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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.

Webb

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The duration of brass cases all depends upon the attention given to them by their owner.  If they are cleaned properly at or near the conclusion of their use, then the maximum life span will result.

On the other hand, if they are neglected and left to corrode from black powder residue, the life span of brass cases will be substantially reduced. 

That is not to say that with some restorative work they may not be brought back, because they can,  unless deeply pitting has already set in.

Webb

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Brass is nice to use in a shotgun  but fact is by late 19th century most of these guns were built for paper hulls. Brass was a option and the buyer could order chambers cut for Brass. Most shooting was done with paper. Federal still loads 12 G Paper,  hulls available new unfired and as range pick up's once fired. Lot of Trap shooters prefer the Federal Paper shell.


T118 
Target Shooting, Training, Practice 12 2 3/4 / 70 1200 1 1/8 / 492 7.5 ,8  Gold Medal® Paper   

T171 
Target Shooting, Training, Practice 12 2 3/4 / 70 1235 1 1/8 / 492 8 ,7.5  Gold Medal® Handicap Paper   

T172 
Target Shooting, Training, Practice 12 2 3/4 / 70 1100 1 1/8 / 492 8 ,7.5  Gold Medal® Extra-Lite Paper (LR)   

T175 
Target Shooting, Training, Practice 12 2 3/4 / 70 1180 1 / 438 8 ,8.5  Gold Medal® Paper 


Plastic you want to avoid if using Black Powder.

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