Would you load ammo the night before a hunt ?

[willyp]

I don't feel that  is a good thing to do ! 
My ammo is at lest  3 days or maybe weeks old ?
I think this gives the  hand loads a chance to stabilize in the cases to have them more consistent  !
But there is a limit on how long i store loads that i have assembled to hunt with . 3 to 6 months is all the longer i will trust them ?  Most of the time as soon as i get a chance i take the ammo and tear it down after the season is over ? Why ?
Until you run into cold welding  of the bullet to the cases you won't understand how come i learned  do this .

[Dutch]

I have used reloads that are more than 10 years old.

My brother killed a buck last year and the reloads were 20 years old.

[Deleted]

I've found cold welding in my handloads after only a year or two. No big deal but it will spike pressures and reduce accuracy. Fresh handloads are the best handloads.

[Deleted]

If you are curious if you're handloads have cold welded take your seating die and turn it in. Seat the bullet on one of the loads a little deeper. If you hear a pop, they're cold welded.

[dougell]

Knock on wood but I haven't shot a factory load in over 30 years and never had that problem.

[dennyf]

20 years? Pffft!! I have reloads for some rifles I don't shoot much, that are older than that.

While I always drag it along to deer camp and shoot it before the season to check zero, my heavy barrel 25-06 loads were put together in 1993. Last time I killed a deer with it was in 2000, at over 400 yards. Since I figure to use it again this year, am loadin' up some fresh fodder. Only because I only had 13 rounds left from '93.

Last time I loaded up 32 Special rounds, was in the early 90s. Got plenty of 'em left. 8x57 ammo was loaded in 2002, have killed a few deer with them since. When I was still killing hundreds of woodchucks each year, loaded hundreds of 22-250 and 25-06 rounds, too. Them days are over.