.410 shotgun dies for a regular press?

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im thinking about getting a .410 shotgun but ive seen that 410 shells are crazy over priced... but hulls and wads are cheap... ive never done shot shell loading but I do rifle rounds a fair bit, so I have a press... is there any dies that go in to a regular press to load 410? I know it wouldn't be the fastest but I don't mind spending a bit of time loading them as I wont be shooting a ton of them...
 
RCBS used to make dies for reloading shot-shells. They pop up on eBay from time to time.

Also on eBay there is a fellow who makes hand-dies for reloading the .410
 
You might consider the Lee Load All 2...it is a shotgun press and is a reasonable price...69 bucks...Can buy in individual gauges and then buy the conversion kits for under 30 bucks...I just bought one in 20 gauge and plan on having a lot of fun...Now I'm looking for fellow shotgun reloaders.
 
444 marlin brass, some cardboard disks, over powder cards and a hot glue gun. cheaper then buying wads and dies......
I'll let you know how I make out lol.........
 
You might consider the Lee Load All 2...it is a shotgun press and is a reasonable price...69 bucks...Can buy in individual gauges and then buy the conversion kits for under 30 bucks...I just bought one in 20 gauge and plan on having a lot of fun...Now I'm looking for fellow shotgun reloaders.
I wish it came in 410; would have saved me from having to buy a MEC600jr. Even used it was twice the price and I don't use it all that much.
The Lee Loadall 2 only comes in 12, 20, and 16 gauge.
 
.410 hulls are mostly plastic and are loaded on a shotgun press. There is no such thing as a .410 die.
There is this though. Add the W's.
.surplusfirearm.com/2011/10/29/reloading-shot-shells-without-a-reloading-press/
 
.410 hulls are mostly plastic and are loaded on a shotgun press. There is no such thing as a .410 die.
There is this though. Add the W's.
.surplusfirearm.com/2011/10/29/reloading-shot-shells-without-a-reloading-press/

I have 2 sets of RCBS dies for loading 12 gauge hulls on my single stage press, should I call RCBS's tech line and tell them that this cannot be???
I'd add you to my ignore list but the comedy in your posts keeps me wanting to add you to my friends list, I just worry about what my real friends would think............
 
I have 2 sets of RCBS dies for loading 12 gauge hulls on my single stage press, should I call RCBS's tech line and tell them that this cannot be???
I'd add you to my ignore list but the comedy in your posts keeps me wanting to add you to my friends list, I just worry about what my real friends would think............

Don't put him on ignore, he has entertainment value. After CALVIN & HOBBS and DILBERT, sunray is my 3rd favourite cartoon.
 
Don't put him on ignore, he has entertainment value. After CALVIN & HOBBS and DILBERT, sunray is my 3rd favourite cartoon.

Yes but Calvin & Hobbs won't kill someone with their "advice".

It is only a matter of time before old moonbeam kills or maims some neophyte who doesn't know better than to trust the diarrhea he posts all over the internet. (GunNutz is only one of dozens of internet sites he frequents)
 
I never considered brass casings for .410...

I've a lovely little Sxs I've not shot in years...could be fun.

I've a few hundred loaded shells that won't chamber in it because they were not resized properly after being fired in a gun with a looser chamber. An actual die would let me size the brass down on a loaded shell.
 
I wish it came in 410; would have saved me from having to buy a MEC600jr. Even used it was twice the price and I don't use it all that much.
The Lee Loadall 2 only comes in 12, 20, and 16 gauge.

With the Mec you have a machine that actually does as advertised, makes usable reloads...the Lee Loadall...not so much... more poorly crimped/unusable wrinkled cases than usable ones when I tried one. I swear by and use a lot of Lee products in reloading but the Load-all is one item I wouldn't endorse in any way.
You're right, considerably more money, but, in over 3000 reloads from my Mec, I've yet to have one poorly formed shell.
 
I've only used a Lee Loadall in 12ga and have reloaded about 1500 shells on it over about 4 years (mostly buckshot and slugs). It performs well enough and considering the price difference ($60 vs $300 new) I would buy a Lee again over a MEC considering I don't reload shotshells all that much. I get about 1 in 100 with a wrinkled or messed up crimp which is only about twice the rate I get with my MEC in 410. I got the MEC for only $100 with a couple hundred hulls and 500+ wads so it was a great deal and I'm glad I did it. I wasn't going to buy a press for 410 at all because at $300 and shooting less than a case a year of 410 it would take a few years to break even.

If you had more messed up crimps than functional shells with a Lee I have no idea what went wrong. Either you where doing something wrong, the loader was messed up, or there was something wrong with your hulls. It's far from perfect but incredibly good value for your money in my experience. Did you make sure to orient the crimp before running the press down? The Lee doesn't have a rotating crimp die/head to automatically orient itself with the hull so you need to manually index the crimp before running the press down or else it'll mess it up. It's in the instruction manual.
 
ok, so, there is a few ways to load .410 on a regular press, it is possible... im going to keep my eyes open at gun shows for these rcbs dies. does anyone know of anything else like the rcbs ones, but that are in current production so I don't need to look for used stuff?
 
These are one of the only readily available sets of tools I've seen for sale recently:
h ttp://www.lanesreloading.com/410.html

Not press mounted but will work with a mallet or an arbour press.
 
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