I wonder if we would have books full of pet loads, and load manuals with "accuracy loads" if the old gun gurus had just said screw it, it's just a hunting load.

I come from a time and place apparently forever lost to this world where reloading your hunting ammo saved you money and let you shoot more.

That's gone, and the justification has to change. So I'll justify it with accuracy and pride in crafting good ammo for good rifles, as that's pretty much all that's left anymore.

Some things matter, and some things don't, but it's sure entertaining to watch folks argue over it all.


I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine