Who's behind the bench

The Person

I'm James. VP of a 1,100-member shooting club in California, long-distance precision rifle competitor, IDPA shooter, and somebody who makes his own ammo because factory loads don't cut it when you're chasing tenths of an MOA.

I've been handloading seriously for years — running 6GT and .308 on the long-range side, .45 ACP and 9mm for pistol competition, .223 for varmint work. I know what a good load development session looks like and what a frustrating one costs you in time and components.

This isn't my day job. It's something I built because I kept wishing someone else had built it first.

Why This Exists

There's no weekly resource that tracks component availability for serious handloaders. Not one. You want to know if Varget is back in stock at MidwayUSA, whether Federal 210M primers are showing up again, or if anyone has 6GT brass? You're checking five tabs manually and hoping.

The reloading forums have load data — buried in threads that are 12 years old, argued over by people who've never shot a match. The manufacturer sites have manuals. YouTube has tutorials for beginners.

Nobody's putting out a clean, weekly digest aimed at the shooter who is already past the basics. The guy who wants to know: what's available this week, what's the current thinking on this cartridge, and what's happening in the industry that I should know about?

That's the gap. That's The Load Bench.