Handloading Hunting Ammo

Oct 18, 2019

SHOW NOTES

Why reload:

• Pick your bullet
• Tune your accuracy
• Create premium ammo for budget-ammo cost

Getting started: 

• Instruction sections in reloading manuals
• ABC's of assembling a cartridge
• The Three "B's" of accuracy
• Choosing cartridge cases
• Prepping cases for accuracy
• Choosing a gunpowder
• Working up a propellant charge
• Choosing a projectile (toughness, aerodynamics, accuracy)
• Tuning seating depth for accuracy

Reasonable accuracy expectations

• Rifle quality
• Shooter skill
• Handload quality

Testing handloads for reliable chambering prior to hunting

Wrap: A question for listeners... check it out, and let me know!

Lapua cartridge cases

Nosler brass

Federal Gold Medal Match primers

Alliant gunpowders

Hodgdon gunpowders