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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
For decades my dad had handloaded hollow points in his bedside Commander mags. I think I helped him make them when I was 2nd grade. A few years ago I finally bought him a box of Hydra Shoks and took the handloads back to VA to shoot off at the NRA range. First shot - click. Recock hammer - bang. Second shot - bang. Third shot - click. That's why I wouldn't use handloands for a home/self defense gun. Never had a click with a high-end JHP round. Always a bang.
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I've been reloading for over 40 years now, well into at least my second hundred thousand rounds. I have never experienced so much as a hangfire.
A local boy (Oregon, actually) won the IPSC world championship in the early '80's, back when they still shot real guns. Ross Seyfried is his name. The course of fire was over three days, with thousands of rounds expended. He won with his own handloads. A South African wound up in second place, but would have beaten Mr. Seyfried, had one of his factory loads not failed. It had no powder in it.
Oddjob, like I said, we will have to agree to disagree. I've heard of countless cases similar to what you describe. All of us have. Like I said though, when it got down to actually verifying any cases that really went down like that, Brian Pearce was unable to do so.
Anyway, we all make our choices. Mine are made based upon what I know works, and have actually seen work (or fail) for me on real live animals, first hand. Many, as luck would have it, of about the same size as a large man. And it doesn't take some ear splitting, wrist wrenching magnum, although in my younger days, I was led to believe it did. I've since learned better, having used original spec black powder loads in the .45 Colt to take a number of large deer. I actually shot one lengthwise through a pretty fair muley one day - a 270 grain bullet at just over 900 fps. Even if it came to that, I don't think a jury would hang a guy for using the very latest 1870's technology...
