Metalhead47
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I've read from the self defense gurus (Ayoob, et al), that one should never ever carry with hand-loaded ammo. Reason being, if one has to use them, since there's no factory lot to compare them to, some overzealous DA could claim that the loader cooked up some eeeebil superdeadly round with minority-seeking bullets and enough powder to drop an elephant with your .380 :quirky.
My thoughts are, it doesn't really matter what you're carrying, if the DA has an agenda he's gonna go after you any way he can. And with the price of quality defensive hollowpoints, you could darn near buy a new gun for what you'd spend putting two or three hundred rounds thru the one you already have to verify feeding reliability, and practicing with your carry ammo is just plain impossible (if you can even find any).
Thoughts?
I ask cuz I just got a free box of .45 Hornady XTP's from buying one of their die sets.
I've read from the self defense gurus (Ayoob, et al), that one should never ever carry with hand-loaded ammo. Reason being, if one has to use them, since there's no factory lot to compare them to, some overzealous DA could claim that the loader cooked up some eeeebil superdeadly round with minority-seeking bullets and enough powder to drop an elephant with your .380 :quirky.
My thoughts are, it doesn't really matter what you're carrying, if the DA has an agenda he's gonna go after you any way he can. And with the price of quality defensive hollowpoints, you could darn near buy a new gun for what you'd spend putting two or three hundred rounds thru the one you already have to verify feeding reliability, and practicing with your carry ammo is just plain impossible (if you can even find any).
Thoughts?
I ask cuz I just got a free box of .45 Hornady XTP's from buying one of their die sets.