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View Poll Results: Do you reload shotgun shells?
Yes. 32 29.36%
No. 48 44.04%
Specific to a few gauges(please specify) 9 8.26%
Used to. 22 20.18%
What’s reloading? 3 2.75%
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Old 09-09-2020, 06:14 AM
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reload 12 gauge with brass hulls and 410 as well. Tons of fun at the range with my old double hammer guns. Everyone likes a couple of rounds for the nostalgia.
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Old 09-09-2020, 03:11 PM
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I scooped up some cheap used MEC presses and my buddy and I setup an assembly line in the garage. We can throw the game up on the TV and BS but still turn out better than 100 an hour. We’ve had some luck finding people with random boxes of stuff they don’t use anymore so component costs haven’t been too bad but it’s pretty close. If we have to pay retail going forward it might get too expensive, I’ll keep loading 28ga skeet loads for sure though.

Our initial plan was to practice a bit on target loads then start doing our steel waterfowl stuff however finding reliable data has turned out to be a chore. BPI has changed their wads recently and said for the first couple years that old data was interchangeable but they’ve pulled back on that now. Then on top of that Alliant has pulled all of their steel recipes from their online guide although the 2019. Starting to seem like more work than I was hoping it would be.
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Old 09-09-2020, 04:37 PM
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Alliant Steel data for 10 and 12 gauge is on their website.
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Old 09-09-2020, 05:01 PM
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Alliant Steel data for 10 and 12 gauge is on their website.
So sort of. If you go to products then select Steel then click on the load recipes link it's there but if you go in through the Reloader's guide it isn't. There were some threads on Duck Hunting Chat about it, been that way for a while, IDK if that's on purpose or not.
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Old 09-11-2020, 11:40 AM
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I had Ponsness loaders. Great machines that would crank out a lot of ammo in short order. Sold all my shotshell reloading stuff a couple of years ago. I shoot mostly 12 and 20 gauge. There is not enough cost savings to be worth the trouble and you can now buy such a wide selection of loads there isn't that incentive either.. I got rid of the 410 because factory ammo is really expensive and I didn't like loading it.
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Old 09-13-2020, 09:45 AM
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Just ordered a roll crimping kit for the .410 and hull vice from BPI for shotshells.Have a MEC 600 JR for 2.5" folded crimps. As well ordered a roll crimp tool for 12ga to do slugs for a rifled barrel.
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Old 09-13-2020, 03:08 PM
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Just ordered a roll crimping kit for the .410 and hull vice from BPI for shotshells.Have a MEC 600 JR for 2.5" folded crimps. As well ordered a roll crimp tool for 12ga to do slugs for a rifled barrel.
If you haven’t already, contact Bilozir in southern Alberta all your BPI needs
https://bilozir.net/gun-reloading/
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Old 09-13-2020, 03:29 PM
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And he didn't have in stock what I wanted.
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Old 09-13-2020, 03:41 PM
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And he didn't have in stock what I wanted.
Rusty Wood handles some specialty shotshell reloading tooling and components as well, and I would much rather do business with them.
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Old 09-14-2020, 06:35 AM
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https://www.rustywood.ca/order/
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Old 09-14-2020, 07:39 AM
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That seems like an odd way to go about things.
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Old 09-14-2020, 09:00 AM
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Even with the 10% for the weak dollar they are cheaper than Bilizior on most stuff, actually have stock and they are a whole bunch nicer to deal with.
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Even with the 10% for the weak dollar they are cheaper than Bilizior on most stuff, actually have stock and they are a whole bunch nicer to deal with.
Much better customer service.
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Old 09-14-2020, 11:33 AM
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What they wack me for duty .I'll get the rest of the odds and ends in Canada like 3" /12ga Cheddite hulls for the slugs , a brass 6pt crimp starter for the MEC 600/.410 press,and some HV28ga wads.
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Old 09-15-2020, 03:25 PM
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From BPI today and they can't ship overshot cards to Canada? There goes my plans for world domination.Luckily a 3/8 's punch and waxed cardboard milk cartons looks like it will work in the .410
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Old 09-15-2020, 03:28 PM
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From BPI today and they can't ship overshot cards to Canada? There goes my plans for world domination.Luckily a 3/8 's punch and waxed cardboard milk cartons looks like it will work in the .410
Check out track of the wolf. They ship stuff to me all the time and carry a ton of stuff.
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Old 09-15-2020, 04:02 PM
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Love 3/4 oz 12s
We call them Baby Farts.
Still break clays at 35-40yds if I do my bit
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Old 09-15-2020, 04:43 PM
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1oz /12ga for grouse as you don't need a lot of shot to take them down.almost no recoil is a bonus. There is a firm in Quebec that carries BPI products at reasonable prices.Rusty Wagon does not have what I'm looking for at the moment.I have a lifetime supply of wads Win/Rem but want to build some longer range specialty ammo as well as BG slugs to save some money.
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Old 09-16-2020, 01:39 PM
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So sort of. If you go to products then select Steel then click on the load recipes link it's there but if you go in through the Reloader's guide it isn't. There were some threads on Duck Hunting Chat about it, been that way for a while, IDK if that's on purpose or not.
If you e-mail Western Powders, they'll give you info if they have it, probably be able to tell you why Alliant pulled the info.
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Old 09-18-2020, 05:47 PM
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Love 3/4 oz 12s
We call them Baby Farts.
Still break clays at 35-40yds if I do my bit
For what they call "Killer Bees" 3/4 oz shot at 1400fps with special BPI wads REX24.........ordered some just for upland in 12ga
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Old 09-18-2020, 06:16 PM
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I just bought a flat of target loads yesterday.
I think reloading is coming back into style.
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Old 09-18-2020, 07:56 PM
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Circle Flysells card and fibre wads
.I also have some extras I think
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