Good advice from 2P and Lagopus. My only disagreement is with the loading of Brass shells at all. The best thing to do with brass shells is to sell them on ebay. A few years ago someone left 10 Remington brass shells on the range near my house. I grabbed them up and sold them for $3 each, on ebay. Later I bought a case of Magtech brass from Graf's and got all equipped up to load them for a Parker I had with .750" bores. After loading one box, cleaning, gluing the overshot card in and cleaning again, I sold the whole mess to someone in New York. Black powder loading is easy enough in paper or plastic shells but loading brass shotgun shells is something I do not have time for. JMO, of course.