410 reloaders

[Frog4aday]

It sounds like you picked the right day to go look for shotgun hulls. Hopefully you got some good ones (Win AA and Rem STS.)

[DeepSouth]

I'll sort by color then look at brands today. See if I can return Saturday.

[DeepSouth]

Got the hulls sorted by color, brass and aluminum bases. Lot of brands I've never heard of, mostly all 7 1/2 and 8 size shot, field loads. Light rain started as I finished.

From another state's gun owners forum I found a new to me supply website that I posted in Where do you buy your reloading supplies?

 

[DeepSouth]

Met The Legend today after Petz scan for a face to face deal. Now I'm ready to load a lot of 303 Britt brass to 410 brass.

[DeepSouth]

After the West clinic visit yesterday we stopped at Sportsman's Warehouse. I planned to get another carton of Cheddite 209 primers @ $47.99. Nope, now $79.99. I'll look online for a better deal.

The 200 410 primed hulls were here when I got home.

[Frog4aday]

The price of primers (and other reloading supplies) is painful. I keep waiting for the decline back to "normal" but it is feeling more and more that these prices ARE the new norm. Glad you got some primed hulls. That'll get you started.

[DeepSouth]

Miwall and CDVS.US seem to have the best prices. CCI and Magtech small pistol and rifle primers $36 per carton. Browning 410 #8, 2 1/2" $13 per box, $129 per case.

Payday, time to place an order at Sportsman's Warehouse before paying bills.

Edited May 1 by DeepSouth

[RED333]

8 hours ago, DeepSouth said:

Payday, time to place an order at Sportsman's Warehouse before paying bills.

that sounds just like me

[DeepSouth]

Payday, I head to Sportsman's Warehouse online to order the Charles Daly 101 410 in walnut. I searched the website a few times not finding the shotgun. Filled out a form asking about it. Got a link with the shotgun on it, out of stock at the warehouse. Filled out a form to let me know when it was in stock. The waiting games has a new curve.
Looking online at SW I find the Stevens 301 camo for $230 and the Stevens 301 Turkey camo for $218 as their cheapest. I want a walnut finish not camo. Wait some more.

[DeepSouth]

Looking at Sportsman's Warehouse online they have 25# lead shot # 8 1/2 and #5 for $52, no place for an order for in store pick up. All others show $60 and have at store. Asking their help desk about it, waiting for reply.

Looking at the store on last visit all I saw was #7 1/2 @ $60.

[DeepSouth]

This thread has been pretty much copy and paste on a few websites. A member on a fishing site asked for my address, he sold his shotgun and has some reloading supplies in his way. I asked for a price, no, just want it out of my way. Tracking shows it will be delivered today.

Talking with a worker at M&M Auctions yesterday, he saw a 410 at a New Albany, MS pawn shop for $125. She might let you have it for $100 if that's all the cash you carry. May get my grandson to make the road trip with me.

[Frog4aday]

$52 for a 25lb bag of shot is pretty good these days, but it sounds like someone kindoy donated some reloading 'goods' to you, which is why the shooting community continues to surprise; the generosity is second to none.

I hope you can get that pawn shop .410 for a $100 and you'll be all set.

[DeepSouth]

I wanted #9 shot but it's $60 per 25# bag. The #8 1/2 shot is $52, might as well order it for pick up at store. The #5 shot doesn't give the option to order online. Years ago I thought about reloading 12 and 20 gauge. Bass Pro had shot on sale for $15 so I bought a bag of #6. Now if I can remember where it's stored.

Yesterday my son caught 2 king snakes near his garden and chicken coop and killed a copperhead. The young granddaughters walked the yard after school with the cricket. It's 8 acres, woods on the sides of a large clear backyard. Killed 2 copperheads and released the king snakes on 2 more. Said 1 had a fat belly a few hours later. Couldn't find the other.

Big flea market at Tupelo, MS this weekend and grandson wants to go. Could shop New Albany on the way down. I hate crowds and the walking would do me in fast. He'd get tired of pushing the wheelchair after a while. Behind a Kroger I saw 3 handicap scooters. Most likely something wrong with them. Wonder how cheap I could buy one. They don't last long on a charge so a larger battery would be needed.

[DeepSouth]

I went to the auction house to pick up my stuff, searched Senatobia for 3 pawn shops, closed or moved. Went to Batesville, one pawn shop had closed. Batesville gun & pawn had a few 410's, a double in wood, pumps and semis in camo, starting price $550. I ate some of my lunch and gagged. The trip home wasn't fun. I didn't do the round trip to other cities or to Tupelo.

Looked at a few more Utube videos on reloading shotshells. On one he was using a 1/8" pipe nipple for a decapping guide. Place it in the hull, put decapping pin in pipe and strike with hammer. I've broke a few pins in the past and saved them for later so I ground one down some. I used a 1/2" nut to sit the hull on and drove the spent primer into. Will look into making something else, let the primer flow into a catch pan or something. (Thinking: a 3/8 or 7/16" hole in a piece of 12 gauge metal and mount on a block of wood. Drill a 1/2" hole in the block, flare a piece of copper tubing and place in the hole before mounting the 12 gauge metal. Rubber or plastic tubing placed on the copper so spent primers will travel to a pan.)

On one video he drilled a washer to the right size and used it as a sizing ring. Place the washer on the hull, sit the hull in a 3/8" nipple and strike the head stamp to drive it down. What size drill bit? On another video the guy used a Mec sizing ring for that job. Mec price $20 with shipping. I have a spiral sanding kit so I drilled a 3/8" washer a bit bigger. Used a new primed hull for the right size hole. Later I found out it a 12m drill bit, $10 on amazon. One can search for a cheaper deal but I'm good for now. 

I'd rather spend time making things I can use instead of buying them. Spend time being busy instead of watching tv or things I don't really care about. I do spend a lot of time on the laptop, about half is searching for things I want or can do.

I got everything set up on my patio yesterday. A good patio chair. The worktable was a bucket with a stack of lumber on top. I decapped and sized 253 410 hulls in about 45 minutes. Will see how to remove the crimped necks without expanding them. I don't really want to cut them shorter.

[DeepSouth]

The hulls I looked at that had been expanded closed up some. Think I'll grind the shaft of the align pin so it will go deeper into the hull. Expand the crimped neck a bit more, let sit on the pin longer to see what happens. See if I can rig up something on my Lee O frame. Hands are still sore from the other night.

Grandson and I went pawn shop hunting yesterday. Byhalia, Holly Springs with no luck. New Albany pawn shop had a Stevens Mod 940A, 410, 3" chamber, choke not on barrel, stock had been shortened, no butt plate, $120 on the tag. I found a bulge 2" from end of barrel, most likely from a slug. I said $60 for it's shape, got it for $70. Full choke, Springfield Savage Stevens by internet search.