Single use plastics in ammunition

[jaycee]

The wads are.

Not necessarily, an old fellow out at the club. picks up old wads and runs them though his wash machine and reloads them in his skeet loads, and has no trouble shooting 24 out of 25 , or even going straight.

[Gun Nut]

Yup wads are always lost, but the plastic used in the hulls can be put in your recycle bin. It's important to remove the metal base.

If you are a reloader and you own a couple different gauge shotguns. The plastic of the hulls once they’re beyond the pail, can be used for a shot sleeve in the next larger gauge gun. I use to load the old 12 gauge cases with shot. Put over shot wads in place and roll crimp them. Next you cut round the plastic just above the mental case-head, dump the shot out and you have an unslit shot-sleeve for a 10 gauge.


You don’t stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

[Snowwalker]

Which is great if your recycling program accepts Low Density Polyethylene. Not all recycling programs across the province and country are the same.

True...

[Snowwalker]

Not necessarily, an old fellow out at the club. picks up old wads and runs them though his wash machine and reloads them in his skeet loads, and has no trouble shooting 24 out of 25 , or even going straight.

Nice on the range...not so easy in the field or over water..

[Snowwalker]

If you are a reloader and you own a couple different gauge shotguns. The plastic of the hulls once they’re beyond the pail, can be used for a shot sleeve in the next larger gauge gun. I use to load the old 12 gauge cases with shot. Put over shot wads in place and roll crimp them. Next you cut round the plastic just above the mental case-head, dump the shot out and you have an unslit shot-sleeve for a 10 gauge.


You don’t stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

Poor man's slug.

[Gun Nut]

Poor man's slug.

Actually the old 10 was a cylinder bore, this was a means of adding another 15 to 20 yards for shooting waterfowl. So may it was a poor man's means of providing a tighter coke, and increasing the gun killing range.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut.

[jaycee]

Nice on the range...not so easy in the field or over water..

So, ?????

[Snowwalker]

So, ?????

Just saying works at the range, but we still could use a better solution for in the field.

[Snowwalker]

Actually the old 10 was a cylinder bore, this was a means of adding another 15 to 20 yards for shooting waterfowl. So may it was a poor man's means of providing a tighter coke, and increasing the gun killing range.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut.

Some hot candle wax would turn that in to a very mean slug.

[Gun Nut]

Some hot candle wax would turn that in to a very mean slug.

You don’t need the candle wax, if want a slug affect, all you need to do is invert the sleeve fill it full of shot and insert it into the 10 gauge shell so the the roll crimp on the 12 gauge sleeve is up - now you have “ the poor man’s slug.”


You don’t stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut