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Why are 410 shells so expensive? I know they are more difficult to load and I know they don't do the quanities they do of 20 and 12. I can buy 12 or 20 in top gun or gun club loads for $8.50/25 and 410 shells are $22/25. There's a lot more shot and powder in a 12 gauge load.

I've heard 410 cases are harder to make and I know they can be harder to load with shot bridging etc but the cost still seems like a bit of gouging. I used to pay $5 for 12 gauge trap loads and 410 3" were usually about $8. It seems like some money could be made on 410 ammo and I occasionally see some import stuff but what's keeping someone from starting to load and sell a bunch.

You can even buy empty hulls to load anywhere and its been that way for a few years. Seems like someone could get some Chinese plant to make them a bunch of hulls to sell to reloaders. People are getting them to make scopes the should be able to make some plastic hulls.

The new keltec ksg in 410 has me thinking.

Bb

I load #6 , 7.5 , 8 and shot bridging happens sometimes . I went with the plastic drop tube and that seemed to help lessen it. Slowly sliding the charge bar to drop shot seems to help.
I have the MEC 600 Jr. so its easy to make sure since you load 1 at a time.