Loading Brass Shotgun Shells

[Adirondack Jack]

10 GA overshot in 12 GA shells.  Insert and mash down with a dowel with a fairly generous radius.  Makes the card "dish" and form a nice edge that catches the brass.  I still glue em though, so they are nearly immune to damage from dropping or rain.

[litl rooster]

10 GA overshot in 12 GA shells.  Insert and mash down with a dowel with a fairly generous radius.  Makes the card "dish" and form a nice edge that catches the brass.  I still glue em though, so they are nearly immune to damage from dropping or rain.

yer right it is 10 gauge they sell for the 12 gauge loads...........Glue sometimes will not hold them 8 or 9 gauge might be better. I may try to make some a bit bigger and try them.  Glueing seems to be the slowist part of loading

[Arcey]

yer right it is 10 gauge they sell for the 12 gauge loads...........Glue sometimes will not hold them 8 or 9 gauge might be better. I may try to make some a bit bigger and try them.  Glueing seems to be the slowist part of loading

Will found he was leavin' a bit of residue from the lube wads inside the case mouth.  He's been swabbin' that out with a solvent before he sets the 10 wads 'n glues 'em.

Ya know how much him 'n me shoot together.  Can't remember the last failure he's had.

[Adirondack Jack]

I forgot some of you pards use lube in shot shells.  One advantage of 777 is everything is dry as a popcorn fart, and the glue sticks good   I keep singing the praises of probond woodworkers glue cuz it's cheap, easy, no headache like duco) and sticks well.

[litl rooster]

Will found he was leavin' a bit of residue from the lube wads inside the case mouth.  He's been swabbin' that out with a solvent before he sets the 10 wads 'n glues 'em.

Ya know how much him 'n me shoot together.  Can't remember the last failure he's had.

I do too.................and I use lube between the nitro card and wad

[Dick Dastardly]

Thanks AJ and all.

Here's what I'm goin' to do.  I'm goin' to lay in a couple of boxes of 20ga Magtech brass.  These I will reload with my existing powder, wads 'n stuff and top it off with a 12ga overshot wad.  I'll give AJs glue a look also.  I intend to make a nice walnut loading block for 25 shells at a time.

Since my load calls for lubed wads, I'll give the inside of the mouth a wipe before I drop the shot.

After shooting, into the wide mouth bottle they go.  When I get home, into the Ceramic Porcelain tumbler they go.

I'll report back how the lil 20ga 311 likes these.  This is one gun that don't like no plastic wads.  It patterns great with fiber ones.  In fact, it's a death ray on KDs.

DD-DLoS

[litl rooster]

DD I would like to see the loading block you make......I bought one it's not practicle for brass or plastic

[Arcey]

Took a couple hunks of scrap 1/2" plywood from bulidin' a cart 'n glued 'em togather.  Kindah ran the right front tire of the truck up on 'em.  Good clamp.  Laid out the holes 'n bored 'em on the drill press.  Glued another hunk to the bottom, same clamp.  Werks good, ain't real pretty.  Holes fer fifty shells.

I'm gonna square the thing all up, some day, on the table saw.  Route the edges round.  Ain't been usin' it long.  Four or five years er so is all.........

[Adirondack Jack]

I got me an idea for a loading block for 12GA brass shells.  I gotta scrounge around and see what I can find. Might be a chunk of PVC pipe meets the band saw and gets sliced into 1.5 inch chunks, which could be glued to a 1/4 luan board with a hot glue gun fast enough, making a light, easy to use load block.  Of course if I had access to a bunch of empty 35MM film cans, I think they might work too (I can't lay hands on one to try, but it seems they might).