If you aren’t snowshoeing, skidooing, skiing or out in the snow, it is a great time to handload. For me it is quiet time with a good reloading manual, your favorite powders, a reloading press and endless bullet sizes, weights, and construction for target or hunting.

I have a simple RCBS Rockchucker Reloading Press that I purchased 30 years ago and loaded many thousands of rounds for my rifles and pistols. Most all the game I have hunted with rifle were taken with my own handloads, even my African Plains Game Rifle, a 338 Winchester Magnum was handloaded with 250 grain Nosler Partitions. The level of satisfaction for me was monumental to create my very own custom ammo. Accuracy was so much better too.

If you are thinking about getting into reloading your own ammunition and you like to tinker with tools as I do, it was a lifelong love affair to be the creator of my own custom ammo. There are many video’s on the market today to teach you the basics.

I promise that with some patience you can do that too! How great would it be to harvest your game with a cartridge you created yourself!

I came by the handloading because I am a natural do-it-yourselfer.  As a bowhunter, I built my own arrows from scratch our of aluminum or Port Orford Cedar, and cut my own turkey feathers. Below at my bow bench. Above the bench are a few archery trophies I have earned over the years.

Good Hunting!

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