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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
looks like its about as cheap tobuy fsctory shells as too make your own loads..charlie
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Charlie,
Yes, if you want 3 1/2" or 3" 12 gauge or 20s with 1 1/2 ounces or 1 5/8 ounces in 3" shells. The shot will cost you more than you will pay for the box of five shells for the magnum guns. But if you want to make a 2 3/4" turkey killer out of an old gun with 1 1/4 ounces in 12 or 1 ounce in 20 you have to reload them yourself. Federal is not making any 2 3/4" shells unless you custom order them and they they are terribly expensive. The only ones loading 2 3/4" shells are stuffing way too much shot for our old guns since the TSS takes up so much less space they can really pack it in. But I want to shoot 1 1/4 in 12 and 1 ounce in 20 in vintage guns.
NITRO is the only one I can find making the short shells and they put 2 ounces in 2 3/4" 12 and 1 5/8 ounces in the 2 3/4" 20s.
http://www.nitrocompany.com/ammunition.html#TSSTable
https://apex-ammunition.myshopify.co...auge-1-5-8oz-9
p.s. Now if someone will figure out a TSS load that we can stuff into the 10 gauge brass that the original post showed, I will use them exclusively. That would be a good mix of old and modern.
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