Thread: .410 Brass Shells

Originally Posted by Bulltahr

Very nice!! Always been a bit curious about full brass cases. So assume there is no wad like the plastic ones, just primer, powder disc,wad, card and the glue. The is it a big gob on top or is it around the rim of the card? Could you put a few pics up of the reloading process please. how do you re-size or do they have plenty of taper on the case?

Yup, pretty much as simple as that! Shouldn't need to be resized for a while yet, as plenty of room still - but there are a couple of options on resizing. Need to read up on what'll be the cheapest

OK.... photo's of the process:

NOTE: Magtech brass isn't great... i had a few of the brass where the primers would rattle around and fall halfway out. Magtech are sending me more brass to say sorry for their poor tolerances. The inside dimentions of the Magtech brass is also slightly larger than the standard .410 shell, thus needing slightly larger cards and wads. The better option would be to go for Rocky Mountain Cartridge's lathed .410 brass, but i call me weird, but I get insulted if i have to pay the same amount for 50 brass as i did for the gun

PRIMER: Magtech brass use large pistol primers. Prime with a .303 shell holder.



POWDER: Browse for any .410 load. The brass shells are stronger than plastic, with a slightly larger internal diameter, so should all be peachy. Wanting to put through a chrony soon though, just to see what speeds she's doing. 14gr of AR2205.



NITRO CARDS: Put them on top of the powder and seat with a 10mm dowel, and a few firm mallet hits.





WADDING: Seat with doweling, hand firm. I have a line on my doweling that i check to make sure I've not doubled up on powder/nitrocard/wadding etc.







SHOT: I like 4's for possums, bunnies etc. 14 grains of powder, 14 grams of shot... nice and easy to remember.





OVERSHOT CARDS: These are a touch bigger than the shell, and fold up nicely at the sides against the brass walls. Seat with firm hand pressure with doweling again.





SEAL: Read about loads of ways of doing this. Wood glue, craft glue etc. I used a cool glue gun. Came with glittery glue sticks, but hey, it makes it easy to see which one's you've sealed! A pea sized (maybe a touch bigger) blob in the centre of the card, and roll it around the edges of the card with the nose of the glue gun. Whole card get's glue on it for water sealing, but 80% ends up at the edges for support.