Any regulations against giving reloaded ammo to a friend??

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Hey fellas,

Im fairly new to the forums and to reloading. I recently got a Lee challenger press kit and plan to reload most of my 30-06 ammo for hunting/long range shooting purposes. My girlfriend's dad got me a bunch of brass for my 30-06 as well as a bunch of brass for my girlfriend's 300 win mag.

From what I understand resale of reloaded ammo is obviously against the law, what about "giving it away". IE reloading for someone elses rifle?

Sorry if this has been covered again, I searched for a while but found nothing.

Thanks.
 
No problem. As long as there is no problem.

Just remember if YOU screw up and HE gets hurt (or even if you didn't screw up and HE did) you will leave yourself open for litigation. I load for a couple of friends, but only after I had the rifles for a while and worked up loads I am sure are safe and that shoot well, and I didn't do it until I was long past being "new to reloading". My advice is to wait until you know your stuff before you start to load anything for anyone else.
 
I wouldn't be handing out reloads.. Only load for guns YOU work up a load for. You can't just pick random powder charges, bullet seat depths and give er.
 
If you load as per published manual and components that are suppose to be used are correct, then its highly unlikely that something can go wrong with your reloads. Give or sell it doesn't really matter as long as people you give or sell your reloads understand that these are reloads and not new factory ammo.
 
It's a at your own risk situation. Basically if You screw up and they get injured they could potentialy hold You liable and you could end up facing a court battle. They may not win but it wont be fun either way
 
Yeah, the annals of Canadian jurisprudence are stuffed to the rafters with case law about handloading gone wrong. Not. Once you know what you are doing, full length re-size - not for liability, but to ensure cartridge will chamber in rifle that you don't have handy to try them in - and stick to sensible loads, why not?

Cost, maybe. Depends on how much money you have, and what value you put on having something in common with an individual who may become a player in your life. But as for liability, hey, you are liable for everything you do. Idiots blow up guns with stupid mistakes, not because re-loading is dangerous, but because stupid is dangerous. But then, if you are stupid, you probably have already been sued once or twice, or will be!
 
I won't reload for anyone, except family. And for safety reasons, I always get the rifle of the family member in the loading room with me, to see if the cartridges fit ok, then I take it to the range and make sure the reloads are shooting OK.
 
As mentioned, reloading for somebody else has liability issues, even in Canada. Isn't illegal though.
Only thing is you would have to load the work up load, they'd have to shoot it then tell you what loads shoots best. They, the GF aside, have the time, etc to do that?
 
As a rule I only let non-family shoot my reloads in my rifles (the rifles I worked up the loads in).
I do reload for my dad but borrowed his 308 for a couple weeks to work up the load. Since it's a near-max lightly-compressed load (I worked up to that and the rifle really liked it) it would be hard to overpressure it since I can't really fit any more powder in the cases unless I go right to the top of the neck.

I had a friend ask for reloads once for his rifle and instead I invited him over and coached him through the use of my reloading equipment. He did everything and I advised as he went. About a month later I was talking to him and he said because of what I did he had just bought an RCBS Rockchucker Supreme kit. He said he didn't realize he would enjoy reloading so much and he's the kind of guy with an almost obsessive attention to detail so he makes a good reloader.
 
To quote Ed Burlew, on the topic of reloading and Canadian law, " And you cannot resell or give away these (personally reloaded)* cartridges. If you intend to, you need a license and more restrictions must be met. If you do not follow this you will be liable to be charged with unsafe storage under the Criminal Code." See http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/legal_info_for_reloaders.html

*added for clarification
 
H4831 said:
I won't reload for anyone, except family. And for safety reasons, I always get the rifle of the family member in the loading room with me, to see if the cartridges fit ok, then I take it to the range and make sure the reloads are shooting OK.
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That's the same thing I do. I ask if they're looking for speed or accuracy/consistency. Usually the answer is in favor of the tightest-grouping load. In my experience, for most cartridges, best group comes in under max load.
 
Brewster, your Ed Burlew quote is contrary to anything I have ever heard or read on the matter, but I will take it under advisement. I do wonder though, if Burlew was using the words "give away" in the sense of 'wink, wink' barter. You know, the kind of genius we see so often on these pages, where some barracks lawyer says he will just tell the officer/judge that "I was just cleaning my gun," at oh dark-thirty in the bedroom with the lights off and no cleaning materials or equipment in sight. As in, "No, I didn't sell him my reloads, I just gave them to him, and he "gave" me a bottle of whiskey."

In the meantime, I won't be giving my handloads away.
 
ykkid said:
Brewster, your Ed Burlew quote is contrary to anything I have ever heard or read on the matter.
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I reload for my wife. I do all the reloading in our house. we share some of the same calibers. So according to this Ed Burlew.. by me giving my wife the reloads I have made; I am subject to "unsafe storage"? How does that even make sense?:bangHead:
 
Thinking about it family would probally sue me if something went wrong way quicker than a friend. Especially the mrs :)
I reload for no one but me. You want reloads buy your components I say and come to my place and reload your own
Just my 2 cents
 
gewehr76 said:
If you load as per published manual and components that are suppose to be used are correct, then its highly unlikely that something can go wrong with your reloads. Give or sell it doesn't really matter as long as people you give or sell your reloads understand that these are reloads and not new factory ammo.
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I know a few people who will provide reloads without seeing your rifle. Mostly for hard to find cartridges. Rem, Win, Federal do it too.
 
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