Design Your Own Ammo! |

I have seen folks look for their special load e.g., cartridge and bullet at major retailers only to get frustrated and leave, later to come back and hope that their pet cartridge shows up. In my most recent desire to shoot a round nose bullet for my 6.5 Creedmoor, you will never see them as a cartridge off-the-shelf with round nose bullets. It is not being marketed and sold. You must design and create it yourself.

If you are like me, then you want to be free to choose and design your own DYO ammo, to chose the brass, the powder and primer , the bullet weight and style, crimp or not, and most importantly the seating depth and overall length (COL) for their pistol or rifle.

Its fun and over a year, for an active shooter, it will pay for itself in no time.

For a minimal investment of say around $400 dollars or so (less than the cost of a new rifle) in reloading equipment the hunter/shooter, now a reloader, has the power and freedom to customize the cartridge for the game and distance you wish to hunt.

Reloading equipment brand kits like Hornady, RCBS and Redding are a few to look into. My RCBS set up below. It is over 30 years old.

You just need the dies for your cartridge, powder, primer, and bullet. There are many beginner video’s out there to see how its done but reading and comprehending a loading manual is necessary to be safe. It is not hard to do at all but because you are dealing with powders and primers, safety is a priority.

For me reloading and designing my own ammo gives be tremendous satisfaction that I created my own custom ammo and experiment at the range to maximize accuracy and energy delivered to the game I hunt. On my Africa hunt, years back, I designed my ammo for plains game in my .338 Winchester Magnum and my .270 Winchester. Both cartridge designs were tested and were highly successful in the picture below.

In fact almost all of the game I hunted across the US, Canada and South Africa used my designer custom ammo that I created.

You Can Do it Too!

Good Hunting!