Managing hulls

[Licensed to kill]

Curious how others manage their hull supplies, specifically, if you have a good supply of once fired hulls (say……..1000 pieces), do you load a couple hundred over and over until they start to fail then start on another couple hundred or do you go through the whole lot, before reloading them for the second time and do on? How do you work through a larger lot of once fired hulls snd why do you do it as you do?

 

[tigrr]

I collected 1500 once fired hulls. I used 300 and culled them as they split or quit closing properly. I had 1000 win AA and 500 others.
I would bring in and label new hulls as I culled the old.
That was back when you could buy reclaimed shot in Victoria for $15 for a 25lb bag. I still have 2 bags of #8 shot.
I still have Fed, Rem peters and and a bunch of Imperial high wall. I love the smell of 700X as it burns to this day!!
I still have 500 of the Win reloaded with 7.5.

 

[doomed28g]

Logically
Buy a several flats
Use one flat -> reload flat -> shoot -> reload what you use -> etc until hulls are dead
Open next flat, repeat.

Reloading the ones you use quickly prevents build up (empty hulls take up more space than complete ones neatly in the boxes) and then there is less guessing about which hulls have more life left. Saves factory for when you need it most.

 

[Deathrawt]

I batch load a couple hundred at a time and toss the hulls as they get bad
I tried keeping track of how many firings but it was too much of a pita
One thing I do though is separate the hulls that use Chedite primers from the Winchester/Federal primers as the ched primer is a bit bigger diameter so don’t want to use a win/fed primer in a hull that I put a chedite in

 

[Alex McKr]

I usually load a flat-equivalent (250 rounds)at a time. Cull them as they fail. When down to a couple of boxes, I begin the cycle, all over again. I used to keep track of the number of times each hull was reloaded. But gave that up, as it wasn't worth the effort. When a hull shows splits(Usually at the start of the crimp), I discard them.

 

[stubblejumper]

I have about 4000 28 gauge hulls and 3000 410 hulls. I shoot about 3000 of each per year, so I load them all over the winter, and shoot until the next winter or until I run short of loaded ammunition . I cull hulls as they become unusable.

 

[kjohn]

I have about 4000 28 gauge hulls and 3000 410 hulls. I shoot about 3000 of each per year, so I load them all over the winter, and shoot until the next winter or until I run short of loaded ammunition . I cull hulls as they become unusable.

sj: you sound like me, only with powder, primers, brass and bullets. I have hulls too, AA old style, but haven't reloaded shotshells in years.

 

[G_Alan]

I put my once fired in a extra large ziplock bag then into rubbermaid totes for storage.
Like most of the others I cycle through the ones I have on the go. Discard once splits or other issues happen. I try to keep 3 or 4 flats good to go.