handloader

English

Noun

handloader (plural handloaders)

2. Someone who handloads their cartridges for firearms (shotguns, rifles, pistols, or revolvers).

   Their household subscribes to a monthly magazine devoted specifically to handloaders.

   • 1956, Pennsylvania Game Commission, editor, Pennsylvania Game News‎, volume 27, page 54:

     […] 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 […]

4. A firearm, usually a pistol or rifle, into which cartridges are loaded manually.

   Antonyms: autoloader, semiauto, semi-auto, semiautomatic, semi-automatic

   So I told him he should ditch his handloader and get himself a nice autoloader, like an M1911.

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