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Hey folks i was wondering if they still make paper shells for reloading..or if you can reload older ones?
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The answer is maybe and yes. It all depends on the gauge you are looking for. We had quite a discussion about 16ga paper hulls a while back. Almost placed our own special order. In the end, Mike Graf ordered them and now sells them through his website: http://www.grafs.com/shotshell/414 Grafs also carries 12ga paper hulls. Ballistic Products makes a roll crimping tool that is worthwhile: http://shop2.mailordercentral.com/bpicart/searchprods.aspFor cards and wads Circle Fly is very good: http://www.circlefly.com/html/products.html I am sure there are other vendors. Someone should offer a suggestion soon. Pete
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I bought 3,000 of the 16 gauge Cheddite paper hulls from Graf's.
They are a great loading hull, but you only get 3 to 4 reloads, before they burn through at the metal base.
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Paper is good for when you want to go vintage. However, for run-of-the-mill shooting, plastic is much better.
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Federal Paper 12 shells are hard to beat for the 12 gauge. I have thousands of them. It seems they were the shell of choice several years ago by the Olympic teams for practice. They had them by the tens of thousands. I laid in a lifetime supply. Nothing says classic hunting better than the smell of Red Dot in a paper Federal hull on a crisp morning. I cut them down to 2 1/2 and 2" for special needs. They load great and just look right in a double gun.
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Fed paper, 17 grains of red dot, SO wad, 1 oz hard shot and a 209 primer. Shoots great, very mild recoil, and is the best smell in shooting!
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Agreed. If I had unlimited funds, I'd shoot nothing but Federal paper.
The Fiocchi paper is a very good trap load, cheaper than Federal, but the hulls are worthless for reloading.
Fiocchi, Eley, and Nobel paper shells of recent manufacture all have a plastic basewad that sort of defeats the paper shell mystique - they don't have that Federal paper smell.
Alas.. STS is undoubtedly 'best', but the Federal paper loads are excellent.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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RST has paper, and nice stuff it is.
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Federal was apparently very generous in supplying International shooters for quite a while. That is apparently the source of empties that KYJon mentions. A good friend who was on the U.S. Junior Team then the Development Team used to get mysterious deliveries on an irregular basis. However, the wholesale price of today's Federal papers is beyond what most of us want to spend on "big three" ammunition. It is better to reload than to buy new!
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The 16 gauge Cheddite hulls from Graf's have a plastic base wad also. These are the same hulls that RST uses.
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