George,

Don't speak too soon on the fact that they won't chamber in a sporting gun. A friend out in the Western Isles of Scotland had a hammer gun they'd fall right into without modification. He didn't shoot them in it of course, but he didn't have to resize the brass on them when he reloaded his goose cartridges.


Destry

yes good point
the safety ring is not an insurance policy for the foolhardy

One could open the end of the shell and take everything out, then remove the ring. Now you're ready to reload for Parker 8ga's.

Anyone with an eight gauge gun of little collector value can machine a piece of the chamber to allow the industrial shell to chamber. Industrial shells can be resized by someone who has a resizing die of the correct size.

Short answer : Don't shoot industrial 8 gauge ammo in your 8 gauge.

The hulls can be resized for our sporting guns and then reloaded with appropriate loads

you cannot use these shells as they are in a sporting gun....but you can take them apart and use the hull and primer....throw away the powder...if the shot is like no 2 or no 4 lead shot you can use the lead even the buckshot if its lead....if the slug is lead you can melt it down....to take the shell apart i cut about an 1/8 inch below the crimp take pour the shot out or use a srew to screw into a slug to pull it out of the hull then use screw to pull the wad or wads out of the hull pour powder out....you then will have to have a dye made to shrink the band around the brass base....a pipe the size of the brass hull will work if proper size use press to resize it....machine shop can easily do this....my resizer is made out of a piece of real thick pipe looks like a piston pin of a diesal engine...press the sleve onto hull i pull it resizes it turn it over and use a rachet extension or a cut off bolt stick inside of hull and press the hull out of the resizer.....you can push out the primer before doing this...the primer is just a 209 size....you can buy hulls plastic wads and paper wads from ballistic reloading and prescision reloading companys....any questions ask me or any of the other guys that reload 8 ga stuff...charlie