Used Shotshell Hulls - Toss or Keep?

[Nodonutz]

I'm in the process of packing up for our pending move from ND to IN ( Alexandria area). Getting STOKED!!! I have several plastic grocery bags full of spent 20ga and 12ga hulls. Mostly pick ups from shooting skeet on the farm and hunting. I was going to toss 'em, but figured if anyone wanted them, I could find the space and meet up sometime in the Spring. I do not reload, yet, and if I do it would be rifle/pistol. Just hate to waste them. None of my buddies out here reload shotshells.

Thanks - This site is awesome!
ND in ND

 

[CLowe]

I always save mine ,
Was going to toss a bunch a few years back , then ran into a buddy that was reloading .
Gave them to him , he in return loaded me up a few boxes of each for free .
Karma can be a good thing .

 

[Drail]

Save the brass rimmed ones - especially the high brass. Recycle the steel or alum. ones - they are pretty much a one-shot deal. Buy only brass if you have a choice. Welcome to the Hoosier Territory.

 

[swmp9jrm]

Save the brass rimmed ones - especially the high brass. Recycle the steel or alum. ones - they are pretty much a one-shot deal. Buy only brass if you have a choice. Welcome to the Hoosier Territory.

I've reloaded thousands of Remington Gun Club low steel hulls multiple times - most often get at least 4-6 reloads before I even think about tossing them.

For the OP: If you think you'll ever start reloading, you can never have enough hulls.

 

[bigretic]

I've reloaded thousands of Remington Gun Club low steel hulls multiple times - most often get at least 4-6 reloads before I even think about tossing them.

For the OP: If you think you'll ever start reloading, you can never have enough hulls.

same here.
kid shoots ata. I load gun clubs a ton for him they are the best. I also load regular federals, but don't get as many out of those before the primer pocket stretches out. AA's are good, but they run different that most others.

 

[Nodonutz]

Thanks for the input... Just getting things organized for the move - hopefully by March. Been getting rid of stuff to save time and space. Still have things in boxes from when we moved to ND from CA 5 years ago!

 

[davedolli]

I reload the Federals with paper base wads once or maybe twice then pitch. Any of the Remington hulls, I load until the petals start to split, usually 8 -10 times, for trap.

Dave

 

[tallend]

Nodonutz
Welcome to the Hoosier State
Alexandria has a nice 4 trap range,and a small rifle/pistol range---Anderson(Fall Creek Valley CC )has a (5) lighted trap range ---a rifle/Pistol range--10yd,25yd,50yd,100yd,and soon a 200yd range,--BP matches,HiPower matches,22 matches,classes in Basic Pistol,Personal Protection in the home,etc etc. ---There are several shooting ranges within 50 miles of Alex.
I managed a trap range for 15 years,and shot registered trap(semi-retired)----I still have 4,35 gal trash barrels full of once fired AAs(red gold)

tallend

 

[mlockhart]

Find a local junior program and donate them. Welcome to Indiana. I've spent a few winters in ND, January is a good time to move out of there. I did enjoy the summers up there but 3 weeks of summer didn't seem long enough!

 

[Nodonutz]

Find a local junior program and donate them. Welcome to Indiana. I've spent a few winters in ND, January is a good time to move out of there. I did enjoy the summers up there but 3 weeks of summer didn't seem long enough!

Great idea ! I'll keep them. A friend in CA reloads for a local skeet club which his grand-daughter belongs to, and he coaches. Leroy is a retired LEO and was a bit of a youtube celeb a couple years back from an old video he made 'back in the day', re: 'assault rifles':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXYK4MNY4m0
Looking more like Feb-March move, the heart of winter. Moved from CA to ND 5 years and 6 winters ago. The first 2 were HORRID - since then more cold than snow, but stoopid cold last 2 - and loooooong. My biggest concern is for the humid summers I am told you get. We may have a week or 2, at most, of humid days. Most of the time the spring to fall weather isn't too bad.

 

[calcot7]

As long as the hulls are 1 piece plastic, compression formed with a brass base wrap it really doesn't matter if they are high or low base. You can load a heavy field load in a WW-AA case originally intended for a light skeet load.

Save the brass rimmed ones - especially the high brass. Recycle the steel or alum. ones - they are pretty much a one-shot deal. Buy only brass if you have a choice. Welcome to the Hoosier Territory.

 

[Leo]

I reload the Federals with paper base wads once or maybe twice then pitch. Any of the Remington hulls, I load until the petals start to split, usually 8 -10 times, for trap.

Dave

+1 Good advice given. I would add to go through the reloading data and wad availablity. A lot of the no name discount shells do not have wads or data readily available. I just pitch anything that would be too much trouble to have proper components and data. I have gotten so lazy lately if they are not Remington Gun clubs, STS or Nitro 27's I give them away. One hull, one wad, one powder, one primer. Simple.

 

[Nodonutz]

One hull, one wad, one powder, one primer. Simple.

Sounds 'one-derful'