UMC “Club” 10 Gauge Brass Hulls:
 

Sourced 19 of these in nice condition. They are 2-3/4”, will work in two of my 10’s. Just a bit long for the “Short 10”. After a tumble in stainless pins & Dawn detergent they’ll look like new. Manufactured from 1885-1910. They were a bit less expensive than the modern reproductions. It would be nice to find some 3” ones, I’m not holding my breath for those to show up any time soon. You never know.

Nice!!! In 1887 the CLUB quality 10-gauge NPEs were the same price for 2 5/8-, 2 3/4- & 2 7/8-inch. One had to go to the First Quality NPEs for the 3 to 3 1/4-inch 10-gauge NPEs.

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CLUB 10-gauge NPEs were still 8 cents in 1910 --

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I’d like to have 25 or so of the 10’s but 25-50 of the 8 gauge would be awesome as well .

There was a box of 8 ga brass UMC hulls that sold on gb a few months back for about $250, I got a friend who made a 209 conversion setup he uses for reaming 8 ga brass shells accept a 209 primer.

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About three or so hours tumbling in the wet pins brought them back pretty well. I doubt they looked much better 120 years ago.

The WIN brass hulls I got from Bill Joliff I put in the sonic cleaner for an hour or so then tumbled them in walnut hills for a couple hours . I wasn’t satisfied with the exterior until I used a brass carding wheel on them . The insides have been giving me trouble . I wanna put plastic donuts in the bottom to get smokeless up even with the primer but I’m having difficulty getting them to stay in when just popping primers . I realize I can load BP and not have to deal with that I just prefer not to shoot BP .

Take this for what it cost you, but I saw a video on YouTube with a guy loading smokeless powder in solid brass hulls and it seemed to work. His approach to the donut problem was to use hot glue as a base wad. How many loadings the wad lasted wasn't mentioned.

Bruce, did you "pop" the primers (fire them)? Did they all go off?

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I only removed them and threw them away. Could have put them in an antique primer tin.
When I was 13 or 14, learning to load shotgun shells, my mentor said not to fire primers in unloaded hulls. He said that they back out of the brass and that wasn’t recommended. So I never did.