OK, I’ll bite.
First, Stan, I was just referring to standard 7/8 to 1 ounce competition loads that people that shoot a lot run through by the thousands.
It’s not worth it to me, to acquire all the components to produce specialty 12 gauge rounds in the 2 3/4 length. My time is more valuable than the financial difference.
One $30 box of specialty 12 gauge loads more than covers my pheasant season. And I have all of the 3 inch 20 gauge cartridges that a person could ever want, so I’m not going to bother to set up to make those.
But there are lots of people that run through 1000 or more rounds a week. Especially retirees down at the ranges in Florida.
With the cost of components, it just isn’t worth the time to sit down and try to crank out that kind of shell volume. You’re doing it for $.50 a box. That’s a fools errand.
Last time I priced out 12 gauge rounds, it was 727 a box, I could buy them for 734 at Walmart.
If a person reads online in the trap, shooting world, they will read every abomination involving a shotgun and cartridge that can possibly be found.
If a person reads in the precision rifle world, there are plenty of people privately experimenting with surplus reclaimed powders
To bring it all into a circle, there are people that reload pistol cartridges with just a pinch of various rifle powders.
I cannot trade my safety or the condition of my equipment for microscopic financial improvements.
But people do it every day.
