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I'm getting back into reloading slugs. Lyman 525. The big pellet gun mold.

My old recipe calls for 2-3/4" AA hulls. I used the old red hulls. 44grs of blue dot and hang on.

I bought a few boxes of new loads to shoot to make new hulls.
Haven't sacrificed one yet to the razor but they look a bit different.

Have these changed over the years?
 
They are no longer compression formed like the ones from 30 years ago.

They are now AA HS - HS = high strength.

Read theis.

https://www dot ballisticproducts.com/bpi/articleindex/articles/hulls_aa_new/NewAAhull1.htm
 
I have been looking at my Lyman #5 book. It does show the HS and compression formed cases as load data interchangeable.

Maybe i should go with the STS case now
 
I think AA hulls have changed twice since they were the best around. I was at ATA Grand National Skeet Championship in 2000 when Winchester first foisted their new AA loads on the public. The reloadability of the hulls took a huge hit at that point. I thought I heard that Winchester overhauled them a bit a few years later to try to make them a little better, but I don't have any good evidence of that. But yeah, Remington STS or the closely related Gun Club have been the hulls of choice since the AA went downhill in 2000.
 
As you noticed they are different but take the same load but not the same wad usually.
They new HS AA hulls are a good hull but not what made the AA so popular at the time. You could get old style AA hulls here for sale often if you want to keep using the old hulls, they are still sough after by many ans still great hulls red or grey are the same.
BB
 
Ruger007 said:
I'm getting back into reloading slugs. Lyman 525. The big pellet gun mold.

My old recipe calls for 2-3/4" AA hulls. I used the old red hulls. 44grs of blue dot and hang on.

I bought a few boxes of new loads to shoot to make new hulls.
Haven't sacrificed one yet to the razor but they look a bit different.

Have these changed over the years?
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Someone is (as of Monday) selling AA hulls for a nickle each.
I had to do a double take as I used to pay ten cents per back in the day and that was a good deal from Sunbury Cedar Sales (aka Bill Johnson)
Rob
 
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