Warning: Don’t read this if you are a precision reloader. 
I reload .410 using a genuine hillbilly setup. So far, I’ve only used Federal Upland Game hulls.
My method will cause some eyes to roll: deprime fired hull, insert hull in a hole drilled in a piece of hardwood of the proper thickness, marked round with a black felt pen, cut to length on the mark, prime (don’t ask), powder put in (Trail Boss), wad(s) inserted, two .395 wheel weight balls inserted, wad(s) inserted, (here comes the funny part) crimp started with the right sized box end of a little wrench. I use a roll crimper to finish.
I’m not at the shop so details are a little vague. I don’t resize the brass, and, being the lucky clown I am, my buddy Deaner came up with a piece of hardwood that was the right thickness, PLUS he drilled a hole in it that allowed the plastic to fit in, but not the brass!!
I only use the .410 for plinking, so perfection isn’t in the recipe, but the little shells go bang and provided new shooters with a great time. Two fellows that I worked with have boys around ten who shot off two boxes of factory Federals, so I have a supply of good hulls. I have also fired these reloads in my old Lee Enfield chambered for regular .410 and was surprised at the “accuracy”.
I keep all the reloading stuff for .410 in a box and have the written recipe/method/details in there so I can maintain some semblance of uniformity.
Pics should be self-explanatory:
I reload .410 using a genuine hillbilly setup. So far, I’ve only used Federal Upland Game hulls.
My method will cause some eyes to roll: deprime fired hull, insert hull in a hole drilled in a piece of hardwood of the proper thickness, marked round with a black felt pen, cut to length on the mark, prime (don’t ask), powder put in (Trail Boss), wad(s) inserted, two .395 wheel weight balls inserted, wad(s) inserted, (here comes the funny part) crimp started with the right sized box end of a little wrench. I use a roll crimper to finish.
I’m not at the shop so details are a little vague. I don’t resize the brass, and, being the lucky clown I am, my buddy Deaner came up with a piece of hardwood that was the right thickness, PLUS he drilled a hole in it that allowed the plastic to fit in, but not the brass!!
I only use the .410 for plinking, so perfection isn’t in the recipe, but the little shells go bang and provided new shooters with a great time. Two fellows that I worked with have boys around ten who shot off two boxes of factory Federals, so I have a supply of good hulls. I have also fired these reloads in my old Lee Enfield chambered for regular .410 and was surprised at the “accuracy”.
I keep all the reloading stuff for .410 in a box and have the written recipe/method/details in there so I can maintain some semblance of uniformity.
Pics should be self-explanatory:
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