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Andy,
Do you reload - hand load for any of your firearms that only use smokeless powder? Modern firearms.
Do you only use factory ammunition for all of your modern, smokeless powder firearms?
Do you shoot more of your black powder firearms than your smokeless powder CF and RF firearms on an annual basis?
Thank you.
Cate
Cate
I have hand loaded in the past....but just never caught the bug , so to speak.
So its factory loads for me with my modern firearms.
Most of my shooting is with my black powder firearms....closely followed by my .22 firearms.
I carry and shoot my Hawken Rifle the most out of all that I own.
Its my most used firearm....anything from impromptu "Betcha can't hit that" , plinking , formal monthly club shoots and rendezvous shooting matches , will be done with this rifle.
I shoot targets as close as 10 yards ( splitting a playing card edgewise ) to gongs at 200 yards.
For hunting I limit myself to around 100 yards.
My favorite shooting with it , is done in a causal way , as I carry the rifle while hiking or scouting for a hunting trip...and seeing if I can hit that odd colored rock , old leaf or left over spent shot gun shell.
Treating this shot as a "hunting shot" , one chance to make a hit or miss , usually off hand.
Please note that this is done, only if it is safe to do so.
Andy