Finally harvested an animal with a reload!!!
03-27-2005, 08:18 AM
#21
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Western up state NY in the USA
Posts: 259
RE: Finally harvested an animal with a reload!!!
ORIGINAL: mossy33oak
yeah its kinda funny, 2 years ago, I had tons of factory ammunition for all of my guns. Now its almost completely gone, and I am forcing myself to come up with good shooting loads instead of depending on factory stuff. My latest debate has been for 30-30. Just cant bring myself to reload for them (I have 3) when you can get them from Walmart for like $8 a box!??
yeah its kinda funny, 2 years ago, I had tons of factory ammunition for all of my guns. Now its almost completely gone, and I am forcing myself to come up with good shooting loads instead of depending on factory stuff. My latest debate has been for 30-30. Just cant bring myself to reload for them (I have 3) when you can get them from Walmart for like $8 a box!??
BUT I reload for the fun of it AND I have never seen a gun that you
could not get to shoot better with some worked up hand made fodder.
03-29-2005, 10:05 AM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Central PA
Posts: 590
RE: Finally harvested an animal with a reload!!!
Congrats on your harvest! It makes it all the more memorable when you've used your own handload to make it happen. I can recall that 5 point whitetail on opening day and the little 130 grain Sierra that went to its mark after I seated into place a month before. I was 14 years old and can remember the shot like it was yesterday.
I still have that .270 and a lot of fond memories of game it collected with my handloads. My son who just turned 12, the legal hunting age here in PA, took his very first deer this year with that same .270 this past fall. Same equipment, same handload, same excellent feeling x 1000.
I still have that .270 and a lot of fond memories of game it collected with my handloads. My son who just turned 12, the legal hunting age here in PA, took his very first deer this year with that same .270 this past fall. Same equipment, same handload, same excellent feeling x 1000.
03-31-2005, 11:32 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location:
Posts: 2,555
RE: Finally harvested an animal with a reload!!!
Last year I killed both my mulie buch and bull elk with my own reloads. I haven't been rifle hunting in years but it was fun rewarding knowing I rolled my own. I do the same with my archery gear, I buy bare shafts and then put them together, again very rewarding and more accurate.
