I'm loving this thread! It addresses availability AND affordability! I'm a total Newbie and have recently found a gun club that allows visitors to shoot Trap, Skeet & Clays 3 days a week. Sounds like a great opportunity for me to learn to use my new shotgun. Especially since I can now buy birdshot for about 1/4 the price of 9mm! Oh yea, I can still GET birdshot! (My LGS was on the news saying tonight saying "Your time would be better spent trying to buy a Unicorn instead of 9mm ammo!")
Finally- my question.
How much will it cost me to simply pick up my fired shells, buy some lead to melt and reload those fired shells with the slugs you guys are talking about? I assume I'll need to use the smaller powder charge since some of these shells are "low Brass".
This would avoid needing to cut off the factory crimp & I assume the shells would still be 2-3/4" after they're reloaded with the slugs.
BTW- I had so much fun firing my new Mossberg 500 Persuader 20" the other day (Target rounds, #4 buckshot, 00 buckshot, and slugs) that I picked up a Mossberg 500 Combo with the 24" rifled barrel and the 28" barrel with the chokes! GOOD TIMES!
Finally- my question.
How much will it cost me to simply pick up my fired shells, buy some lead to melt and reload those fired shells with the slugs you guys are talking about? I assume I'll need to use the smaller powder charge since some of these shells are "low Brass".
This would avoid needing to cut off the factory crimp & I assume the shells would still be 2-3/4" after they're reloaded with the slugs.
BTW- I had so much fun firing my new Mossberg 500 Persuader 20" the other day (Target rounds, #4 buckshot, 00 buckshot, and slugs) that I picked up a Mossberg 500 Combo with the 24" rifled barrel and the 28" barrel with the chokes! GOOD TIMES!