It's hard to justify loading 12 and 20ga. target loads these days with the price of shot in the $40-$50 range. However it makes sense for the 28ga. and 410. I still load my shells however because I don't buy my shot, I make it. That puts me around $1.50/box for 1 oz. skeet loads. I've made enough shot with my Littleton shot maker to sell enough to pay for the machine. Now everything I make costs me virtually nothing! I can make 45lbs. and hour and I've gotten the process down well enough that my shot looks and shoots as well as factory shot. The targets can't tell the difference! I did finally break down and buy some factory 12ga. pheasant hunting loads as one of our local gun shops closed and were selling them for 50% discounts.
Happy shotgunning!
Elk Country
