Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do you shoot other people's reloads?

Have.

My neighbor, I would shoot his like mine.
Even though I have seen him blow several cases.
Glock 27, mag would blow out on the ground, no damage.
Figured it out, and he ditched 700+ rounds likely to pop
at the smiley.

I laugh at everyone so certain theirs is absolutely, positively,
beyond any shadow, perfect.

[bleep] does, can, and will, happen.
But, I feel mine are less likely to blow than some one else's.
But complacency...


Good friend is meticulous, has loaded for 40 years and for a lot
of people.

Had a powder mistake and ruined to rifles for other guys.

I've purchased a few rounds from commercial reloaders with established business at gun shows but otherwise, no. I pick up reloads at estate sales and garage sales. I've pulled a few loads and weighed the powder and bullet weight.....more powder than any published source, any powder type for that bullet weight. Cannot trust handwritten label info on reload boxes. Perhaps ammo was moved from box to box. Maybe the reloader was distracted or had dementia.
Regardless, reloads by other people are pulled for the metal components and the powder fertilizes the garden.

I'll shoot mine, my son's (that I taught and he is meticulous) and from the guy who taught me, who is the most anal and knowledgeable reloader that I know. From anyone else I pull the bullet and use components.

Depends on who loaded them.

Generally i just pull the ones that folks give me.

Seems safer that way.

Nope and I only trust my own out of a lack of other options.

No.

Not nohow