handload

To load (cartridges for firearms) by hand.

He handloads his match ammunition. For long range he uses 49½ grains of 4064 powder, the Sierra Match King (boattail) bullet and Government (F.A. [Frankford Arsenal]) primers. How does he get Government primers? He pulls the bullets out of […]

You need what all of us could do with more of—off-season practice on running targets. That moral thought is all very fine if you live where jack rabbits skitter twelve months a year. The man from Butte or Boise can shoot moving-target rifle practice until he handloads or goes broke. But what of the chap from Binghamton, from a settled section […]

To load (a firearm, usually a pistol or rifle) by hand.

A cartridge that is handloaded.

Factory pressures on these items don't run over 46,000 but your handloads undoubtedly would, and the old action design seems to me a poor bet. If you want to build a 6 mm. single-shot, I'd suggest a Winchester high wall, or the action made by Wilbur Hauck of West Arlington, Vermont. —W.P.