Gary Reeder
it always pays to have good friends and Steve Hornady is
Tuesday, June 07, 2022, 11:13

one of the best. Years ago when Steve and his people developed the 17 HMR he asked me to build a revolver in that caliber. I did and sent it to him, no charge. So we were the first to build a 17 HMR revolver.
Recently when I couldn't find any 375 caliber bullets for my upcoming Africa hunt I called Steve to see if he could get me a couple of boxes of the Dangerous Game bullets. He said sure and then called me back and said they didn't have any 375 caliber bullets in the whole building and he had an Africa hunt coming up in a couple of weeks too. He was planning on using the 375 Ruger rifle with those bullets. He called back later and said one of his employees had almost a full box of the bullets. Steve said there were 41 in the box and he sent me 20 of them for my hunt.

Then recently I was talking to him and mentioned I sure wish I had some 405 brass but there was none in the country. He said "let me check on something, I'll get back to you". He called back later and said they had almost 20,000 rounds of 405 brass that they were saving for reloading 405 ammo. He said with all the back logs they wouldn't be loading any 405 for a good long while and if I wanted them I could have them, and he gave me a good price too. So I ended up with almost 20,000 rounds of 405 brass. Like I said above it pays to have friends.