Quote:Problem with Brass is it's expensive if you load a lot of shells at one time. Boats
Here are the facts, which are verifiable should you be a penny counter.
Ballistics Products Inc. offers "Magtech" brand brass shotshells in seven different bore sizes at $24.99 for a 25 count box, plus shipping, which comes out at approximately $1.20 per shell.
Consider that these cases if properly cared for and cleaned will probable give a usage of a minimum of 50-75 or more reloads. Should you get 100 shots per shell the unit cost would be .012 Cents per shot.
Do you consider .012 Cents per shot EXPENSIVE for the advantages achieved by using the brass case?
I certainly do not, and my suspicion is that if you can afford the purchase price of a nice vintage S X S shotgun, you will not object to use brass shotshells rather than trimmed down plastic hulls at 4 or 5 Cents per shot.
I can appreciate that some folks go to an event and expend 100 or more shotshells, but Vintage shotgunners, for the most part, go for the QUALITY of the event, as opposed to the QUANTITY.
Brass shotshells add to that quality, but that is often times over-the-head of "shoot em up" guy who is a more single dimensional in the moment thinker.
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