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I reload, haven’t fired a factory center fire in 40 years, maybe 45.
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I always bought factory shotgun slugs/sabots. I don't shoot enough shotgun to make it worth the expense to get myself setup to load them.
For centerfires I'll buy some factory to plink and burn up for the brass once in a blue moon if I find a deal, but anything I use to hunt or do any kind of serious shooting is handloaded.
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As a rule I roll my own. Have bought some factory ammo here and there when it was an exceptional buy.
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Loading all my own as far as metallic cartridges
I never got set up for shotshells
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Oh mercy, handloads all the way, for about the last 50 years. I honestly can't remember the last box of factory deer rifle ammo I bought. Heck, half of my hunting during that time period was with cast bullets too, and you surely won't find that stuff on the LGS shelves.
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Handloads since about 1976. At least for rifles, I haven’t hunted with slugs in a long time but those were factory.
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Handloads, always. Heck, I even load steel shot for my shotguns.
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I reload, haven’t fired a factory center fire in 40 years, maybe 45. Hand load for the most part. If I'm not dedicated to a rifle/cartridge enough to hand load for them I'm not dedicated enough to them to waste a day hunting with them .. and it would be WASTE .. that could be SPENT hunting with something I do indeed care about enough to load for. I can't swear to it but as I look back, I can't think of the last deer I killed with factory ammo, it'd have to be over 30 years and maybe over 40. Tom
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I reload, haven’t fired a factory center fire in 40 years, maybe 45. Other than a half a box of 375 H&H I haven't shot a factory CF round since 1991.
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I load for the rifles and shotguns.
I do shoot factory at times just to test back when i worked on rifles.
It's fun when you make your own.
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handload all my centerfire ammo for the family and myself for around 40 years , i load most of my trap and sporting clays ammo .also always built my own arrows for myself and family .
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Factory. Buy/shoot. Sold all my loading equipment and set myself free. I love running a bolt gun and not gaf were the brass goes.
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I hand load everything , always have Cat
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Reload rifle and handgun, buy shot, wads and primers, and a friend loads shot gun for me. My buddy is a sporting clays nut, and is always pumping out shotgun ammo!
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Hand load for all my bolt guns
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Factory.
Im lazy. Ive got all the stuff ( press, dies, primers, powder, brass, bullets) to load me own..
Just havent got around to it.
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I reload all my center fire rifle cartridges now; not shotgun shells and not all handgun cartridges. I learned a few years ago to buy some factory ammo before committing to reloading for a new to me cartridge. I wasted a lot of money getting set up for new guns that I didn’t keep (.500 mag, .300 saum, etc).
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Downsized from a big rambling Victorian house to a much smaller place. I now have problems finding places to neatly store my factory ammo. I’m not sure where I would put the equipment to load my own. Besides I already have too many other projects & pastimes. Factory is more than adequate for my modest needs. Having said that, I think I would enjoy reloading & one of my hunting buddies does have a press.
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