I remember reading a while back, can't remember where, about reloading and self defense shooting. The author was making the point that a prosecutor might use the fact that someone hand loaded their own ammo as a way of perhaps making the ammo more deadly or more designed to 'kill' etc, etc. and that it might be more liability for the defensive shooter if they defended themselves with hand loaded ammo.
Now.. that said.. I know with some of it, it might be difficult to tell. I know plenty of commercial loaders still loading lead projectiles, and it's easy to match a factor loading both in looks and performance.
Lately I've been loading plenty of 38spl, and 357mag, both boolits and j-words, and semi-jwords with flat points.
Not surprising you can take my ammo and the factory ammo side by side, and for the 1-time shot cases that I cleaned and shined and kept the headstams together, you can't tell the difference on LRN, S-JFP/JHP, and ball I made from the commercial.
In a situation like that if someone looked over your gun... they'd just see ammo.. even if they looked further and looked at the ammo, and looked around onle.. they could find matching ammo from that manufacturer. They'd have to go as far as pulling the ammo down and looking at the powder to make a determination.
Now... powder coating.... I've stolen this pic from the 'what did you do in the reloading room thread' as an illustration.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/atta...6&d=1519609413
That's the kind of stuff that on first glance.. they are going to know is hand loaded.
What are peoples opinions on that?
Edit: By the way.. whoever made those PC beauties.. Kudos.. they look great. I'm not picking on you.. you just made great looking custom ammo that made a good example.