handloader
noun1
Someone who handloads their cartridges for firearms (shotguns, rifles, pistols, or revolvers).
- Their household subscribes to a monthly magazine devoted specifically to handloaders.
- […] it's a handloader’s dream in that it shoots well with most anything you put in it. I have shot bullets of all types, weights and shapes, including lead[,] and they all worked. Savage, Marlin, Remington and various imported rifles all are chambered […]1956, Pennsylvania Game Commission, editor, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 27, page 54:
2
A firearm, usually a pistol or rifle, into which cartridges are loaded manually.
- So I told him he should ditch his handloader and get himself a nice autoloader, like an M1911.
- Related terms
- handload, handloading, speed loader