Loading your own

by AaronB, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 14:44 (9 days ago) @ Paul

I do get it, that thing about loading your own. This past season I killed a nice buck with my Marlin 336 rifle using my own handloads. I had loaded a garden-variety 170-grain flat point bullet.

Even with the Ackley-fied cartridge case and the extra few inches of barrel it was still no .308 Winchester...

...but it didn't matter. It was enough, enough to do the job decisively. That made me feel pretty good as, at this late date, it was the first game I had ever taken with ammo I'd loaded myself.

It's a good enough feeling that I want to do it again.

-AaronB