You can't save enough money on foreign ammo or Joe Bloe's reloads to make blowing up your gun and possibly vaporizing a couple of your fingers worth it. The last time I let a jerk slip me a few of his daddy's reloads I thought I was firing a .44 Magnum instead of a 38 special. I informed him the ammo was not factory (he had put it into a factory box as if it was new), and also added a few choice remarks about his heritage.
1. Many, many amateurs take up reloading and 99% of them load too hot, give up after a while and then sell the remainder of what they loaded. Those little time bombs are out there by the tens of thousands.
2. Foreign made ammo has too long a history of non-uniform and corrosive behavior to trust any gun you value with it and too many foreign manufacturers have an established pattern of poor quality control.
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A heroin habit would be cheaper.
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