Shotgun reloading

[Explorer]

I've started reloading for my shotgun in the summer last year and have since then got my hands on a PressureTrace II from shootingsoftware.com, you can then better play around with different powders and wads and avoid that your best gun will blow up

Anyone else reloading for their shotguns in here?

About the loads I've in example made a 34 gram - 1.2 OZ steel load going 490 m/s - 1608 f/s for 12/70, a very good waterfowl load

[retrieverman]

In the mid 90's, I shot skeet and sporting clays ALOT, and I had to reload to afford to shoot. I don't shoot shotguns much anymore, but I still load a few to shoot at squirrels with my BBF.

[skeetshot]

That looks like one really useful tool,and should certainly take the guesswork and trepidation that every reloader has when developing a load.

Everything else I have seen is guestimate, and it looks like this surely betters chronographed velocities and studying fired primers.

[Dom]

The shot is just too expensive over here to make it worth it. Shipping that weight from the states is not cheap, so I just buy it. Often get a small group together, everybody takes from 500 to 2000 rounds and we buy it by the 10,000 round price and get a pretty good deal. I shoot somewhere between 4 to 5000 rounds a year, practice every week starting March, plus the competitions, and end the year in September. If it was worthwhile to reload I would, but kinda glad because that would take even more spare time away Waidmannsheil, Dom.

[Explorer]

For target shooting it's too expensive to reload here in DK, we can get factory steel target shells for about 0.20 $ we are not allowed to use lead at all

Hunting loads from US is very expensive here in DK and in general the best hunting loads are expensive

[retrieverman]

The shot is just too expensive over here to make it worth it. Shipping that weight from the states is not cheap, so I just buy it.

The cost of lead shot and shipping it is high here too, but about 15 years ago, I found a guy selling his reloading supplies and picked up 450 lbs of Lawrence shot (7.5, 8, and 9) and 4000 CCI 209 primers for $120. That was about the time I quit shooting and still have most of it.

[skeetshot]

Yes, the shotgun manufacturers are able to offer standard loads at attractive prices.

I think where the reloader can shine is in the speciality loads. If you need those 65 meter loads that can pull the birds out of the sky or those special LGs for halting the charge of wounded leopards or speciality slugs, then reloading can help develop the right load at often substantially cheaper prices.

[Dom]

The shot is just too expensive over here to make it worth it. Shipping that weight from the states is not cheap, so I just buy it.

The cost of lead shot and shipping it is high here too, but about 15 years ago, I found a guy selling his reloading supplies and picked up 450 lbs of Lawrence shot (7.5, 8, and 9) and 4000 CCI 209 primers for $120. That was about the time I quit shooting and still have most of it.

Hey Retriever got a deal for ya, I'll pay you what you paid for it, and you ship it Now that's good for a laugh.

Skeetshot, agree on the specialty loads, could put some real interesting loads together!

[Explorer]

Agree with you skeetshot, I reload mainly for waterfowl and also non toxic wood shot made with tin pellets as non toxic non steel cost a fortune

[skeetshot]

Agree with you skeetshot, I reload mainly for waterfowl and also non toxic wood shot made with tin pellets as non toxic non steel cost a fortune

Tin Pellets . . . that is a new one for me. At 7.31 gm/cc it is much lighter than lead (at 11.34 gm/cc), and is comparable to steel (7.7 - 8, depending on the alloy composition) and obviously softer, but would it be cheaper ? Interesting

[Explorer]

Yes it's cheaper than bismuth and tungsten, but I would prefer that we used lead for our woodloads, we are not allowed to use steel in most woodlands as it will break the woodmans tools

And for good loads like Reminton Hypersonic Steel they charge us $1.80 pr shot