Jim, the alternative to loading your own will be to find someone willing to load hulls and sell them to you. That said, you will be looking on average from $3.50-$5 per shell. You'd be safe thinking of the $5 per shell as the hulls are not cheap and there is labor involved swaging them plus you're using more powder and shot than the usual clays load. We load 1 1/2 oz of shot in the 3 1/4" and 3" hulls, plus the powder charge is greater than a 10g. I'm not trying to scare you off, just filling you in on the realities of 8g ammo. We don't shoot them a whole lot over the course of the year, so a few hundred shells would be more than enough for most guys. Some of us need more than that.
