Originally Posted by Shaughn

The potential concern with reloads is not so much their use in a legitimate self defense situation, which one can agree will usually not see light in a criminal court, where rules of evidence are quite stringent, but in Civil court, where rules of evidence are quite different, innuendo and circumstantial evidence and opinions are allowed and how this may play to a jury of your peers is the great unknown.

Expert witnesses can be used to address most questions/claims one may encounter, but the less potentially controversial evidence or something that can be made to look like it by the opposing counsel, the better off you are.

If in doubt consult both criminal and civil liability lawyers and see what their opinion is, you might find it worth a small outlay of funds.

Personally, I only use reloads for hunting and practice and factory loads for carry and that because of employer policy more than anything.