I am just getting established here on RU-vid with my Channel. DKHTactical will be a Channel devoted to Reloading - specifically Shotshell Reloading (Buckshot) and Wax Slugs. I am a 20 year Navy Veteran who currently makes a living as a DoD Contractor, but my passion and spare time are pretty much devoted to shooting, and reloading. I recently completed a Gunsmithing and Certified Armorer's Course, and I have taken several NRA classes - to include Metallic and Shotshell Reloading, and Bullet Casting. I reclaim LEAD from local ranges, clean it, melt it down, flux it, and cast into ingots for use in my Bottom-Pour Lead Pot. I sell LEAD on eBay, and will soon be marketing some items I am currently manufacturing for the purpose of Hand Loading Buckshot for 20 and 12 Gauge, as well as items for creating Wax Slugs. You can contact me at dkhanlin@gmail.com or dkhtactical@gmail.com if you are interested in any of the items I will be selling.
You are doing really good if you can gross 100 pounds every hour or hour and a half DIGGING and SIFTING them out of a dirt backstop. Not like a indoor range running through a strawberry patch where every shovel is a keeper. Ok, so say you are lazy and one of these sorry excuses who feels their time is worth so much money (usually very overestimated). Good USABLE bullet lead is worth $2.50 - $3.50 per pound now. Do the math and you will come out way ahead of the game.
Figure out a way to overlay grid plate on shell holder plate (with a boundary shim height at clearance needed for roll crimping and you could do entire plate at once w/o handling each shell.
Couldn't you use a Dremel cut-off wheel to cut slots in a spoon (hot wax drainage) for shot refill, then top off with wax? Spoons could stay in wax pot between fillings (heat absorption) lessening wax accumulation.
I reload shotgun for hunting and shotgun sports. since ive been watching some you tube vids i see these kind of vids all the time now. - I dont doube its not illegal to load and shoot one of these for fun in the desert but, one has to wonder of the legality of using one for self defense.
Excellent work, very professional. You said you 3d printed the shot shell cutters?. Now all you need is a few Coates of boiled linseed oil on that Birch wood bench top, a little buffing with some "0000" steel wool, and you'll have a bullet proof, liquid resistant bench top!. 👍
Can't get a round in ky the hogs get em all before I can get to the store. I just want to squirrel hunt but they making money. I hope they have to eat all of em
Used to do something similar to this in the New Zealand Forest Service back in the early 60's when we didn't have the money to buy SG's. Convert duck shot into pig ammo. We prized open the cartridge top, left the shot in place and poured candle wax in. Not pretty but effective......
I just skip the step of putting shot in wax. I load my shot as much as I want with measured dippers then pour the wax in. The liquid wax will fill all the voids.
