Floppy_D
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Simply loading with a street-proven factory round, and practicing with handloaded duplicates for cost-effective training, seems to be a perfect compromise.
Works for me.
Simply loading with a street-proven factory round, and practicing with handloaded duplicates for cost-effective training, seems to be a perfect compromise.
And yet you say that youBubba613 said:I'll stand with the "I'll use what works best for me, thanks" crowd. ...
don't reload and actually carry factory ammunition.Bubba613 said:...and I'll add personally I do not handload and do carry factory ammo...
I prefer to think of it as proper planning in light of an unpleasant reality -- sort of like the way we keep canned goods, extra water and other supplies around in case of earthquake. Going through the meat grinder that is our legal system can be an awful experience. It is highly stressful, wildly expensive and can strain families to the breaking point. I know and understand it, and I'd want every edge I could have if it's my freedom and property at stake.Bubba613 said:... Going to factory when handloads work better for me ...simply because of an amorphous, unproven possible legal liability is letting the legal system beat you before you ever set foot in court.
The flip side of that is that manufacturers have to load for every kind of gun chambered in that round. They have to keep in mind that people will shoot .38spc+P in 50 year old Colts.I won't, if only because I don't think it's possible to properly handload an SD cartridge. Manufacturers have time and money that individuals don't. That money goes to R&D. They can use that data to make effective rounds that they then test and refine until it is perfect. Maybe over a very long amount of time I could accomplish that, but instead of taking years worth of work that could be surpassed in weeks by a munufacturer, I'll take 10 minutes to order some Federal HST. (I don't think they sell the bullets used in HST, anyway)
I'm not sure that this is really such a big deal for self defense. Bullseye shooters of course need to fine tune accuracy to the nth degree. And many IPSC shooters will load for a type of recoil pulse they find most congenial. But we're talking about tiny increments here.Bubba613 said:...tailor the round to perform optimally in your own gun, according to your own shooting style...
the less I have to explain, the better off I am.
So what you shoot someone with your reloads. The DA says did you reload them? No I didn't. Correct answer is.
They might be from some surplus stuff I got at a flee market.
Or I don't recall where I got them from.
This deserves a response.
Morality aside, lying is NEVER the correct answer in a legal situation. If it can be proven, or even intimated that you lied about "X", your statement of "Y" falls into doubt.
Really? I'd say character could easily be made an issue, especially when the defendant is claiming self defense. If the defendant is claiming that he reasonably believed his life to be in danger, you don't think that there might be competent character evidence to challenge that assertion. The standard, as I understand it, is whether an ordinary, reasonable person in like circumstances would reasonably believe his life to be in danger. So if th defendant testifies that he believed his life to be in danger, warranting the use of lethal force, it would certainly be proper to look at whether or not the defendant saw things as "an ordinary, reasonable person." What about evidence from you you could argue that a jury could infer that the defendant was of a violent disposition or obsessed with violence?justice4all said:If this evidence is going to be used, ... to impeach your character and credibilty, it should not be admitted. Character is generally not at issue, and credibility cannot be proven or disproven by what ammunition you used.
Almost. We have to add to ordinary, reasonable person "knowing what the defendant knew at the time."The standard, as I understand it, is whether an ordinary, reasonable person in like circumstances would reasonably believe his life to be in danger.
ther "gun nut" stuff can be used to attack your character and credibility.
I'd say character could easily be made an issue, especially when the defendant is claiming self defense. If the defendant is claiming that he reasonably believed his life to be in danger, you don't think that there might be competent character evidence to challenge that assertion.
I reload by the bucket for the range, and load factory after I clean my guns and put them on the nightstand. DPX isn't cheap, but neither is car insurance, PMI, etc,.