Another reason to NEVER shoot someone else's reloads!

[smellie]

I attended a gun show just Saturday and there it was: an entire table covered with handloads for sale. I looked through the stuff, as there were some odd calibres there but nothing that really piqued my interest, apart from a pile of .303. I already have lots of .303, so I left it.

Got some 8x56R ad 8x50R Mannlicher at a gun show some months back, bought both for the brass only (got the 8x56R dies, too). The supposed 8x50R is supposed to be a quarter-inch shorter than the 8x56R... and it isn't. Pulldown for both, as they were loaded by the same guy.

The interesting thing is that it is ILLEGAL in this country to sell handloads unless you have a Federal Ammunition Manufacturer's Licence. That would be just peachy except for the fact that the licence means nothing: it is a very high tax and little else.

Thankfully, there are very few people loading commercially these days.

Which means that the gun-show stuff has very likelihood of being illegal (and usually for very good reason in this case).

Best just to leave it there, or else regard it as a source for the components which you can actually SEE and pay accordingly.
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