg equipment sold today will not take the time and precision needed to build a better round than premium factory rds. There are many elite reloaders that do but talking Avg guy reloader, I know because I'm avg guy. [/QUOTE]
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