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One reason many shotgunners give for reloading shotshells is to save money. You can save money by reloading. Perhaps a better reason however is so that you can take personal charge of the loading process. You can customize loads and build shells to suit your gun’s mechanical preferences, and for the weather conditions.

I have never been certain that low cost is a good reason to buy something, although until I win the lottery, it remains a factor in most of my buying decisions. The saying caveat emptor applies with shotshells just like it does with automobiles or hunting dogs. On the other hand, if you shoot often – and “often” means once or twice a week, I suppose, firing half-a-dozen boxes of shells – you can certainly save money by reloading. You will soon bring the cost of your average load down to $2 or even less as you locate cost-effective vendors for buying raw materials in bulk, re-use your own hulls and perhaps even reload for a couple of friends. All of this amortizes the cost of your gear rapidly, even though most reloaders find that he or she soon buys more complex gear, experiments with more diverse loads, shoots more frequently and perhaps even builds a reloading room off the carport or in the basement.