Loading your own defense ammo.

[Spartan1980]

So is anyone out there reloading or planning on loading your own defense rounds? With the newly enforced "restrictions" by Speer/Federal/ATK on only selling 50 count LE boxes to credentialed LEOs and departments I have a hard time giving them anymore business. I'll load my own Gold Dots or switch to Remington, Magtech, Sig, etc. Note that this is in no way a slap at the LEO community, it is however a full on face slap at the manufacturers that think we "private citizens" should have to pay a 100% markup for quality, proven, ammunition.

And I'm also wondering if Speer will continue to sell Gold Dot bullets to handloaders in the common defensive pistol calibers on an ongoing basis. About the only silver lining I can see coming from this is that primers should become more available when their sales demand drops through the floor.

[Wes Sage]

I load all my own, and use nothing but Gold Dots, in Nickel cases.
Primers won't go down due to SD ammo things changing though

So is anyone out there reloading or planning on loading your own defense rounds? With the newly enforced "restrictions" by Speer/Federal/ATK on only selling 50 count LE boxes to credentialed LEOs and departments I have a hard time giving them anymore business. I'll load my own Gold Dots or switch to Remington, Magtech, Sig, etc. Note that this is in no way a slap at the LEO community, it is however a full on face slap at the manufacturers that think we "private citizens" should have to pay a 100% markup for quality, proven, ammunition.

And I'm also wondering if Speer will continue to sell Gold Dot bullets to handloaders in the common defensive pistol calibers on an ongoing basis. About the only silver lining I can see coming from this is that primers should become more available when their sales demand drops through the floor.

[coachk12]

So is anyone out there reloading or planning on loading your own defense rounds? With the newly enforced "restrictions" by Speer/Federal/ATK on only selling 50 count LE boxes to credentialed LEOs and departments I have a hard time giving them anymore business. I'll load my own Gold Dots or switch to Remington, Magtech, Sig, etc. Note that this is in no way a slap at the LEO community, it is however a full on face slap at the manufacturers that think we "private citizens" should have to pay a 100% markup for quality, proven, ammunition.

And I'm also wondering if Speer will continue to sell Gold Dot bullets to handloaders in the common defensive pistol calibers on an ongoing basis. About the only silver lining I can see coming from this is that primers should become more available when their sales demand drops through the floor.

Nope too much liability..gives an attorney ammunition against you in a shoot..

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[Wes Sage]

Never happened in history where someone has had that used against them.
Odds of actually shooting someone in SD are so small, it will never matter in our lives, and ammo is not something they are going to dig into.
Just my .02c

Nope too much liability..gives an attorney ammunition against you in a shoot..

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[Adam Van Camp]

I load all of my own SD ammo.

[CodySPowell]

Here's my results with my defensive hand loads!
115gr Speer Gold Dots

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[Spartan1980]

Nope too much liability..gives an attorney ammunition against you in a shoot..

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In my state and good shoot is a good shoot. But I've yet to find a case that reloaded ammo was even brought up. If there's one out there, I'd like to see it.

[ReneeMicelli]

Never happened in history where someone has had that used against them.
Odds of actually shooting someone in SD are so small, it will never matter in our lives, and ammo is not something they are going to dig into.
Just my .02c

Wes is 100% correct. That story is a fallacy perpetuated by Mas Ayoob and a few others who make good money testifying in court cases where the ammo manufacturers get named as co-defendants. It is in those gentlemen's self interests that you use factory ammo to defend themselves because they make beau coup bucks for very little work.

[Spartan1980]

I load all my own, and use nothing but Gold Dots, in Nickel cases.
Primers won't go down due to SD ammo things changing though

Oh I know, those days where they were $0.01 apiece for all those years are long gone. But I'd just like to be able to buy Federal SPPs once in awhile for my tuned revos. I'll just run WSPs or up the springs and run what I can find.

[EUDE75]

For my 45acp my defense load is a pulled black talon that i then relaxed to what my pistol likes. For my 45lc is a 250gr speer hp. For my shotgun in the house is a 410 with buck shot. 4 pellets one behind the other. Itd be like being shot 4 times in a row with a 45. A bullet is a bullet no matter who loaded it. My thought is even if it was taken to court as long as you don't say you loaded it how are they gonna know. All bullets were designed to kill. Its a projectile and it makes a hole.

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