Shoot a stranger's reloads?

[rbernie]

I've shot factory reloads wth no issues. I will not shoot reloads made by individuals unless they can supply me the recipe used.

 

[GP100man]

nope , will salvage brass bullet & primer though.

GP100man

 

[Walkalong]

Outcome?

Shot fine. I traded the gun though.

 

[Asherdan]

The only time I ever shot someone else's reloads was when I took hunters ed. again to go through it with my oldest boy. The second day was range time and the instructor had a Glock 9mm at one of the stations. Turns out we were shooting his reloads in his gun. Second round in my magazine the base of the case head ruptured and gave me a burning powder and hot brass spray on the right hand and jammed on ejection. I held on to the pistol, fortunately, cleared it and took the brass over to the instructor. Showed him my hand and told him it was damn lucky it wasn't worse and even luckier that it happened to me and not one of the younger boys. I maybe added a few other choice words.

One lesson was enough. My answer is no and hell no!

 

[Yo2slick]

Nope. I shoot my own reloads because I know that each round was inspected and correctly made. Reloading is a fun and safe hobby but there are alot of people reloading that have absolutely no business doing it.

 

[emb]

I voted no-hell no. But I reload pistol rounds for me and one friend. We split the cost of Dillon and components. I would trust his reload because he is an anal as I am with reloads. However, I personally shot my reloads through his pistols and worked up the loads for those pistols before he ever shot the first cartridge that I reloaded for him.

I have never ever and will not shoot reloads handed to me by anyone else, even another friend. Some of their work is very obviously just horrible. And I will not let anyone else shoot my reloads unless I worked up the load for them through the gun that they intend to shoot with my ammo-and it would never be a complete stanger with an unknown gun.

 

[Whitman31]

I received about 4000 rounds of 12 gauge trap re-loads from a co-worker who's father-in-law passed away. I trust the co-workers word and he said the ol' man shot trap for 30+ years. They were a little slow for my taste, but worked fine. To me it really depends on the circumstances, most likely I'd avoid handgun loads, think extra hard about rifle rounds.

 

[Shimitup]

There are only two people in this world whose reloads I would shoot if they told me the recipe, otherwise no, I will be responsible for blowing up my own gun.

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

If its from a master reloader at a fun shoot possible but no way from just a bubba at the range.

 

[Steve C]

I have no problem shooting a strangers reloads in their gun, esp after seeing them shoot a few but in my guns I don't shoot others reloads. I don't even trust commercial reloaders that much but have shot their wares on occasion.

 

[cliffy]

First I would unload an unknown reload, then . . .

Determine the powder, then weigh the charge. If well-labeled, I'd try a round. If I couldn't figure-out the powder by shape or colour, I might merely reload every case. I've done this with many American-made Factory loads. One round can hardly destroy my massively-built bolt-action rifle. If I had a semi-auto rifle, I'd consider harder before trying a round without disecting it first. cliffy

 

[NHSHTR]

No, Nope, No Way, Uh-Uh.

My non-reloading buddy once bought some re-loads at a gun shop and when he told me, I told him I thought it was a dangerous thing to do. They fired OK, but it's still too chancy a thing to do.

 

[KevinAbbeyTech]

Only in their gun! LOL

 

[coloradokevin]

Nope. Been there and done that many years ago...

When I was a lot younger and more naive I was just getting into pistol shooting (after shooting rifles and shotguns nearly since birth). When I bought my first handgun I also started buying the so-called "excellent" ammo that was being sold by the local gunshop owner. This guy seemed to know his stuff, and some of his customers claimed it was the best stuff out there, despite the cheap price. Anyway, this ammo was stuff that he reloaded in his shop whenever he wasn't busy ringing up customers.

Every bag was a collection of mixed headstamps, but price was the driving factor to me at the time (ignorance too). I had a few experiences with this ammo that are quite scary to me when I look back on it now, and in retrospect I imagine that I probably came close to a few catastrophic failures.

In a given bag of 50 rounds I'd experience a few rounds that were very quiet and didn't function the slide (squibs, or nearly so), along with a few rounds that were very loud, and caused serious malfunctions... On the loud shots the casing would often be stuck in the chamber, and sometimes it was a REAL fight to get the slide back again.

I only ever shot a few hundred rounds of this crap, and should have stopped sooner. But, back then I was a new pistol shooter, and I just assumed that these jams were "normal", even with my shiny new Glock (silly me).

After realizing that all of my problems seemed to be related to reloaded ammo, I had honestly sworn off reloading as a dangerous hobby that was only undertaken by reckless gamblers. I maintained this mindset for well over a decade, then discovered that it was the reloader who was responsible for these problems, not the reloaded ammo!

So, to wrap this all up, I only shoot ammo that I load myself; to this date I've yet to have a failure/malfunction that was related to my handloaded ammo.

 

[publiuss]

no way in hell I would shoot a stranger's loads. I will not make loads for anyone except my brothers. I have one friend who I trust handloading and we will shoot each others loads.