In my effort to be extra cheap I made some homemade snake shot.
First thing I did was grind the rim off of a piece of brass to make a tool for cutting wads out of thin cardboard. Then drill out the primer pocket so you can use a punch to push out the wads.
To make a decent cutting edge on the brass lightly chamfer the inside and outside of the case mouth.
Chuck it up in a drill or drill press and cut out some wads, I found 1600rpm cuts the best on my drill press. After 10-15 wads push them out from the rear.
I loaded 357 brass with 4.5 grains of Bullseye and a standard primer, seat two wads firmly on top of the powder charge.
In 357 brass with the charge I used it comes out holding the same amount of shot as the Speer shot capsules about 110 grains of #8 lead shot comes out to a little over 100 pellets per round.
First thing I did was grind the rim off of a piece of brass to make a tool for cutting wads out of thin cardboard. Then drill out the primer pocket so you can use a punch to push out the wads.
To make a decent cutting edge on the brass lightly chamfer the inside and outside of the case mouth.
Chuck it up in a drill or drill press and cut out some wads, I found 1600rpm cuts the best on my drill press. After 10-15 wads push them out from the rear.
I loaded 357 brass with 4.5 grains of Bullseye and a standard primer, seat two wads firmly on top of the powder charge.
In 357 brass with the charge I used it comes out holding the same amount of shot as the Speer shot capsules about 110 grains of #8 lead shot comes out to a little over 100 pellets per round.