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Yes, there are some places that sell 12ga brass shotshells, but be very, very careful of the price...Shooters Choice in Waterloo sells Bertram (Australia),12ga brass shells, but they cost 5 bucks a piece, and it uses shotgun primers.....I get my 12ga brass from buffaloarms.com in the States (Idaho).....It`s Magtech brass and sells for $25(US) for a box of 25pcs....You just can`t beat that price unless you can find a Canadian seller for Magtech, but I don`t know of any.....And they use large pistol primers....I reload them with black powder for my Cowboy shoots and It`s excellent brass....The funny thing is, Buffalo Arms can`t ship pistol or rifle brass to Canada (US government rules), but they can ship shotgun brass shells.....
The method used to seal the mouth of the brass cases may not be robust enough for feeding in a semi or pump, you want to seal the mouth without any crimp as that will "work" the brass and eventually cause splits at the mouth. Most folks use a card wad and a bead of hot glue from a glue gun to seal the mouth, you don't want a shell coming apart in your action, as you will have to clean all internals, before continuing on.
My grand-dad used to heat parrafin wax in a steel cookie tray to aout 1/8" deep allowed to cool then turn upside down held with magnets to a shelve. When the primed shell was loaded with 3 drams blakpowder a home cut felt wad and shot up to about 5/32 from the end of brass a home cut poster type overshot was pressed in. Then the shell mouth wsa pressed up into the parafin.
This was in the late 1800's early 1900's they used anything for shot from thin lead plate hand cut into small cubes to punch press scrap to keep costs to a minimum.
He shot Lake Scugog, the Kawarthas and during WWI the Detroit River and St Clair. Two hundred was a poor day, he and his father were market hunters- canvasbacks .25 a pair, redheads and blacks .15 a pair the rest were barrel packed and wholesaled in the cities.
This was in the late 1800's early 1900's they used anything for shot from thin lead plate hand cut into small cubes to punch press scrap to keep costs to a minimum.
He shot Lake Scugog, the Kawarthas and during WWI the Detroit River and St Clair. Two hundred was a poor day, he and his father were market hunters- canvasbacks .25 a pair, redheads and blacks .15 a pair the rest were barrel packed and wholesaled in the cities.
