Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles handload vs reload

Picking nits here, but does anyone else get annoyed by the term 'reload'. I handload 95% of the centerfire ammo I shoot. Yes the brass gets reused, but referring to my ammo as reloads always gives me the feeling people view them along the same lines of recycled or reclaimed.

plinking is reloading. Handloading is more along the lines as, what I call, precision loading.

All in how you look at it.

reload

transitive verb

To load again, as a gun.

verb

To load (something) again.

To refresh a copy of a program in memory or of a web page on screen.

handload

[ verb hand-lohd; noun hand-lohd ]SHOW IPA

verb (used with object)

to load (cartridges or other ammunition) by hand.

verb (used without object)

to load ammunition by hand.

noun

a cartridge or other ammunition designed to be loaded by hand.

6 of one, half dozen of the other.

I don't really care what you call it. We all know what guys are talking about when they are brought up. If it annoys you, you get upset too easy.

If reloading is reusing the brass to make new shells what does ridiculous mean?
I'm confused...

LOL, spend more time doing whichever you call it and less time hair splitting, or splitting hairs…whichever you prefer. I never worried what I called it, or what someone else calls it. I’ve used both and never differentiated them in my mind. I just know it saves me money, and gives me satisfaction and pride in crafting my own ammo. I’m sure it’s absolutely deplorable either way. 😎

Doc_Holidude

Reloading or handloading, whichever, as long as you're not asking "what grain bullet heads" to use.

Oh man, I’m in deep dooo dooo! I’ve been known to call a1911’s magazine a “clip”. 😳

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When l call a gunshop near me l have to specify reloading bullets, not just bullets, other wise they assume factory ammunition. 🙄

I usually say handloading, and bullet head is a strange term. I just say bullet.

If it’s new brass, you’re handloading. If it’s old brass, you’re hand reloading.

I've seen "bullet heads" used on this very site.

Makes no difference to me. I call it match ammo :-)

All of mine are match ammo. They match the rifle they go into.

Now that’s splitting hairs. 😁

I have to admit, "reloading" annoys me too. I am "handloading" to a positively silly degree of obsession.
And I have a fairly thick skin.

Cheers,
Rex

I reload spent brass, I sometimes handload each piece of brass individually, weigh the powder charge, weigh each bullets and so on, other times the machine drops the powder not me so that is not really complete handloading, regardless it doesn't bother me which one people use. I believe Elmer Keith called it reloading and that is good enough for me.

Yeah, I've seen "head" used as a term for bullet. It seems mostly prevalent when you hear big-city cops trying to talk about guns like they know something about them. Same with the term "bullet casing" which I saw just last night in a news article about a shooting. Goes right along with the oft seen example of leftist political cartoonists showing a whole dame cartridge flying out of a gun instead of just the bullet.