Got a shock today with ammo price

[phaedra1106]

Agreed, even with getting hulls and slugs shipped from Italy mine work out at £40/100.

[saddler]

Agreed, even with getting hulls and slugs shipped from Italy mine work out at £40/100.

& that £40 for a 100 is the price when buying the slugs AND buying in new fresh hulls....cast your own slugs & use once-fired hulls for even bigger cost savings

[CDM5]

I went to buy some 12g slugs earlier. Cheapest ones they had were £17.26 for a box of 5, yes 5

What were they, Solid Silver Werewolf Specials??

I can make my slug cartridges for about that price too, but for 50 to 70 of them - depending on primer cost & what powder I use

£3.45 ea is a joke - even if they got the box sizes mixed up that'd be £17.26 for 25 (more the normal price) & work out at 70p each - not cheap but an average price

Slug reloading is even more cost effective than rifle reloading - and at current prices depending on what kit you buy you can even get close to breaking even within the first 100 cartridges...

Want to say they were Eley, but I've only ever bought Winchester Super X from the club before (£5 for 5)

I've got a reloading press now, and a load of .38. Just need a .38 calibre rifle now :lol:
I've heard shotgun cartridges are a lot more dangerous/difficult to reload?

[saddler]

I've heard shotgun cartridges are a lot more dangerous/difficult to reload?

They ARE a totally different beast to any other reloading.

The load data out there IS very hull specific - and wad specific - and shot weight specific - THEN you have to try to find the powder that the charts say to use....

BUT

Having bought possibly every shotshell loading manual in print (& a few out-of-print ones too) , studied most of the reloading forums, I went with a mild powder charge for my slugs...

Had next to no recoil & no issues on cycling the gun as it is a pump

The dangers come with shotshell loads when folk try to get them up to really fast velocities - as the pressure curve with shotshells is a very short & it is easy to go from a safe charge to an over-pressure one in a few tenths of a grain...hence my sticking to the lower end of the spectrum & making up low recoil shotshells

The Lyman 5th Ed. Shotshell manual is good, as is the dedicated Hodgdon Shotshell Data Manual - just two among MANY books that I refer to; I can put the full list up if you want?

[Blackstuff]

picked up a slab of Diana 12g 28gram for £35

Don't think i've seen a single slab that price since 2008!

[Scotsgun]

God but its getting bad.

I caught myself thinking that you haven't got it that bad. Try paying hevi-shot shells prices for wildfowling. Its almost a relief that the season is finished.