Reloading Stuff

Interesting.... Got a bunch of old reloading stuff from a Friend! We want me to reload it for him...
FIRST Thing:
Sort out the hulls! Oh MY! He must have save EVERYTHING he shot. There were a lot that were not reloadable. Some of the cheaper hulls have paper bases... These are not good for reloading. But there was a lot of Winchester AA's, a few Remmington RXPs (now called STS), and a few Federal Gold Medals. The rest went to the garage can!

SECOND Thing:
"wash" all the hulls! They must have been in his garage for years! Covered with dirt and sawdust. Here is my way of cleaning: Five galleon buck with hot water and Simple green cleaner. Let the hulls soak for a couple of hours... then mixed them around for a couple of minutes... then rinsed with Hot water. Had to rinse them several times to get the soap out.

Then dumped the hulls out into a couple of Costco boxes (flat ones). Set them out in the sun for half a day. Everytime I thought about it, I went out and stirred them up... get the water out from inside them that I might missed the first time. By the end of the day they were dry and CLEAN!

NOTE: All the hulls SMELL!... like Simple Green! Oh well.. they are clean! I then put all the hulls in boxes by kind.

Last Thing:
Figure out what loads to use. I have a pretty good ounce and a eighth for Winchester AA... Even though I usually shoot an OUNCE load... So I will start with that for him. He supplied most of the lead and the primers... So I will have to charge him for the powder. I will go price a couple of pounds of Hodgdon's Clays. I like the way it works and is very clean burning. ( http://data.hodgdon.com/shotshell_load.asp )

Also there an excellent tool on costing out your development of a box of reloaded shotgun shells.
http://www.trapshooters.com/rlcalcadv.htm
This tool is extremely helpful....
Currently in Idaho with the cost of lead shot, powder, wads and primers... The hulls are free! I am saving about 84 cents a box. Not great.. but when you shoot 4 boxes a week, it adds up! The savings is great for my 28 guage. More on that later.

Happy Shooting!