Remington1911
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I have reloaded rifle and hand gun for decades, I have also played shotgun games for about 5 years now....something about riding around on a golf cart and busting clays coming from different ways is just fun for me. I usually use an 1100 in 20 and until here lately shells have been cheap enough to not bother. I also have a Auto 5 in 16 that I just love to shoot, and have done a round or two with it but the shells are MUCH more spendy over the 20.
This is the total extent of my shotgun use, clays....that is it. At its highest point it was ~200 rounds between the wife and I a week. Costs of shells have cut that WAY down.
So already reloading brass I am tossing around the idea of reloading hulls. I know it would be money saved on the 16, thoughts on the 20....both the wife and I shoot 20's.
Are hulls like brass and they have a life span, if they do what kinds of signs do you look for, does the plastic start to crack like a case will....I am really coming into this blind.
I have looked at some reloading setups, and thinking with the volume I am thinking about....way more then the rifle stuff I usually do where 50 rounds is a large run.....thinking of something along the Progressive route. I generally shy away from progressive presses as it does not give the control I want for the rifle rounds, do I loose anything as far as how accurate things are with a progressive shot press.
I am leaning to the RCBS grand press, but looking for pointers and things to look for.
Like I said at the start, reloading for over 20 years now, but never done shotguns.
This is the total extent of my shotgun use, clays....that is it. At its highest point it was ~200 rounds between the wife and I a week. Costs of shells have cut that WAY down.
So already reloading brass I am tossing around the idea of reloading hulls. I know it would be money saved on the 16, thoughts on the 20....both the wife and I shoot 20's.
Are hulls like brass and they have a life span, if they do what kinds of signs do you look for, does the plastic start to crack like a case will....I am really coming into this blind.
I have looked at some reloading setups, and thinking with the volume I am thinking about....way more then the rifle stuff I usually do where 50 rounds is a large run.....thinking of something along the Progressive route. I generally shy away from progressive presses as it does not give the control I want for the rifle rounds, do I loose anything as far as how accurate things are with a progressive shot press.
I am leaning to the RCBS grand press, but looking for pointers and things to look for.
Like I said at the start, reloading for over 20 years now, but never done shotguns.