I suspect that there are others on this site that reload for shotgun as well as centerfire rifle. I mostly load 12 and 20 gauge, and have presses for both, but I also have an old family .410, and have a set of old Lee hand tools to load for it. Without the convenience of a press, I don't do a lot of loading - just enough to go out and shoot a few woodcock with it every fall for a change of pace.
I recently decided to splurge and got a resizing die for my press to resize my .410 brass, and avoid the problems of sticky brass in the field. Once I'd sized up a bunch, I had to load them to complete the process. I dug out my .410 components and started loading. I hadn't gone very far when I ran out of powder (WW 296). That prompted me to take a look at what I paid for it.
I fear that I won't be finding a lot of Winchester 296 in the $3.35 range. I guess it's been a while since I picked up that pound of powder. The wads are a different story - Fleet Farm was getting out of the reloading business, and the cheapskate old German in me couldn't pass up bags of wads at $0.27 per bag, even if I'm not sure when I'll use them all.
Anyway - I thought some here would get a kick out of the discovery.
Joel
I recently decided to splurge and got a resizing die for my press to resize my .410 brass, and avoid the problems of sticky brass in the field. Once I'd sized up a bunch, I had to load them to complete the process. I dug out my .410 components and started loading. I hadn't gone very far when I ran out of powder (WW 296). That prompted me to take a look at what I paid for it.
I fear that I won't be finding a lot of Winchester 296 in the $3.35 range. I guess it's been a while since I picked up that pound of powder. The wads are a different story - Fleet Farm was getting out of the reloading business, and the cheapskate old German in me couldn't pass up bags of wads at $0.27 per bag, even if I'm not sure when I'll use them all.
Anyway - I thought some here would get a kick out of the discovery.
Joel
