Without a scale would be cutting it too close

You may have heard about the cut down rounds for shotguns they are around a inch and a half long and come in every type of round to. without the wadding powder and shot doesn't take up much room. You can buy them and make them so many people buy them because you can put twice the amount of shells in your tube. Anyone that owns a shotgun should look them up there is even flashbangs. I hope i didn't waste our time and list a bunch of crap you already know about now. Either way good luck

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@@jrcostilla9105 they are called "mini shells"

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Hi is this george ulicu.. I just read your reply your very knowledgable I have been gun collector and shooter all my life just now wanting to learn about reloading can't wait plus want to learn black powder guns shooting everything

Thanks. Happy to help.

Mr Longshanks Everything he is using is Stainless steel or aluminum, both of those metals will not spark, no worries.

Better not to go with plastics. Sometimes they can build up a static charge which can ignite powder

Ahh, I had to reread your comment and yes. I use a small hollow pipe so that nothing is resting on the primer. The pipe rests on the area around the primer.

good idea

great tip on the alcohol!

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Thanks Doug!

Thanks an bunch!

Thanks! I can't take credit for the de-priming and priming method though, I learned that from Mike Beliveau's channel (Duelist1954).

MrTudenom, that guy's great!

That's true. Most reloading components can be purchased and shipped in Canada as long as you use a courier and not Canada Post for explosive materials. You have to do your homework though and make arrangements ahead of time with the seller and the courier. Some couriers require MSDS sheets to be placed on the package (you'll have to arrange this with the seller), some require someone to sign off on delivery, and most charge extra fees for dangerous materials. Canpar seems to be a favorite for shipping these sorts of things, but you have to make sure they have a depot in your town (most small towns don't). If they can't catch you at home them they will return the shipment to the seller.

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Hi Ibrahim. Shotshells like really fast powders.

Reloading the BP shotgun shells is very simple. As you can see from this video, no special equipment is needed.

Hello Nchum, thanks for the question. I’m not sure pellet stacking is going to help with accuracy with this method of re-loading shot shells. The method I demonstrate is really crude and likely extremely inaccurate. You could try stacking the pellets, but since there’s no cushioning wad the pellets are going from 0 to very fast in an instant, the G forces they go through are likely to deform the pellets and wreck your carefully placed stack. The seal is pretty weak too, so even though the shot is in a cup there’s a chance some of the pellets at the base are being heated and possibly melted together. I’ve never shot the demonstrated load through a crono, but I’m guessing the velocity is inconsistent due to the “by feel” method I use to compress the powder, plus the shell is not crimped. Not only that but there isn’t much variability in burn rate for black powder, at least compared to smokeless, so it’s difficult to fine tune for your particular shotgun. However, you might have better luck if you use a shotgun with more choke, you could also use a more traditional fibre wad and double card wad to seal the load from your powder better. You could also experiment with compression and crimps if you have a re-loading press. The best option would be to abandon black powder all together and seek out information on smokeless loads for your particular shotgun. Message boards are the perfect place to find old gray haired pro’s who have reloaded and shot millions of rounds. They tend to be very eager to help a guy out and can give you all kinds of tips on powder, wad, and shot combinations.

I have some shells that have fired no problems up to 12 months or more after loading, but I live in a relatively dry environment. I suppose moisture would be the biggest threat to reliability since the shells are not well sealed. If you live in a coastal or tropical environment with high humidity then it might be something to worry about. But if they're stored in a dry space then you should be good for years.

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I've never reloaded paper shotgun shells myself, but from what I understand they were standard at one time and people reloaded them. I expect the loading procedure is the same, but it would be best to go to a shotgun reloading message board and see if you can get some tips from an old pro. He might save you some grief! The glue is almost always ejected out with the shot but every once and a while I'll have a small amount left on the inside of the shotshell after firing. I soak the fired shells in soapy water after a shoot to stop black powder corrosion, the glue peels off easily after soaking for a few hours. This won't work well with paper hulls obviously, but you should be able to scrape any remaining glue off.

