7. It's what I practice with to the tune of 5K to 7K rounds a year and anything else I would use, I would have no idea about how it performs.
Is it that hard to cook up a target load that duplicates the ballistics of your factory carry load?
7. It's what I practice with to the tune of 5K to 7K rounds a year and anything else I would use, I would have no idea about how it performs.
Double naught and Musketeer, you also forgot one other reason to use reloads in your firearm for protection. Because I want to. It's a free country, what's wrong with that reason????
Well, in the case you cited, by insisting they test ammo that matched the headstamp but not the actual reload (Did the guy handload the same projectile as factory ammo? If not, there was a ROYAL evidentiary screw-up) they came to the conclusion that the shooter was farther away than he said he was, and I gather his presumed lack of proximity to the victim was a key part in the prosecution.Mas Ayoob said:Hank B: Not sure what you're getting at. The point at issue is courts refusing to accept the user's account of what was in the handload when it becomes critical to determine distance based on GSR evidence.
Double naught and Musketeer, you also forgot one other reason to use reloads in your firearm for protection. Because I want to. It's a free country, what's wrong with that reason????
(H4) Is a person who reloads ammunition required to be licensed as a manufacturer? [Back]
Yes, if the person engages in the business of selling or distributing reloads for the purpose of livelihood and profit. No, if the person reloads only for personal use.
[18 U.S.C. 922(a) (i) and 923(a), 27 CFR 478.41]
Testing was done with factory Federal +P from the crime lab's exemplar testing inventory, solely on the assumption that what was on the headstamp equaled what was in the gun. Court approved, and forbade testing of the handloads.
But when some of those people are going to be deciding if I go to jail or go home, I do begin to care. And it's certainly been demonstrated over and over again at trials that how members of a jury perceive witnesses and the defendant can have a lot to do with the outcome. Remember that some members of your jury might have doubts about whether private citizens should even have guns.