8 ga unloading

[charlie cleveland]

was sent some 8 ga loaded industrial shells by a friend of this board...as ya ll all know they are to stout of a load to shoot in a sporting gun..these shells are winchester with the clear hull and no 2 lead shot.. first thing i done was to take a small srew driver and prize the top wad out and saved it..then poured the shot into a plastic cup then i weighed the shot 3 1/8 ounce in these load. next thing to do was take a knife and cut the roll crimped plastic end off the shell..was gona use a 10 ga shell cutter but would not slip into the hull so used the knife a 12 ga woulda probanly worked but i did not have one..next i removed a plasic sleeve that was wrapped inside the hull guess it helped hold shot to a better pattern.. then next was apaper wad had to make a long screw to get it out...then next was aplastic wad cup over the powder about 1/8 inch thick.then i poured out the powder for i did not know what kind it was.. thus i had a nice hull with primer in it... then i took the old pliars and resized the hull..then i used 21 grains of reddot powder then used the old plastic cup then the paper wad card then added 1 1/4 ounce of that no 2 lead shot in theshell then topped it off with the top card then added a 1/2 inch paper wad over the shot to hold the load in i did not roll crimp it i left it as a brass hull would be fixed.i did not glue the top wad in because i was fixing to shoot it... put it in the old parker and fired it up in the top of a tall oak..was impressed by the way the limbs shook up there...but as every body knows 21 grains of red dot will not put no hurt on a 8 ga gun so no recoil but plenty of noise and woula brought outa the top of that oak tree the biggest squirl ever born... now i ve still got a hull good enough to reload several times andclose to 2 ounce of shot left...got to say thanks to the feller that made this evening shoot possible...thanks charlie