Thread: is anyone considering shot shell reloading with the prices going up?

Just getting back into it after many years decision driven buy ammo price rises and the availability of cheap reloading* gear

Yup. Being prepping for it for years. Got laughed at a lot but always thought such a good thing as cheap Shotgun ammo would eventually end. Also, the loads I like to shoot weren't all that cheap anyway.

Still not yet worth it for trap ammo but definitely worth considering if you shoot something other than a 12ga and anything non toxic wise. You just have to be prepared to import the wads and stuff yourself

The cost of shot makes it marginal even for hunting loads with 12g. A friend has an old lee shot maker that does a reasonable job and it's perfectly fine to reuse fired wads if you can recover them. I make solids, some trap, field and "novelty"rounds this way
For sub gauges it is cost effective especially 410 though.

cheers for the perspective guys I had noticed the rounds I purchased for rabbiting had doubled in price, I purchased a tidy mec sizemaster for $60 and the previous owner threw in two bread crates full of hulls and multiple bags of wads, 100 kgs of various sizes of lead shot, 1600 primers, a few pounds of powder vectan and winchester and two more mec juniors and a pacific reloader so I have the gear and not much cost to get started, Im thinking i wont need the other smaller reloaders. or the 7 and 9 shot .

Well I have a buggered pacific reloaded I was going to put on here for a bitzer. Got it from the gun club when we got kicked out.
It was getting biffed.
Probably easier for someone in chch though

Smiffy i have the extra reloaders listed on farcebook market place at the moment but if they dont sell you are welcome to the pacific if you want a working one? so far I have only had enquiries about people wanting to get rid of the ones they have. and yes muzza im sure they do make a mess of bunnies at close range, but i just thought they might be better used by some one shooting trap although, i do think i may keep the 7s for a quail load.

Cheers for that but I have a couple of Lee loaders. The one with the single horizontal bar. One with bushings and one without.
Don't even use them

all good smiffy

May not be financially worth it now. But in a few years it can change.
IMO, if you see a bargin grab it.

Originally Posted by GDMP

Would there be any demand for small gauge roll crimp tools?.

Most likely a yes

Originally Posted by GDMP

Would there be any demand for small gauge roll crimp tools?.

I roll crimp 12g. It was cheaper a few years ago to buy a dedicated roll crimper from Russia than a locally produced bit that required a power drill to operate. While they might not be pretty, a home made one from a cheap old socket works also. Thats what you're up against making something with a retail price point up around the $60 or more. There will still be a market for them but maybe not so many as you would like. That being said, you can reload about anything going the roll crimp way. Then the only thing you really would want a press for is resizing the base..but it's not hard to make a ring resizer either. All this assumes low volume. If you want to load volume then a press makes most sense. For me I'd be interested in your potential offering if you do for 410 bore and 20 gauge.

if you use a break open gun you can get away with all sorts of things a magazine fed one wont tolerate/feed . I have the bits to reload both 12ga and .410 but other than something a bit different.... its cheaper and easier to buy factory.

you wouldnt bother with steel in .410 as ca nstill use lead...but buckshot however is hard to buy and really rather good in the wee gun. mixed shot sizes works best for me in the wee case,the more varied the better.

I’ve always loaded 12 gauge, what is time worth? Shot is biggest expense now