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How many guys are shooting high volumes of clays with old guns requiring low pressure cartridges? Not too many is my guess. I absolutely love my vintage doubles and they are pretty much all I shoot in the field. If I were to take up high volume clay shooting I would choose a more practical gun for the job, one that could digest cheap promo loads when I needed it too.
Horses for courses as the saying goes.
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You ever been to the vintage SxS shoots? They shoot quite a few targets and often times with old guns. But, I agree. I will shoot my MX8 for high vol sporting clays.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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I have, I was a member of the local Vintagers for years and once in a while still shoot with them. I picked up two flats of 7/8oz RST's for grouse and clays. I am not a high volume clay shooter but for the occasional round of sporting clays with vintage guns RST's work for me.
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You best stock up on those RST’s because unless the Republicans take over fairly quickly, you may see them at $28/box and before too long from now.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Yes I remember, the GOP is the party of fiscal restraint. Heck it was as recent as the Eisenhower administration that the Republicans had an administration with a balanced budget Stay well Buzz.
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Reloading is the only way I can feed all my guns. 10-.410, five different ammo sizes with about the same number of different combinations makes for a lot of inventory of powder, wads, primers and shot. On the plus side I had fully stocked up on everything in 2020 so I am set for several more years. I still buy things at even todays crazy prices to try and keep my options open.
I always get asked do I save money? The short answer is yes but not as much as I want. The shells I load for $6.00/ box would cost $12.00/ box or more if I could find them, which I can not. The problem is with increasing component prices replacement cost when I restock will drive the cost per box to $8-9.00. Around here promo shells are running $11.00 and name brand shells $13.00 plus taxes. I save the most on smallbore shells and have no local source for 2 1/2” loads in 12 & 20 at all. Once you get a loader setup for them they are easy to crank out. With about 75,000 empties it will be a long time before I need to worry about what shells to load, only what to put into them and increasingly where to find the stuff.
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How many guys are shooting high volumes of clays with old guns requiring low pressure cartridges? Not too many is my guess. I absolutely love my vintage doubles and they are pretty much all I shoot in the field. If I were to take up high volume clay shooting I would choose a more practical gun for the job, one that could digest cheap promo loads when I needed it too.
Horses for courses as the saying goes. Steve, I don't shoot SC all that often, but I shoot a lot of recreational skeet with old guns. And I'm getting ready for some sxs shoots here in the Midwest featuring SC where I need low pressure cartridges. While reloading has become more difficult these days with various components difficult to find, I'm still able to reload enough shells to acceptably low pressure to deal with SC. Although for us 16ga fans, it's tougher than it is for someone who shoots 12s or 20s.
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Larry, My only point is that RST is catering to a very small niche of the shooting public and when name brand shells are $13 a box I do not think 15$ a box for 2&1/2" cartridges is crazy. It does get costly for anyone shooting volume, I do not deny that but I think that the price is not out of hand considering they cannot come close to meeting demand. I completely understand why folks reload, I just have too much on my plate as is to start reloading shotgun shells again.
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I didn't let $5.00 a box shells cause me to sell my loaders. They are still on the bench, will be used more when my supply of $5.00 shells runs out. I am loading 7/8 ounce 12 gauge shells and searching for light 1 1/8 ounce loads at Wal Mart at $8.42 a box. I don't shoot enough 1 1/8 ounce loads to be worth changing the loader over for them. Life is good.
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