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handloader en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Someone who handloads their cartridges for firearms (shotguns, rifles, pistols, or revolvers).
   • […] 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:
   • Their household subscribes to a monthly magazine devoted specifically to handloaders.
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.

Forms

Antonyms

semiautomatic · semiauto · autoloader · semi-auto · semi-automatic

Relateds

speed loader · handloading · handload