Recycling shotgun hulls

[the spank]

Federal papers are still around and still a few guys here at least reloading vintage ones. I dug up probally 500 or so this year from my stash for a member since I don't do much 12ga any more

Ok from spanks" post below lets see hold old you are .I remember the 20 box lots also but do you remember the 1000 round boxes of the black AA trap loads. Best dam hull ever produced and for some reason some say color pigment would reload like 12 times vs maybe 8 with the red.
I have a few boxes still and maybe 300 1x hulls.

No I have to say the Black hulls I have never seen! I have seen the silver hulls, AA Super Handicap and never been privy to the 1000 round lots! Pretty neat stuff! Now you're aging yourself!! LOL

 

[BCFred]

You know I ran into a few black hulls. I actually loaded a few last night. They looked to be in pretty good shape for something that ancient. I wonder if black was used in more recent loads?

 

[3macs1]

You know I ran into a few black hulls. I actually loaded a few last night. They looked to be in pretty good shape for something that ancient. I wonder if black was used in more recent loads?

Not these.They were the very first super Handicap shells produced by any manufacturer at the time around early to mid 70's based on memory. You reloaded them with a special "Winchester Handicap" wad and WW473AA powder . Regular red AA's were loaded with 452AA powder and the standard wad. Only problem with them was some had issue they said with the black dye that made them brittle so they split the full full length after first time firing maybe one a box..However the rest you could not kill and would just go on forever They kicked like a mule and they were even available in a 1 1/4 oz international I think it was called load..

 

[3macs1]

No I have to say the Black hulls I have never seen! I have seen the silver hulls, AA Super Handicap and never been privy to the 1000 round lots! Pretty neat stuff! Now you're aging yourself!! LOL

Na not too old just grew up in a gun nutz house with a small gun shop so was forced to like it or not to get involved at a very early age. He didnot have to twist my arm to help I can tell you that

 

[M12shooter]

If diposal and or discarded plastic hulls in the field was a big issue then the govenments around the globe would have mandated the industry to produce recyclable or bio-degradable hulls years ago. Tossing them is no different than all the thousands of tons of plastics which enter landfills each year...sad to say. I'd shoot papers any day if they were a viable solution.