Heym SR20
Well-Known Member
Home loading is seen and portrayed by many as a dark art, and especially those who shoot competitively can go to extraordinary lengths to fine tune ammo for their rifles and getting them to shoot tiny little groups.
I reload, mainly because I use a cartridge, the 7x65r that is not readily available in the UK. I bought a 2nd hand reloading kit 12 years ago for well under £100, and other sets of dies haven’t added to it.
Saying that factory ammo just plain works in most rifles, and gives more than enough accuracy for killing deer. But then I am fortunate in having a well stocked gunshop reasonably close to me in Edinburgh.
And in terms of cost, it very much depends on how you value the capital cost of the equipment and your time.
I have fired off 51 rounds of the last few days. 1 from my 7x65r at a sika stag, the rest from 223 at paper. I am away looking after a friends place with ability to shoot from the back door. I have tubs of powder, bullets and primers that have sitting on my shelf for a good while - certainly from well before lockdown. So i loaded up 50 223rds and been testing my lockdown project. Now if I had factory ammo that would have cost me £52. But as far as I concerned it cost me a lot less in components
I reload, mainly because I use a cartridge, the 7x65r that is not readily available in the UK. I bought a 2nd hand reloading kit 12 years ago for well under £100, and other sets of dies haven’t added to it.
Saying that factory ammo just plain works in most rifles, and gives more than enough accuracy for killing deer. But then I am fortunate in having a well stocked gunshop reasonably close to me in Edinburgh.
And in terms of cost, it very much depends on how you value the capital cost of the equipment and your time.
I have fired off 51 rounds of the last few days. 1 from my 7x65r at a sika stag, the rest from 223 at paper. I am away looking after a friends place with ability to shoot from the back door. I have tubs of powder, bullets and primers that have sitting on my shelf for a good while - certainly from well before lockdown. So i loaded up 50 223rds and been testing my lockdown project. Now if I had factory ammo that would have cost me £52. But as far as I concerned it cost me a lot less in components