question after fact

[Harry Collins]

Out of deference to the age of my guns and my shoulder I only shoot 1 1/4 oz loads out of my 10 gauges and when I am duck hunting with my 12 gauges. With a 12 gauge I much prefer to shoot 7/8 oz or 1 oz loads at about 1150 fps. They kill wonderfully and they break targets plus they are cheeper to reload and very easy on the shoulder when shooting 100+ shells a day. I have few #1 frame Parkers that are very light and the 7/8 oz load really shines through these guns when busting alot of caps.

Harry

[Dollar Grade]

I have been loading up old paper hulls with BP and would like to get some 12 and 16 ga brass hulls. Do these need to be full length resized if you are shooting them in different guns ?? I have some old brass Alcan 10 ga shells that will not chamber in any 10's I have owned. Can they be resized in a MEC single stage press ? I just need to order a few boxes of Alcan brass and get going. The hammer double brass uses 209 primers but they are a little more $$.

Kurt

[Bill Murphy]

Kurt, I would never shoot brass cases in more than one gun unless the guns had identical chambers. If the cases need resizing, quit using that lot of cases in the smaller chambered gun and get some new cases for that particular gun. We don't want to be "working" brass cases every time we load them. They will not put up with much of that. The same goes for chamber inserts that are relatively thin, like 8 to 10 or 10 to 12. If you shoot a heavy load in a thin chamber insert, it will expand and not fit in the smaller chambered gun any more. I have been bitten by that dog before and now dedicate thin chamber inserts to one gun only.