I've always wondered if there was a term for it. I have it pretty bad.

I had it for about 10 yrs starting 40 yrs ago. Trying to have that one rifle that would do everything from varmint to bear and elk. Seemed it was always sighted in for the wrong load.

As the bank account would allow I increased to multiple rifles. Most different chambering's. A couple built for different loads and hunting environment but same chambering.

Now pistols I do have target loads and hunting. Self defense are all factory.

The article is sort of amusing. The author seems to have the gun nuts pegged alright.

As I look back over the past 50 - 60 years sometimes I ask myself - Jesus - !!! Where did all of these guns come from ????

My sons gun cabinet is bulging and he has to either get another one or wait for me to pass mine along.

As I check my ammo and reloading cabinets I find loads I put together 50 years ago still unshot!!!!

Gun's don't go bad !!!

When the next revolution comes I will be ready - !

I NEVER, EVER sell off my guns. Whatever my family does is of course their prerogative.

They don't call us GUN NUTS for nothing !!

yes......yes.....I do.

I can stop anytime I want to (and I don't want to.) Too much fun is never enough. Sheesh! Some people regret having over-chewed their food.

Seriously, the only drawback I see is mixing loads on a hunt. That has happened, shooting 150's when I also had 200- and 180-grainers along as well.

For hunting, I stick to one load, that is it.

For experimenting and shooting, I do load practically every bullet weight in a particular caliber.

It is very informative, and very interesting.

Sometimes I like to try something new with this or that component and once in a while it can lead to finding a load that I like better for "X" rifle. So when that happens I use the former favorite load for trigger time. But inevitably it always leads to MBS, "Multiple bullet syndrome". I just cant ever seem to have enough on the shelves.

I kind of liked the article though.

I plead guilty as charged. I like to experiment, so even when I find a good load I keep on looking. When I could get 5 deer tags I would shoot 5 different bullets for comparison. I do have favorites based on the testing results.

Why yes, yes I do!

It's a hobby - if you're having fun, HAVE FUN! No need to make excuses to anybody for your behavior - that is, as long as you can afford it.

Load 500 rounds and have 400 left? That's a six month supply, maybe five. Could be less depending how n the match schedule. There is also nothing wrong with having two or three good known loads for a rifle depending on what powder.or.bullet you can find.

i did, then i started using gold bond

I did when I was young and poor. I could afford ONE hunting rifle, and it was an OM 70 in 300 WM.

I shot Rockchucks and the occasional badger in the spring with 130gr bullets, hunted Antelope with the 150's, and Mule Deer and Elk with the 180gr.

Then, I found one in 220 Swift, and forgot about the 130's in 30 caliber.

Then, I had a 98 built in 257 Roberts, and forgot about the 150's.

Then, I traded into a Sako Mannlicher stocked carbine in 375 H&H, and found out what a 7lb rifle with scope would do for a shoulder.

It's a fun progression.

My reloading/hunting mentor, back in the '50s, was a one gun man. He shot a M70 30-06 for varmints, moose, and everything in between. His only load was 56 grains of 4350 (There was only IMR in those days), a CCI primer and 180 Hornadays. We full length sized using a two piece die in a vise.

He might not have been very imaginative, but he introduced a smart-ass 16 year old kid to hunting. I will be forever grateful. He was a fine man and a gentleman, even if he only had one gun.

I still do, but it takes some time and effort and some guns won't allow it..

My African rifles shoot solids and softs to the same POI, and in some cases my softs are brass and my solids are nickel so I can visually tell them apart at a glance.

Some of my guns will shoot almost every load to the same POI, that's good, and I may travel with my 30-06 to Texas for Whitetail with 150 gr. bullets and stop in NM and hunt elk with 180 gr. bullets on the way home. since both shoot to the same POI I don't have be resighting all the time, it makes since to me. BTW that 06 shoots 110 gr. bullets also to the same POI, so I can shoot a coyote on the way home if no cars are coming!

