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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Have you ever |
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:01 pm
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tried to dry your hulls in a food dehydrator after a duck hunt?
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Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:54 pm
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NO.
because of the sand and mud and wet
I dispose of them.
Would hate to miss a duck or mess up a gun
I have enough other concerns  |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:05 am
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I agree with Mike.
Hulls aren't worth saving once they get wet/muddy. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:20 am
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Thanks for sharing those hunt pic's Emtymag, enviable.
Interesting idea, but, if steel shot, especially unplated, I agree w/skeettx, not worth it. I put mine in the recycle bin with the whoops reloads and pull apart when bored after seasons close. The guns I enjoy hunting with are no longer made & to me hunting ammo cost is practically invisible in relation to replacing rare or favorite guns or worse yet hurting my crew let alone myself.
Probably common knowledge but worth mentioning, I find those plastic ammo boxes that replace the factory paper boxes essential to my Waterfowl hunting gear, especially in layout boats. Along with sealing my ammo pretty much has negated the water logged ammo thing for me.
Keep the great hunt pics coming, with any luck I'll have some to share soon. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:17 am
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| I think he’s drying empty hulls. Possibly after he washes them. I’m not sure if it’s bad or not. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:37 am
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| Correct, drying empty’s. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:03 am
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| I'd toss any Federal hulls with the composite base-wad if they got wet. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:54 pm
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| If paper basewad, agree 100% with previous post dump them, if all plastic and they can be dried right after the hunt I believe you can dry it out. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:35 pm
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| When your wife is not looking, put them in a mesh bag and run them in the dryer for a few minutes on medium heat. Works fine. Can be a bit noisy. |
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Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:42 pm
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Never done that. All plastic hulls, I just let dry out on their own.
Hulls like Federals with paper base wads, I discard if they get wet.
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Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:19 am
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Whoops, sorry for jumping to a "wet ammo" conclusion, should work fine for plastic base wad hulls.
The once wet paper base Fed's are suspect. I remember a thread a while back regarding the Fed base wad shrinking and dislodging enough to get stuck in a barrel. |
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