Shotshells Reloading Newbie

[cosmic]

You could just buy the ammo in bulk too?

Reloading basic target ammo is not cost effective. Its only the more expensive ammo types, buckshot and slugs that are worth reloading. Or something special that you can't necessarily find easily.

Have you checked promo shell pricing recently? Do ammo prices ever go down? BTW - I reload for 28 gauge, and the savings are substantial.

 

[murph83]

I did some shotshell reloading a few years ago. wasnt cost effective to reload target loads. primers and powder were hard to find back then as were buckshot, I would think that finding these supplies now would be damn near impossible.

 

[bluelynx]

Join a gun club.

Any advice from this forum could be possibly litigious.

 

[mbogo3]

I have only ever used a Lee LoadAll II for 12 ga. Works fine for me, as I'm not a high count shooter. I haven't done any for quite some time, but I do recall that the Lee did Winchester AA perfectly. One little trick that made a BIG difference in crimping - have a little incandescent lamp near by and place the hulls close enough to the bulb to warm the crimp area a bit. Even enclosing the crimp area in your hand makes a difference. I'm sure the volume loaders will snicker at this, but it worked good for me.

I warm the necks with a blow dryer before roll crimping .410 works like a damn.

 

[dakotamar]

dakotamar: You may have already seen this you tube video but, cowboy action shooter Jedi Knight, (jed i tv) created a video some time ago, describing how he loads his black powder shot shells. Shouldn't be too hard to find on his channel. May be worth a look.

Been loading and shooting bp shot shells for many years. Jed's method is fast and efficient for loading shot shells in quantity. A must, for Cowboy Action shooters.

Al

yes, I started following his channel recently and that is the method i use to load. I only wish there was more info on the lyman easy shot shell reloader. anyone using this loader?