Don't wanna sound stupid, just wondering if it is legal to buy handmade ammo privately? Now that my wife and oldest daughter are taking an interest in shooting, it is starting to get expensive! But I do not have shop area to set up reloading equipment.
Technically the seller needs to be licensed as a manufacturer with all the zoning restrictions, insurance coverage, inspections and testing of facilities and products, compliance with the explosives act etc., that being an ammo manufacturer entails.
That being said, you're not legally supposed to lend a DVD movie that you rented for your own viewing to a friend either but everybody does it. Likewise, a lot of people get their fired cartridges reloaded by friends that aren't licensed and hopefully are
competent (your eyes, limbs and life are riding on it).
Doing it yourself is a much better solution.
You can buy a can of powder, a Lee portable hand press, Lee dipper measures, a set of dies, a bag of bulk bullets, a box of primers for less than $100.
A $9.95 Lee Loader is how I got started hand loading when all I had was a Ruger M77 in .30-06 Spr. I took plenty of deer and black bear with hand loaded cartridges made with that Lee Loader (still have it in a drawer somewhere).
I'm not plugging Lee products but that was all I could afford when I first started reloading my hunting ammo.
These days you can educate yourself about reloading and get load recipes from manufacturers sites on the internet. Lots of shooting forums like CGN around.
I've since moved up to a progressive loader and more sophisticated equipment.
The point of the story is that reloading ammo isn't rocket science so why trust or pay someone else to do something that is really very easy for you.
). Also some people have set up portable reloading stations in apartments so you might be able to start yourself, you can do a search to see some of the setups.
