Groovy Mike

I have to buy lead shot to load for trap at +/- $2 per pound if I buy it retail or have it shipped to me. But I can buy scrap lead to pour slugs at 50 cents per pound (or get it free in wheel weight form). The idea of pouring shot into the melting pot is like throwing away $1.50 per pound to do it - that's throwing away $37.50 per 25 pound bag of shot!!! If I want to convert that scrap lead to small shot I need to swap it to a guy with a shotmaker. I give him 2 pounds of lead for one pound of shot back. So his shot costs me $1 per pound but it is not as good as factory made shot since

Please do not destroy expensive lead shot to make slugs! Use scrap lead at ~ 50 cents per pound from any salvage yard! Tell you what - send ME your lead shot and I'll send you back equal weight in slugs! Anybody use a 69 cal round ball mold?

Had it happen on my 303 British 20 years ago while deer were walking in front of me during hunting season! Yes, I did get the deer

Rifle length.

I'd like to put a rail and vertical foregrip on my PTR91. Anybody have spare parts laying around they don't need top dollar for?

No - not even close. As for the Sten mags - they fit some of the 9mm version of the Thompson like Commando Arms Mk9. Some tommy guns were made to accept the WW2 grease gun mags too. It just depends on which tommy gun you've got. I'd love to pick up another Commando Arms Mk9 - 9mm is just as fun to shoot at the range as 45 but at half the cost!

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I tried the full choke and extra full choke on the 24 inch barrel Saiga at trap last week. It now busts birds as well as the Browning I love. I couldn't be more pleased. Now to test pattern turkey and goose loads for the fall

I tried the full choke and extra full choke on the 24 inch barrel Saiga at trap last week. It now busts birds as well as the Browning I love. I couldn't be more pleased. Now to test pattern turkey and goose loads for the fall

All set now, I ordered the 3 pack.

I like Herco for buckshot

Been 10 years since I crunched the numbers but at that time factory loaded 375 H&H was $1 per cartridge and I could reload it for about 40 cents. The first 400 cartridges paid for my reloading set up. I was shooting a lot in prep for my frist African hunt. So every cartridge loaded after the first 2 months represents savings. Saving money that I would otherwise spend is the same as making profit. I can not even fathom how many cartrdiges of various chamberings I have loaded in the past decade. 400 shotgun shells a week to shoot trap times several months per year....plus rifle, plus p

Sux, but our lives are enriched by those we love. The gain is worth the pain.

Nobody waterfowls with a Saiga 12 and a choke?

I doubt I'll ever buy factory loaded centerfire ammo again. Just no sense in paying more for it.

Anybody have a choke for the S12 that can handle steel shot for waterfowling?

Anybody have a choke and adapter they don't want anymore? Figured I should ask here before I pay full retail.

You pay the shipping I'll sell you several thousand at 2 cents each.

That don't make no sense at all.

I'm debating sinking teh $100 in the polychoke or buying one from AK builder.....

I have swum for them, but then I bought a canoe.....

Thanks. Just confirming. BTW - don't forget - goose season opens September 1st!

This is exactly right. I have reloaded and fired thousands of dented cases multiple times from multiple firearms. As a side note - neither the large dent or the fluted chamber marks from HK and Cetme style rifles harm the brass for reloading either. If you don't want to use them, I'd be happy to pay the shipping from you to me and use them myself.

Yeoldetool - are you reading that the same way that I do then? 5+1 is legal in NY for everything except waterfowl?