If your time is worth anything at all why bother with handloading a anything? In my view ammo prices are a cheap as they are ever going to get, period. When you can nail 12 or 20 ga. Rem or Win cheap promo loads in the pre-dove season blowouts for less than $2 a box ($1.29-1.99 depending on the illegal immigrant help payscale), you may as well develop a skill, learn a craft, or get a part time job to make up the price differential to pay for 28s. .410 Rios are so cheap I started buying them in bulk flat deals just to say how much money I saved as I shot them up!(?). I never had any complaints from anything I hit that the shot was too soft or the patterns too thin. So far as 16 ga. goes, good luck - the gauge is still "dying." KBM