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Handloaders have a great advantage over folks who only buy factory ammo: We can deliberately load cartridges to a specific overall length (OAL) such that we can be sure they live eject from our guns. Those who rely only on factory ammunition can’t.
Recently a friend asked me, “Why do you handload?” To me the reasons are so obvious, so much a part of the way I think, I rarely put them into words. By the time I’d gotten through answering his question, I thought, “Wow, that would make a great article.”
Recently I had to develop a .45 Colt load for Cowboy Action Shooting. For many people the thrill of CAS is the sheer fun of dressing up in costume to fire the matches, and the camaraderie of their fellow CASers. Then you have the more competition-oriented shooters who, while they enjoy the other aspects of the sport as well, want to do their best at the match.