10 gauge components?

[MCgunner]

Found a website with steel shot, 40 lbs or some such 11 dollars shipping. Seems reasonable since I have no local source within 100 miles for a bag of steel shot. I found hulls at midwayusa.com, 3 1/2". Well, they seem a little high at 45 bucks or something a hundred. For about twice that I can buy loaded ammo. I have a couple of boxes of dryloc for a goose hunt this weekend and I plan to save hulls of course.

Now, what I REALLY want are 2 7/8" hulls. I can find nothing. Is there a site with better pricing on hulls and is there a site that might offer 2 7/8" hulls? I'd been wanting to load some duck loads in the shorter cases eventually. Now, I hunt ducks with 12s normally and they work fine, but I bought this 10 for geese and I think it'd be fun to duck hunt with it, too, but 3 1/2" ammo just seems a might much for ducks. I kill 'em quite dead with 2 3/4" 12s. I probably won't hunt ducks a lot with the 10, but I might grow to like it, never know. It's heavy, ain't real quick to the shoulder, obviously. But, hey, why not? It is a short, compact single shot H&R, a little handier if heavier than my Mossberg pump or Winchester auto and packs a lot of shot into a round unlike my little 20 gauge side by side. It's an option I'd like to play with next duck season, anyway.

 

[Tom Held]

RST Shells

RST in PA sells 10 gauge 2 7/8 inch ammo (www.rstshells.com), $12 a box for lead. They have a non-tox load also but really expensive, $40 a box for 10 shells. Don't know if they sell just the hulls. I bought some of the lead shells to use in a 1890 Greener hammer gun with damascus barrels and they shoot fine. But $4 a shell for a duck is a little out of my price range. But I don't know anyone else who makes them in that length. These are also low pressure shells for use in older 10 gauge guns like mine. I'm going down to the SHOT show in two weeks and will talk to some of the ammo manufacturers. Tom

 

[MCgunner]

Thanks! Well, I guess I could pick some of that lead stuff up. Would be fun to play with and I could recycle the hulls. Maybe just go shoot some clays with my 10 to gather the hulls. LOL Think I'll pass on that non-tox, though. Probably bismuth for older guns just judging by the cost. I have an old 12 I've thought about using again with bismuth until I looked up the price. I guess not, LOL.

At 12 a box, a hundred is 48 bucks. That's not any more than midway wants for just 3 1/2" empty hulls.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Check with Ballistic Products and Precision Reloading. One of those two carries 2 7/8" hulls and components.