hey guys. after finding out what fun reloading for rifle cartridges can be, and after picking up my latest purchase ( 10 gauge s x s, 24" barrels, with rifle sights on it. looks like an old British double ) I was wondering about reloading my own slug loads for it. i bought federal slugs, and after a few shots, the barrel and action is filthy. after a few boxes, there is powder and crud everywhere in the action. i would like to use winchester componets in my own reloaded slugs, if possible. in my 12 ga, with winchester ammo, powder fouling seems to be less in all of their ammo, especially their shotgun ammo. plus, it would probably be cheaper to shoot, (not that is a major, major concern) i've saved my fired slug shells in case i could reuse them like brass cases. i would like info on this, as far as a reloading setup to get, can i reuse cases or not, and can i buy premade slugs, or do i have to cast my own with a smelter, molds, and wheel weights. i would appreciate any info. thank you

Not sure of the correct spelling, but do a search for ballisticproducts.com and precisionreloading.com. Both of these companies offer alot of reloading products for shotgunners. Not sure about the slug offerings though. They used to have a TON of info and components for heavy payloads and specialt items.

284 has it right go to www.ballisticproducts.com . They have just what you want. All the info, wads, slugs, empty shells, roll crimpers, and data. Get on their mailing list, they will send you a catalog 3-4 times a year.

Now for the bad news. It's damn hard to get any accuracy with slug loads, at least for me it was. I bought the lyman slug mold, roll crimper, special wads, special powder, and ended up buying factory shells after getting beat to hell by that 870 of mine. This was 20 years ago, at least.

Being a glutten for punishment, I recently bought a lee "key" slug mould. It's so much easier to use than the old lyman, and the reject rate is much better. It's made to load right into a standard flat bottom shotcup. The idea was to use them for IPSC 3 gun shoots. Loaded in a shortened shotshell, they would work well in the high cap shotguns used in that game. They shot fairly accurate with the loads called for in the instructions that came with the mold.