Shotshell Hulls Value if Buying

If you want to reload them for a hobby, go for it, but price out your components and tread carefully.

If you really want to reload those, check the shotshell load books for info. The loads are usually listed by specific hulls, as well as the other components. Stray from the recipe at your peril, if you are not able to work out the pressures and make load variations safely. Each hull has quite different internal shapes and using the load tfrom one style in another can either work out, or be a very bad thing.

The "standard" as far as hulls goes. seems to be the Win AA hull, and they tend to sell for about $10/100. Or you can generally pick them out of the bin at the range, for free.

If you don't need something special, like light loads or shorter shells, it's pretty hard to beat the cost of a flat of bog standard shotshells at retail.

Cheers
Trev
 
Gun Club shells aren't worth anything. Reloaders might pay for AA, Remington STS or Federal Gold Medal but there really isn't much of a market for them when they can often be found on the ground at the club.

The only time I paid for hulls was $50.00 for 1,000 single-piece Winchester AA 12 gauge hulls. They command a bit of a premium because they are out of production and IMO more desirable than the two-piece AA-HS hulls.

10 cents a piece for 12 gauge hulls is too high when you can buy a flat of factory AA shells, shoot them and have hulls to reload. You might be able to get that for premium 28 gauge or .410 hulls.

From an economic standpoint reloading 12 gauge doesn't make much sense compared to the cheap factory ammo but if you want different and/or better loads than being offered by the factory then reloading is still a viable option.
 
I used a lot of Gun club hulls with good results. In the end it wasn't worth while so I haven't loaded a shotshell in years. I did give a barrel of these hulls away last year to someone who thought differently.
 
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