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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Purple Hulls |
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Sun Jan 29, 2017 9:20 pm
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| What factory loaded shells come with purple hulls? I know Federal and Herter's do. What else? |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:43 am
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:29 am
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| That the three to the best of my knowledge. But that's not saying much. |
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Interested in older US made SxS and upland hunting. New to reloading shot shells and looking for info and advice. |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:48 am
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| Estate also , which is part of FED ... just be aware that Estate has gone back to the plastic, Chedd syle case and doesn't have the fibre base wad anymore , AGAIN !! |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:49 pm
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| 16gaDavis wrote: |
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Estate also , which is part of FED ... just be aware that Estate has gone back to the plastic, Chedd syle case and doesn't have the fibre base wad anymore , AGAIN !!
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Thanks for the update my friend. I'm very glad to hear Estate has gone back to hulls w/ plastic base wads. Being a dyed in the wool scrounger, I never leave a discarded 16 ga. hull on the ground or in the discarded hull bucket. All too often, discarded hulls get wet from rain or snow. Regardless, it's mine once I get my grubby li'l paws on it.  I can check it out after I stash it in my pocket.  Any wet hulls w/ plastic base wads might be salvageable. Any wet hulls w/ fibre or rolled paper base wads get tossed.
Hulls w/ plastic base wads which have gotten snow or water in them can be dried out and reloaded if they haven't sat wet long enough to rust or corrode the steel or brass rims. During the heating season, I put them in a tray and sit them on my furnace in the basement until they are dry. Sitting them in warm sunshine dries them out nicely when it's warm out. Easy peasy. 
Once hulls w/ fibre or the rolled paper base wads used in Federal and older Estate hulls get wet inside, the hulls are ruined. These type base wads absorb moisture like a sponge. Once wet, they swell. When they dry out, they shrink and are no longer tightly secured inside the rims. They can be dislodged when reloaded and fired. That can set up a disaster for our guns and ourselves if we don't catch the obstacle in the barrel in time.
None for me thanks. I'll take plastic base wads over fiber ones every time. Plastic good!!! Fibre bad!!!  |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 2:24 pm
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| Way back in the day all hulls had paper basewads and we picked them up. I believe it was Lyman that published instructions on how to dry them. That being said I pitch the wet Federals too. |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:40 pm
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| 16gaDavis wrote: |
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Estate also , which is part of FED ... just be aware that Estate has gone back to the plastic, Chedd syle case and doesn't have the fibre base wad anymore , AGAIN !!
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Are the ones with plastic base wads purple ? |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:26 pm
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| Ohio Wirehair wrote: |
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Way back in the day all hulls had paper basewads and we picked them up. I believe it was Lyman that published instructions on how to dry them. That being said I pitch the wet Federals too.
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The instructions for my mec 400 has a section all about drying hulls in the oven. |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:35 pm
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| Holy crap! That's what I learned to load on. That things older then you are by a lot. |
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:39 pm
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:59 am
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| I put them in a clothes net and hang directly over the hot air vent in the bathroom . They are QUITE dry by the time I remember that I put them there !! |
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 12:55 pm
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| Ohio Wirehair wrote: |
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Way back in the day all hulls had paper basewads and we picked them up. I believe it was Lyman that published instructions on how to dry them. That being said I pitch the wet Federals too.
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I also cut my shot shell reloading teeth using hulls w/ compressed fibre or rolled paper base wads back in the day. These old polyformed hulls were all that was available to me at the time. I was also as uninformed about reloading as a three day old, so the badly dated info in the old instruction manuals and pamphlets I had on hand seemed okay to follow. After all, it was in print, so I could trust it. Yeah, right.
I probably did a lot of risky and questionable things at that time w/o realizing it--like picking up old wet and ruined hulls w/ paper or fibre base wads and happily loading them up and shooting them after I dried them out as directed by the old info. Ignorance is bliss so they say. It's also a poor way to go about reloading. But I've been dumb lucky all of my life it seems, so nothing bad happened during those ignorantly happy years.
Thirty odd years or more down the line, I have gleaned enough info and knowledge to know I was one lucky as hell dude not to have blown my dumb as a stump hands off in the past like some unlucky folks have. So now, I too toss the wet ones w/o plastic base wads and I still have my hands intact. Well...mostly. I tend to be a bit careless where I put me fingies at times. |
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