Hooterman said:
Just my preference but, I would trust any Russian Factory Ammo in my guns before I ever would trust a reload. More than half the world uses European Steel Cased ammo.
I have seen more gun kabooms caused by reloaded brass ammo than steel cased Russian ammo. It is my believe and opinion that brass was only intended to be used once and then thrown away.
Reloading just pushes the metal integrity of brass beyond it limitations. Brass stretches when encapsulating an explosion such as gun powder. This is just my line of logic and it has been correct for me for a long time now.
Those are the worst arguments I have ever seen for "factory vs handloads".
All of the statements add up to one conclusion:
You have absolutely no idea what is going on in the chamber of your firearms. You don't even understand the basics of metallic cartridges, let alone enough to argue whether handloads are safer than factory ammo.
The main purpose of a brass cartridge case, is so it can expand and tightly seal the chamber during firing. Steel cases don't do that as well (which causes many side-effects that are, apparently, too advanced for this thread).
This is just my line of logic and it has been correct for me for a long time now.
Ignorance is the same reason you may* have seen a couple of kabooms (*this is the internet, after all... Your post count of 3 doesn't bode well for your claims.)
Like you, beginner reloaders often don't bother to actually learn the basics. Rather than reading the warnings, cautions, and general principles of reloading; they just jump in, and start pouring powder into cases. Because they didn't bother to read... they created a 92,000 psi load for a rifle designed to handle 52,000.
Bad reloaders make bad handloads.
Bad factories make bad factory ammo.
In most firearms, steel cases will work satisfactorily; but brass will always work better (even if an ignorant shooter doesn't know how to tell the difference).