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I want to see If I'm not the only one who feels that no matter which I use, the both of them would perform just the same if not better.
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Well since they both can't perform better than each other, one has to perform the best.
Depending on who you listen to, you will get the speach of not to use reloaded ammo for a vast number of reasons. Some stated above, some that folks just pull out of where ever they can find them.
I will give you my best arguement for using factory ammo over reloaded. Keep in mind that I am not one of those that think I will doomed to jail if I ever did use some of my reloaded ammo for self defense, but this is the arguement I am going to make, since it is currently why I am not using reloaded ammo in my SD pistols.
The factories that make self defense ammo have a great number of people that are very knowledgeable about ammunition, ballistics, burn rates, energy and everything else related to how a bullet leaves a barrel and what it does afterwords. They spend great amounts of time to work up what will be marketed as their next newest and greatest self defense load.
I am going to use Speer for example, since that is what is in all of my 9mm currently. They have developed a bullet, the Gold Dot Hollow Point, that many find to be exellent for expansion, weight retention, penetration and all the other things that a bullet is expected to do once it hits it target. They have combined this with a primer and a powder that consistantly propells the bullet at the velocity that they have determined to be ideal. For instance, out of my 24/7 Pro, it consistantly chronographs at around 1210 fps with a deviation of probably less than 7 or 8 fps. That gives me around 403 ft lbs of energy. Not bad for a 9mm, especially when it constatantly goes boom when the trigger is pulled.
Now comes me the reloader. I can, and have gone out and purchased some Speer GDHP lead, have saved the brass from my previously shot factory GDHP, and could load them back up even using CCI primers (assuming I can find some), and whatever powder I find that would give me the velocity I need to achieve 1210 fps without blowing up my gun or damaging it in any way. Well this is going to take some time. I am going to have to try several different powders, with many different loading of each powder to get to that desired place where I can consistantly replicate what Speer has paid its employees to do. Could I do it, probably. Have I taken the time to do it, no not yet, because I have had other things to do and currently it is much easier to just load up the magazines with factory Speer GDHP 124 gr +P ammo and know that when and if I ever need them, they will do what they are supposed to do.
The reason I don't use my reloads isn't because of the hype of law suits or some rogue prosecutor. I don't use them because I haven't taken the time yet to develop a round that I am confident will do exactly what I know the box of factory ammo will do when I need it to.