handgun shotshells

[Southern Man]

Can anyone give me some 411 on reloading handgun shotshells?

I never see anything mentioned about it.

 

[BHJ]

I have not made any handgun shot shells but I did manage to reproduce some obsolete.32 rimfire black powder shotshells. It's probably pretty close to the same principal. What caliber are you wanting to do? and what type of handgun?

http://www.theoutdoorstrader.com/showthread.php?52674-oddball-chambering-can-use-ideas

 

[Southern Man]

38 special, the wife wants to learn to shoot snakes. $1.20 a pop is a lot to pay for target practice.

 

[Tomthumb]

Is this what you are lookinmg for? If you reload here is the Speer shotshell capsuls.

There are probably other sources.
http://www.natchezss.com/product.cfm?contentID=productDetail&prodID=SP8780

Speer web site. They should be able to supply loading data too.
http://www.speer-bullets.com/products/components/empty_shot_capsules.aspx

If you are not a reloader I think Lee still sells the little "kitchen table" loading kits.
Good Luck and have fun. Tomthumb.

 

[loadnplenty]

Look in the back of the speer manual it is there. They are finiky, they crack easy and you have to be carefull crimping, which is a must to keep them from creeping out of the case

 

[BHJ]

I have some ideas but any advice I could give you on making your own would be purely experimental and possibly dangerous. I'm not sure how they would work out going through the forcing cone in a revolver and they darn sure wouldn't feed from a mag in an auto. I've done quite a bit of ammo tinkering but I better leave this one alone.

 

[Going Postal]

I use the Speer capsules that Tomthumb mentioned above in .44 Magnum and .38 Special loads. I busted quite a few of the capsules before I learned to get the crimp right. As said, if you crimp them too much they will break and if you don't crimp them enough, they will "creep" out of the brass and cause lockups in your revolver, don't ask me how I know!! I use lead shot from old 12 Gauge shotgun shells. The recipe for the loads are only in the newer Speer Manuals. They are fun to shoot but are sort of a pain to load.

 

[DES365]

12.00 bucks for ten 38/357 shotshells I thought I was being robbed.....reloading must save a whole lot more.....

 

[BHJ]

Just be very careful. When shot charges are launched they compress and try to expand outward leading to higher pressures than a solid projectile of the same weight