Armory Sponsor
Posted: 3/20/2014 4:37:37 PM EDT
| does anyone reload short brass? or just high brass. if short brass can be loaded, is there any disadvantages? |
| All I load is the lower brass. I use them to shoot clays. I loaded on a single stage MEC for a while. Went to the MEC progressive and haven't regretted it one bit. Really fast to load up some boxes for practice. If I had a sizing die for the higher brass, I would use that too. |
|
High brass is just marketing anymore. Forget about it as a distinction.
Sadly, the Winchester compression formed hull is dead and gone. For the last decade or so they have been AAHS - basically a 2-piece hull similar to the euro hulls. The Win AAHS and the Remington Premier/STS/Nitro hulls are still brass. Maybe Fed Gold Medal also, I'm not sure about that as I don't load them. Winchester Universals, Rem Gun Clubs, Estates, Rios, Kemen, Kents, etc. are all steel or brass washed steel bases. What you do want to watch for if you're collecting hulls is the basewad. Some hulls have a fiber or paper basewad that can't be re-loaded if they have gotten wet. Most all of the euro hulls are 2-piece hulls. The basewad is a separate chunk of plastic and can come loose, the concern being that a loose basewad could be ejected and lodge in the barrel causing an obstruction on the following shot. Early AAHS hulls were supposed to have this problem, more recent versions don't seem to. There is a lot of discussion of this from time to time on the shotgun websites. Most people seem to think if you reload the eurotrash hulls, load them once and throw them away. There are, of course, others who say BS and load the crap out of them. |
|
Quoted:
ok, i was told nobody reloaded short brass. I was just wondering why Well as you probably realize by now you were told wrong. Trap shooter shoot millions of low brass trap reloads each year and a lot of low brass hulls are used in 7/8 and 1 ounce waterfowl loads. I use Win AA target hulls to load both slug and Buck shot with no problems as well. High brass / low brass is from the days of paper hulls were the igniting powder burned pin holes through the paper. Low brass hulls were used for target loads and had just enough brass base to cover the area where the powder sets and basically hides the pin holes. High brass was used in hunting type loads as the brass needed to be higher to cover the area taken up by the heaver powder charges. As Active showed there really doesn’t need to be any brass up the side of modern plastic hulls as the powder doesn’t burn through the plastic like it does with paper. |
Armory Sponsor