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SHOTSHELL COMPONENTS

All types of shotshells are essentially the same, and all are very different, in the same way that all cars are the same, but none are identical. Shells have the same basic elements and those elements have basic functions. Nevertheless, there is a practically endless combination of these elements and reloading just one of every possible combination would be a lifetime of work.

Besides the tools needed to put them together, you need five essential ingredients to build a shotshell and we will discuss three of them – hull, primer and wad – in this chapter. (The shot and the powder, or propellant, will be discussed separately.) A shell consists of:

Check every hull before setting it in the resizing collar of your reloader. Scott Richardson inspects a bucket of .410-bore hulls before selecting those that are good enough to be shot once again.

• a hull or case, which acts as a container;

• a primer in the base of the hull, which the hammer strikes and causes to explode, thereby igniting the powder burn;