Buying someone else's reloads???

[TH3180]

I went to the gun show in Bloomington today. I was walking table to table, after I found Thunderjohn and spent some money. I found a table where the guy was selling ammo, ammo he reloaded. I got to thinking I don't know if I would ever shoot someone else's reloads. Maybe someone I know really well and 100% trust with my life. Buying reloads from a guy I have never meet before and will probably never see again. I just don't think I could do it. How about you, would you ever shoot reloads made by someone you have never meet before? I'm NOT saying the guy doesn't know what he is doing or anything like that. I'm just saying I don't think I would shoot them. Just like no one shoots my reloads but me. If I mess something up I want it to be my hand getting blown off, not someone I care about. I am new to the whole world of firearms all together. This was only my second gun show. Is this normal for people to buy another people's reloads? Give me your thoughts and opinions please.

Thanks
Tim

[xd ED]

I went to the gun show in Bloomington today. I was walking table to table, after I found Thunderjohn and spent some money. I found a table where the guy was selling ammo, ammo he reloaded. I got to thinking I don't know if I would ever shoot someone else's reloads. Maybe someone I know really well and 100% trust with my life. Buying reloads from a guy I have never meet before and will probably never see again. I just don't think I could do it. How about you, would you ever shoot reloads made by someone you have never meet before? I'm NOT saying the guy doesn't know what he is doing or anything like that. I'm just saying I don't think I would shoot them. Just like no one shoots my reloads but me. If I mess something up I want it to be my hand getting blown off, not someone I care about. I am new to the whole world of firearms all together. This was only my second gun show. Is this normal for people to buy another people's reloads? Give me your thoughts and opinions please.

Thanks
Tim

Personally. I'd have to know the individual very well, or know someone who'd been shooting his stuff for a long time before I'd take it for free, or allow it in my gun.
To me, the risk isn't worth any possible saved money
My $0.02
Ed

[rugersol]

lotta years ago, now, I bought a local guy's .45-70 reloads. Went to shoot 'em at Armored Fire. Fer whatever reason, I opened the action after chambering a round ... case came out ... powder everywhere ... bullet was in the bore.

I took it over to the "shop" and I fergit what the guy used, but it left a helluva ding in the port of my 1895.

That's what I'd call a "best case" scenario.

[Rodentman]

I agree, but I'm not even tempted since I reload all the calibers I shoot so there's no price advantage. Some of the stuff at the gunshow there LOOKED really well made, however. I probably walked by Thunderjohn. I would have introduced myself had I known him. Maybe next time I will!

[Shipyard]

bad idea. always, no exceptions. don't do it. end of story.

[gyrfalcon]

If he or the person/company that manufactured them doesn't have an FFL Type 6 he's breaking the law.

[mmcnx2]

I would never buy someone elses reloads. Heck I very seldom shoot someones gun with their reloads, and the once or twice I have, I knew them and their reloading skills.

If you really feel the urge to buy some, ask for a copy of their liability insurance policy! If things go real bad, the best case is it just destroys the gun, worst case you get destroyed.

[TH3180]

I would never buy someone elses reloads. Heck I very seldom shoot someones gun with their reloads, and the once or twice I have, I knew them and their reloading skills.

If you really feel the urge to buy some, ask for a copy of their liability insurance policy! If things go real bad, the best case is it just destroys the gun, worst case you get destroyed.

I would never buy reloads from anyone. It is just something I got to thinking about on my way home.

[gyrfalcon]

I would never buy reloads from anyone. It is just something I got to thinking about on my way home.

Not even from Blackhills Ammunition? Some reloaded/re-manufactured ammo can be much better than new from my experience... It all depends on who reloads it.

[ttousi]

one word

NO

[TH3180]

I would never buy reloads from anyone. It is just something I got to thinking about on my way home.

Not even from Blackhills Ammunition? Some reloaded/re-manufactured ammo can be much better than new from my experience... It all depends on who reloads it.

Nope, anything that is reloaded that goes thru my gun will be reloaded by me. If I am going to pay for ammo that is already put together, it won't be reloads. Maybe my opinion will change the longer I am in the sport, but I don't think it will. I am trying to load twice as much as I shoot each month so I can get far enough ahead not to have to buy factory 9mm ever again. Except if I start to carry then I will carry with factory ammo.

[gyrfalcon]

Hmmm, I don't really care if the company that's making it is competent. Nothing is different between new and reloaded ammo besides the brass if it's made correctly. In the case of used brass it's generally inspected extra, and has proven itself once already.

[EllisW]

I'd never shoot someone else's reloads, even if they had the same gun as me and I watched them fire off a dozen rounds. There's no way of knowing how hot they loaded them and the risk of my gun/hand/face being wrecked by their possibly inferior/dangerous process isn't worth any amount of time or money saved.

[JoeH]

I've shot reloads from others. In each instance, they are close friends with whom I've been shooting many times and have watched them shoot hundreds of rounds of their reloads. When one of these guys says "Here... Try a few of these plated 200gr SWC. They power factor at 170." I have no problem doing so.

I would never ever shoot reloads from an untrusted source.

[hammAR]

I use Georgia Arms "Canned Heat" .45 ACP all the time...............
never had a problem short of an occasional-out of thousands that FTF.................$.02