I just loaded up a box of paper shells yesterday and trimmed the hulls with an old trimmer worked out great and look good too

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I've never tried myself, but I've seen a video where a guy punches out cardboard wads from a banana box using a 3/4" gasket punch. The box is a bit waxy and is made of heavier than standard material, so I expect it works pretty well. It's probably better to go with a traditional fiber wad, but if your shoot is next week then it might be an option.

Oh yeah....lavender blue is perfectly acceptable, as long as it isn't mint green. Mint green is for scallywags, delinquents, and reprobates.

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Hi James (Buzz), thanks for the sub! Most BB pellets I know of are lead with plating on them, so it should be safe to use them. I don't think the plating will do any harm, the shot in enclosed in the wad cup as it travels down the barrel, so it shouldn't come in contact, and even if it did I doubt any modern shotgun barrel would see damage. I'm thinking the plating would be too soft compared to the barrel steel. You could use the methods shown to replace the primer and seal the top of the shot shell, but you would have to look up a suitable smokeless powder/wad/shot recipe from a reloading manual. The volume of powder shown in the video is specific to black powder and would be hugely excessive in a smokeless powder load

I would say don't use homemade black powder in a new couch gun as sulfur will mess with your barrel unless you want to clean it after every time you shoot it. Yes you could use BBs as used in BB guns but the range might not like it because you could do more damage then there range can take because they're steel projectiles.

you might have a point! Thanks for the tip Dave.

TheDave570 stainless steel does not spark

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plastic is not recommended per the LEE manual for their scoops, measures, or funnels due to static of the plastic and black powder incompatibility. OK for nitrocellulose based though.

No plastic only very conductive metals.

2.5 drams . take 2.5 x 27.3 = 68.25 grains of powder . I would suggest getting a dram/ounce dipper . it makes loading a shotgun shell or even a muzzleloading shotgun easier.

thanks dude

Can do. I should be able to hit the range this weekend and I'll post the results.

Thanks for good infomation

That would be an interesting project, though I have seen quite a few videos where they say things like "make in small batches so you don't blow your face off if things go wrong". That scares me a bit, I'd like to keep my face the way it is, I'm rather fond of it seeing that I've had it my whole life. Also, it's illegal to make your own black powder in Canada, so there's that getting in the way as well.

thankfully I live in the US, and will soon be on a larger property than I am now so i won't draw concern by lighting random powders on fire in the yard. should probably make small batches like you said until I can get something consistent before I even think of loading shells with it

Hi Toby. I wouldn't recommend it, but I have heard of people doing this with slugs, and you probably could do it with shot as well as long as the shot weight was the same, but it would be a bit risky. You might also find that the crimp might not work out well depending on the size of the shot you're using. The problem with factory ammo is that you don't know what type of powder they are using, so you can never reference a reloading manual to check your load to make sure it's safe. Black powder is easy since it's so bulky (it's hard to overload) but smokeless is a different story and the chance of a face relocating kaboom is much higher.

MrTudenom if I were to make sure the powder in the cartridges was black powder would that work or is it still dangerous?

At 10¢ a shot it's not too bad, plus you can reload shells a lot faster/efficient than he's showing.

I use 5/8" steel bearing-balls, usually wrapped in thin cardboard, soaked, and swaged around the ball to smooth it over. Very much less recoil by the lesser weight.

Match heads are not black powder or an alternative to black powder. What you are suggesting is quite dangerous and could give you unpredictable results including damage to your shotgun or yourself or bystanders.

100 grains? Now that's a load! The pellets are rare up here where I live and I've never used them, so unfortunately I can't give you any good advice. How close are the pellets diameter compared to the bore diameter they are made for? Do they make pellets large enough to fit a bore as big in diameter as a 12 gauge? I'm thinking that would be in the .700 to .750 caliber range minus the thickness of the shell walls.

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DONT TREAD ON ME !!! Absolutely not. The pellets are usually for 50 caliber. The empty space between the pellet and the case would cause a explosion.

Yup, some of my shells have been reloaded and fired a few times. I have a really hard look at them before reloading them a third time and throw out any that look suspect. I don't bother re using them after the third reloading.