Before I moved back to Texas, I picked up lead shot any time it was $18.00 or less per 25 lb bag. I also got 400 lbs of reclaimed shot from a friend for something like $10/25 lbs. A friend and I would pay the local trappers $10 to pick up all of the STS hulls the local youth group left. I ended up with about 10k 12 ga. STS hulls and maybe 3000 20 ga hulls. Bought 32 lbs of powder and 15k of primers all before everything went to he!! price-wise. I'm still loading a box of 12 ga for about $2.50 / box and 20 ga a bit less than that.
I would REALLY hate to have to try and make it cost-effective with the price of shot and powder now.


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