Reloading Steel Shot

I found that I can reload steel my Steel Masters, but get more consistent results if weigh the powder and shot.
The charge bars on the Steel Master are a it different and think the drop tube may be a bit bigger diameter, I will have to check.
When you change shot size you have to check the charge bar because different sized shot will throw a different eight wit the same bar.

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No sense checking cat the drop tube is a larger diameter , as is the opening on the (yellow) steel shot bottle.
The black bars for metering are also just for steel
But again. I still like to to do them one at a time it is no big deal
Just me
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That would not be such a big deal for me, I really only ever shoot BB as I generally hunt Canada Geese over decoys. For the few times I stalk ducks, I could just buy pre-rolled.

Anyone know if the 2,3/4" steel master can be set up to load 3.5" shells? There's a guy selling a used one locally, but it doesn't seem to be a great deal. $300, no ideal if it would be missing anything or hat charge bar it comes with. Seems steep when new ones are what? $350 or so?

Buy a 3 1/2 with what they call short kits to go the other way. New ones are at hummasons but they had to order mine in since they didnot normally stock them. I would say they would be $375 range now
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I've never reloaded for shotgun, only pistol/rifle. Is this a pretty universal truth? Or is it only for the cheap setups like a Lee Loadall?

The MEC progressive outfits look like the bee's knees, but not if they can't be used for reliable and consistent steel shot loads.

Nope, I used my trusty Mec Junior Mark 5 for steel.
 
Just for depriming/sizing, priming and crimping. First I weigh and load all the hulls with powder after priming of course. Then I insert the wad and use the press to seat it and put them all aside. Then I weigh the shot, crimp start and crimp them all. done.
 
Are you loading using all the MkV stages, or are you just using to for sizing, priming and crimping?

They work but honestly with the crap bases we have to use for steel hulls i.e 3 1/2 10ga and 12ga you really need a collet resizer to get them accurate especially for a semi or guage check them with the mec go no go which is just another step
So a sizemaster, steel master or a seperate collet resizer does a much better job other than the resizing ring on the steel base hulls, brass bases they are fine IMO
Even with the collet I do them 3 times to make sure they are back to tolerance
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The ones I loaded were 23/4" Federal Gold Metal and worked fine in my Mossberg 930. They were #2s and worked great on decoying ducks.
 
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