Originally Posted by
rintinglen
I can ride the trail with Idaho on this one.
Unless you spring for the top of the line target ammo, you cannot expect great results. Whitebox, brown box, whatever; low budget cheapies don't measure up. When I can load top of the line for the same cost as the discount stuff, or load cast which is still better than the general run of ammo and costs even less, I am foolish not to.
I had two fairly recent experiences to back this up. My brother had a Colt Agent 38 (which I own now) that he could not get to group with any of the ammo he had on hand-and he had a bunch of factory ammo. I bought the gun off him, and took it too the range with one of my favorite boolit hand loads. Take am MP 359-640L and load it over 3.8 grains of Bullseye. 6 shots, standing, single action could all be completely covered by a silver dollar. The second one occurred when my son in law and I went out to shoot his newly acquired Paraordnance p-12. It jammed repeatedly with PMC hard ball. I told him to try some of my H&G 68 clone stuff. His gun ran perfectly after that.
Attention to detail, a modicum of mechanical skill and there is no reason why one's reloads can't be the equal of anybody's and better than most.