Price of shotgun cartidges

[Snap-Cap]

Hull superfast pigeon 32gram 5.5s fibre wad 80 odd quid a slab can't beat them does for everything

 

[wabbit warren]

Hull superfast pigeon 32gram 5.5s fibre wad 80 odd quid a slab can't beat them does for everything

good to know im using fiochhi F3 game 30g 6,s at the mo but not happy with them to be honest
about 1 in 10 im getting the fibre wad confettiing from the barrel and its off putting

 

[ashray]

i have a few 100 12 bore but no one wants them as they are plastic wad and every one uses fibre wad these days !

 

[CookM]

We need to import Baikal records again, just ware sunglasses !

£79.95 a thousand,mixed slabs,BB through to no.7.
Oh my hearing......

 

[Smellydog]

£79.95 a thousand,mixed slabs,BB through to no.7.
Oh my hearing......

Where from???

 

[sich1]

@ashtray

i prefer plastic and the farms i shoot are not fussed., they're just glad someone wants to shoot!

 

[CookM]

Wasn't it Sportsmarketing?this was in the '70s and '80's remember.
I doubt they are allowed to be imported,what with the war.
Dad had a whole load of cardboard rto ones,they has ducks on and big shot sizes.
Sooty,fiery and they worked.

 

[Rasputin]

Cartridges have always been expensive. Clay pigeon shooting has always been expensive. Shooting full bore rifles is expensive. Shooting driven phaesants is bloody expensive, grouse even more so. Going hunting, especially in exotic places is eye wateringly expensive.

Unless you happen to be very rich, but then your jets, super yachts, mistresses or playboys etc are bloody expensive.

Absolutely this. People moan about getting youngster into shooting but forget that unless it’s heavily subsidised it’s financially out of reach especially if the parents are not really into shooting.

 

[dogman56]

On the otherside compare the price for PC components - in the 90's it would cost me about a £1k for a pc and today it's not much more.

 

[Heym SR20]

On the otherside compare the price for PC components - in the 90's it would cost me about a £1k for a pc and today it's not much more.

Like wise cost of guns has really gone up. In the mid 1990’s I paid £1,300 for my Heym 243 with a Zeiss Scope. It was second hand but in new condition and bought from J Roberts & Sons. Today you will pay a similar amount for a reasonably new Sako or Tikka with a good but basic scope.

For a few hundred pounds you can buy a good second hand shotgun or an entry level new gun. Major difference now to the late 80’s is the orientation of the barrels. Then it was a decent second hand English or Spanish boxlock ejector - the AyA No4, or a new Yeoman or Gunmark Kestrel etc. now its a second hand Berretta Silver Pigeon or 425 Browning or Mitoku equivalent or a new Turkish made AtA etc.

 

[DesG]

Try pricing a box of slugs! £47 per 25!

This is when re loading makes sense. I can cast slugs for essentially nowt and either load them into live cheap carts with the shot removed or fill old ones with a rollover crimp for very little money.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Where from???

The 1980s

 

[grandad of the woods]

This is when re loading makes sense. I can cast slugs for essentially nowt and either load them into live cheap carts with the shot removed or fill old ones with a rollover crimp for very little money.

What mould do you use

 

[DesG]

Lee one Oz. It shoots better than the 7/8.

 

[grandad of the woods]

I was looking at the lee load slug tool but wasn't sure ehow good they were there the cup looking one, what they like compared to shop bought slugs with the fins

 

[grandad of the woods]

Lee one Oz. It shoots better than the 7/8.

I was looking at the lee load slug tool but wasn't sure ehow good they were there the cup looking one, what they like compared to shop bought slugs with the fins

 

[DesG]

I was looking at the lee load slug tool but wasn't sure ehow good they were there the cup looking one, what they like compared to shop bought slugs with the fins

I've loaded a fair few but not used them on anything other than targets so best see if anyone here has more experience with them. There's a few good utoob videos of them.

 

[User00056]

Older thread I know, but not having had to buy cartridges for a while, I thought I better pick up a few boxes while I was in my local Bushwear. £25-odd a box for steel!!!

Is that the going rate these days?

 

[chriswjx]

No, or shouldn't be... Unless you're buying it in 28b or something

Prices are still always still climbing, but that sounds a bit high. Price check against just-cartridges

 

[chriswjx]

These are the MOST expensive offerings in steel from just cartridges. The ones at £1.5k per 1000 are all bismuth loads.