Comments on: Federal v. Remington .308 Ammo Comparison: One Sniper’s View

By: A Sniper’s View on Federal v. Remington .308 168gr Ammo :: Guns Holsters and Gear

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:23:12 +0000

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:44:02 +0000

Thanks for the thumbs up J.T., keep reading!

Kent I understand your frustration, because several I know love to reload. And some of those reloads will rate right up there with factory ammunition – if not exceed. I even like your idea of experimenting to see if certain loads do better for particular targets. Who knows, maybe you’ll develop a load that does so well you can market it to the manufacturers or sell it yourself.

The concern I think everyone in this arena has (cops included) is the possibility of failure at a critical moment. No sniper, supervisor, or Chief wants to sit in front of a jury and explain that a loved one is dead because the sniper’s “home grown” ammunition did not live up to expectations when it was needed the most.

Having experienced the Federal Courts in a good way (prosecuting international drug dealers) and in a bad way (I won a very frivolous false arrest and civil rights violation civil case), I can attest that I never want to sit in that “bad” seat again. Even though I knew I had done nothing wrong, having your fate in a jury’s hands was an unsettling feeling – with everything I own on the line (no State protections in the Federal Courts).

If factory ammunition fails, you’d be sitting in the seat as a witness and not a defendant testifying that you did everything you should have and the factory ammunition failed. If your ammunition failed, you’ll be sitting there as the defendant. If the factory stuff fails you will remember the tragedy but know you did nothing wrong. If your ammunition fails you will be haunted for the rest of your life with a personal failure that resulted in tragedy.

As much as I’m a proponent of reloading, in this case I say use the factory stuff!

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:41:20 +0000

I agree with 90% of what the author states. The biggest gripe I have is with not being able to load my own. I cannot understand why courts lawers and government agencies find this practice to be a liability. Loading your own would 1. Drasticaly cut costs to the agencies. 2. Allow more practice and qualifications per year. 3. Give the operator far more flexability in the loads they create allowing the oporator to construct ammo for certain purposes adding to their flexability. In these times we live in price and availability is of utmost importance. We in the Law Enforcement community should allow reloading as an accepted alternative to production ammunition.

By: J. T.

J. T. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:37:38 +0000

Aaron,
Bravo mate! Well spoken like a true professional behind the crosshairs!
Too much emphasis is placed on the color and name on the outside of the box instead of the splatter the bullet creates from the suspect at our average ranges of 100-200 yds.

Keep up the journalism…about time we had some truth on the net!