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NE450No2 - neither of those ammo's is available here. BEsides, we're all handloaders who distain overpriced factory ammo. No one we're aquainted with, could afford to do the shooting we do, if they used factory ammo.

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Good point.

For the cost of a custom mold, a fellow would be set for a long time and very soon recoup the cost of the investment compared to shooting the expensive factory stuff.

The best thing factory stuff like Garretts has done in my opinion is set a standard of sorts, a performance level that the handloader can then use in developing his own cheaper, shootable loads.

No doubt there are those who shoot expensive factory ammo and shoot it enough to really develop field skill with it, but like many things "Big Bore" and "Double", I suppose such high-priced stuff gets bought little and shot so little that true field skill is not really developed by its use.

On the other hand, if a fellow has a wonderful cast bullet mold and no time to cast bullets, or finds it so disagreeable that he just plain avoids it and doesn't do it, the cheap slugs don't make the fellow a shooter, either...

BTW: Here is a report involving the Lee 402. Its performance can be compared to the premium .375's shot in a previous test.

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=1244

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Edited by 9ThreeXFifty7 (10/08/08 03:17 AM)

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