Most of my guns will shoot a lighter deer/antelope bullet and a heavier elk load to the same POI such as my 7x57. I have two loads for it with different powder and different bullet..The 130 gr. Speer for deer and the 175 gr. Nosler for elk or whatever, and it also shoots the 145 speer and the 160 gr. Noslers to the same POI..I like this gun., My 250 Savage shoots everything to the same POI..All this is pleasing to me.

I still play with my guns, and I like guns that will shoot most loads, prefer all loads to the same POI and I test them all and mark the results in my reloading book..

Im thinking maybe Petzel just ran out of something to write about, as many gun scribes have. He could always write a article on the 270 vs. 30-06.

Add to his sequence of events his advise is 70 years too late, I have already got ammo going back to the 1950s maybe further back than that. I am guilty of all charges and just hope old Pretzel will let me off the hook with a suspended sentence and put me on a work gang at the local range shooting up my ammo, I should be done by 2099 with a little luck. Thanks Dave,

I understand the problem. I had it until I found an 150 gr Nosler BT load at 3,100 fps in my .30-06 that, when zeroed for 250 yards, an 180 Partition loaded at 2800 fps hits to POA at 225 yards. Never had any reason to work up another load for that rifle. My other rifles, however... I'll just say that it's the challenge in finding the best load for whatever purpose is what makes handloading interesting.

Imagine the people who go thru life happy as a clam shooting only factory ammunition...

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Imagine the people who go thru life happy as a clam shooting only factory ammunition...

Do those people really exist

One caliber, one load, one game category.
It means that, according to game species and hunting mode, I'll hunt with either the .30-06, .300 Win Mag, 9,3x62 or 9,3x74R.

OGOL (One Gun, One Load) is my normal practice...

In my 30-06 anything worth doing can easily be done with a 165gr bullet, I've never loaded a 15gr in any of my '06 rifles.

Why? because if I can drive 165s to the same speeds, why bother?

If I want to "play" with different loads I have a 223rem bolt action rifle...

223 varmint bullets are cheap and I have a garbage pail full of 223 brass...

You mean to say some reloaders don't experiment?
Where's the fun in that?
I only have one rifle that I haven't loaded multiple bullets for. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Originally posted by Blacktailer:
You mean to say some reloaders don't experiment?
Where's the fun in that?
I only have one rifle that I haven't loaded multiple bullets for. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I think old P O Ackley would be very proud of us here at the AR workshop.

From mixing powders to get s specific burning rate, to making our own black powder, to blowing up bombs found on the air force bombing range!

What is life without experimenting??

Once I discovered bullet casting I started buying firearms with that in mind. I only have two rifles that get jacketed bullets only, a 7.62 semi auto and a Remington 700 25 06 bolt. I have established the load and never change it.
Why buy factory bullets when I can achieve the same accuracy and velocity with a cast bullet, at a far lower price.
I'll get the urge to buy another bullet mold then I can tinker with different alloys, diameters, different lubes, annealed or not annealed gas checks, powder charges, different powders, different primers, different cases...
There's lots of ways to frustrate myself.

Jim

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Imagine the people who go thru life happy as a clam shooting only factory ammunition...

Do those people really exist

I have a friend who shoots nothing but factory loads in his 270 Winchester. A box of shells will last him for five years. He uses three rounds to check the zero and one round to kill his deer. He is not interested in any part of the reloading process but only in hunting. I think he inherited the rifle from his grandfather.

My band teacher in junior high saved up to buy a Marlin lever action when they were about 130 dollars with the sales-tax. This was in the early 60s when I wanted a model 70 so bad I could taste it, but my dad got me a 700 BDL for Christmas. He always did it so that got you what you needed or wanted but always to put a little pain in it. I think that gave him a little pleasure. He also gave me 20 boxes of Remington ammo with it. Caliber was .264 Winchester. Then I saved up to buy a Leupold scope.

I loaded different weights for different guns in the past, but only loaded enough for hunting that specific year. Always was looking for the magic sub-moa load. As time has gone by, I have an old school library card catalog box full of bullets...enough to last me until I die and my son dies. BUT WAIT! XYZ Boolit Co. has something new. Must try that.
But wait, there is a new caliber (such as RIp's and my .395...no kidding) that I must try.