Reloading shotshells without a press?

[oneounceload]

The loads I am referring to generally consist of light shot weights at low velocities, and can reasonably be concluded to be low-pressure.

Again, based on WHAT? You are using unknown recipes with no verified testing data

Everyone knows what the word assume means - you can not conclude anything based on unpublished made-up data and results

There are light and slow loads that have high pressures and fast heavy loads that do not - what are YOU basing your "conclusions" on?

 

[choppinlow]

Be careful strangeperson.

 

[Uniquedot]

Primers would obviously have to come from shotgun ammo

Actually large pistol and large rifle primers can be used to recharge 209's. Many years ago they sold a kit to aid in doing so, but all you have to do is remove the primer cup from the battery cup and seat the large pistol primer into the battery cup. Once loaded into the hull you can't tell the difference in them or regular 209's. You can still find those kits for sale, but it's really a waste of money since you can do it with common tools around the house.

You can recharge the battery cups many times before they wear out and for those that you do this with you can remove the anvils since the metallic primers have them and this makes depriming and repriming the battery cups go fast and smooth.

 

[A strange person]

There are light and slow loads that have high pressures and fast heavy loads that do not - what are YOU basing your "conclusions" on?

Overall, the trend I have noticed in published reloading data is that loads using light shot charges at low velocities with common shotgun/pistol powders have low pressures. The only danger I have ever heard of with working up light loads is that of stuck projectiles in the bore, and I am in the habit of checking the bore after each shot when I am doing things like this.

But it doesn't even matter, as I will not need to reuse the hulls, as I said.

 

[A strange person]

Actually large pistol and large rifle primers can be used to recharge 209's. Many years ago they sold a kit to aid in doing so, but all you have to do is remove the primer cup from the battery cup and seat the large pistol primer into the battery cup. Once loaded into the hull you can't tell the difference in them or regular 209's. You can still find those kits for sale, but it's really a waste of money since you can do it with common tools around the house.

You can recharge the battery cups many times before they wear out and for those that you do this with you can remove the anvils since the metallic primers have them and this makes depriming and repriming the battery cups go fast and smooth.

Interesting. Primer reconstruction is an aspect of reloading I have not yet experimented with. Do you have a more detailed description of how to do this?

 

[Uniquedot]

Do you have a more detailed description of how to do this?

It's actually quite simple... the center of the shotshell primer is about the same size as a LR or LP primer (It looks like a metallic primer without an anvil) and all you have to do is remove that and replace it with a LP or LR primer. If you sell your spent metallic primers to the recyclers (as we all should be doing) be sure to throw in the primer cups from those you remove from the 209's in with them as that part of the 209 is also brass.

 

[joustin]

I am all for prepping that is why I buy 10k primers at a time. If I was that hard up for a shotgun I would use a blackpowder scatter gun and pistol, maybe even flintlock to remove percussion caps from the equation.

I am a master typist, my Kindle fire goes out of its way to make me look bad.

 

[possom813]

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/436640/lee-load-all-2-shotshell-press-12-gauge-2-3-4-3

 

[JLDickmon]

 

[splattergun]

- The 12GA Lee loader kit was discontinued ages ago, apparently.
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-Ga-Lee-Loader-/110968764528?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d640f870

Lee loaders are not difficult to find, and they're still very inexpensive, about the same price as a quality roll crimper.

OTH, there are other kits like the Lee loader still being made, I just can't remember who makes 'em.