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In early November 2004, you could purchase a box of 25 12-gauge 2-3/4-inch Kent Multi-Sport Game & Clay shells for $3.95 from Ballistic Products. For $200, you can buy 50 boxes (less shipping) of these Kent shells for the about the same price that you can begin reloading! And how long will it take you to shoot 50 boxes of shells? Economically, the decision to begin reloading may not make sense for you at this time, if ever.

The infrequent shooter would be better off saving his money and either ordering from the internet or picking up a box of shells at his local dealer on his way to the range. Sleuthing through the aisles of a Box-Mart, you may turn up an occasional, miscellaneous $2.95 box of #7-1/2 or #8, often of foreign or unknown manufacture. There will be no telling in advance where it will have been produced or how it will perform. Some brands do not list velocities or give much specific information about components on their boxes.

When you shoot a muzzleloader, every shot is handloaded. The advent of breechloading guns in the nineteenth century allowed for factory production of complete shells.