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INSPECT EVERY HULL

Because hulls are so important to successful shooting, you must inspect them carefully before you begin reloading. Sorting and inspecting hulls while you are sitting at the reloading bench can seem unnecessarily tedious, though: you are perched in front of your machine with your components and the power is on, but before you can load a single hull, you have to check the type, its integrity and cleanliness every time you set one up. Perhaps the best time to sort and inspect is while you are watching television. A golf, baseball or football game on the tube where action is intermittent, gives you the time and opportunity to check each shell. Then, when you sit down at your reloading bench, you can confidently pound out the reloads.

Initial sorting separates gauges and lengths. After that, you can sort for brand and type. Just because you are holding a 12-gauge hull does not mean that you can load it with just any 12-gauge recipe. Seemingly small but ballistically significant differences in hull material, design, capacity and wear affect loads profoundly.