I know Craig pretty well, and at one point during a conversation years ago somebody else mentioned handloading. Craig laughed and said, "What's that?"
I know he does handload some, but because he traveled so much to hunt for many years he didn't have time to do it much, one reason he used either factory ammo, or handloads somebody else put together.
While I traveled to hunt quite a bit for a number of years, it wasn't nearly as much as Craig--you have to travel a LOT to win the Weatherby Award! In fact, he also did a lot of his writing on long airplane flights.
These days in semi-retirement I don't handload nearly as much, partly because I don't have to, and partly because most of my "hunting" involves Richardson's ground squirrels. Which is why we keep plenty of .17 HMR ammo on hand....
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