• Reloading Services reduces your cost by utilizing brass provided by you and thereby eliminating the 11% Federal Excise Tax that must be collected on New and Remanufactured Ammunition.
• Remanufactured Ammunition utilizies previously fired and prepared in-stock brass.
• New Manufacture Ammunition utilizes new, never fired virgin brass.
• Ammunition can be loaded to your specifications where deemed safe.

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Loading & Reloading Services Basics

Economy, increased accuracy, and performance are common motivations for handloading cartridges. Reloading fired cases can save the shooter money, or provides the shooter with more, and higher quality, ammunition for a given budget. Reloading may not be cost effective for occasional shooters, as it takes time to recoup the cost of the required equipment, but those who shoot on a regular basis will see benefit. Besides economy, the ability to customize the performance of the ammunition is a common goal. Hunters may desire cartridges with specialized bullets or specific performance as regards bullet and velocity and recoil. CowboyAction Shooters (CAS) seek the best achievable accuracy, as well as the best shot-to-shot consistency, with the lowest recoil. Many handloaders customize their cartridges to their specific firearms, usually in pursuit of accuracy: they can assemble precision ammunition using cartridge cases that have been fire formed in the chamber of a specific firearm.

Cowboy Action Shooters (CAS) that take advantage of Reloading Services also have the flexibility to use reduced-power, light recoiling rounds competitions like Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS), where recoil recovery between each fired shot often makes a dramatic difference in final time score. Also for hunting rifles in handloading to the equivalent of a milder-recoiling rifle (e.g., .243 Winchester), to encourage recoil-averse hunters to become proficient with a full power hunting rifle. Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle just for Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS), a single rifle can be used with special handloaded ammunition until such time that more powerful ammunition are desired and become appropriate. This use of specialized Reloading Services and new brass handloading techniques often provides significant cost savings, especially in the case where a hunter in a family already has a full power rifle and a new hunter in the family wishes to learn the sport.

Collectors of obsolete firearms often have to handload because cartridges are no longer commercially produced. Handloaders can also create ammunition for which there are no commercial equivalents – wildcat ammunition. As with any hobby, the pure enjoyment of the reloading process may be the most important benefit. Where there is no time to reload, there are Reloading Services available, tailored to the needs of Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS).

There are three aspects to ballistics: internal ballistics, external ballistics, and terminal ballistics. Internal ballistics refers to things which happen inside the firearm during and after firing but before the bullet leaves the muzzle. The reloading process can realize increased accuracy and precision through improved consistency of manufacture, by selecting the optimal weight and profile of the bullet, and tailoring the velocity of the bullet. Each cartridge reloaded can have each component carefully matched to the rest of the ammunition in the batch. Brass cases can be matched by volume and weight, bullets by weight and bearing surface, powder charges by weight, type, and case filling (the amount of empty space between the top of the charge and the base of the bullet). In addition to these items that are considered critical, the equipment used to assemble the ammunition also has an effect on its uniformity/consistency and optimal shape/size; dies used to size the ammunition can be matched to a given weapon’s chamber. Modern reloading equipment enables a firearm owner to tailor fresh ammunition to a specific firearm, and to precisely-measured tolerances far exceeding the comparatively wide tolerances within which commercial ammunition manufacturers operate. Where the most extreme accuracy is demanded, such as in rifle benchrest shooting, reloading is a fundamental prerequisite for success.