How many empty hulls

do you have stashed? It seems I have a hull and gun buying problem. Is there a cure?

 

No cure on my end. I still collect hulls. Estimate around 30,000 and growing.

 

44 full tote boxes and 2 full 55 gal drums. Includes old style AA's, STS, old and new style Gold Medals, new style AA's, Federal papers, and some Gun Clubs. All fired 1x. You could say I have issues.

 

Not going to count what's in the storage room. But enough to keep me loading for weeks.

 

Well, I have the shotgun bug but thank God I have avoided the hull bug. I still have my old reloading equipment in the garage including about 20 bags of shot and some wads etc. but I have not reloaded in many years. I don't keep hulls. I do give them to reloaders I see at the pot shoots, especially AAs and the like. On occasion, they give me some of their magic loads.
If I were you Steve, I would get rid of the hulls. Just take em to the club and give them to some eager reloader dude. I don't think any of us are going to beat the price of bargain shells (just over 4 bucks a box) with reloads.
And, you don't have to breath, and absorb all that lovely lead residue.
Regards, Jake

 

Back when I first got my shotgun when I was 12, I had this weird obsession with saving all the spent hulls. I guess I thought I was someday gonna get into reloading. Who knows? I'm sure they're all still collecting dust somewhere in my parent's garage.

 

What is the reasoning behind hoarding hulls?

 

It probably comes from life in the 60's when empty hulls were coveted. Some of us even resorted to baking wet paper shells in the oven in order to get one more reload as reloadable empties were scarce. Today I've resorted to collecting Spolar reloaders too as I'm up to three now. You rookies wouldn't understand.

 

I think you nailed it. Even in the early 80’s people were hoarding “Blue Magics” and AA’s. Perhaps new ammo went up in price and hulls were scarce. It seems that there are cycles when facotry ammo is either cheap, hard to get, or expensive. Same goes for components.
However, if I calculate a conservative outlook of 6 loads per hull, I have to live to 143 years old before the inventory gets low enough to worry about

 

Now a days all my hulls are loaded, as I sold my loader 10 years ago. I work for a wholesale distributor and can get factory ammo cheaper than I can reload it. I don't miss reloading at all, but back in the day would have @5k hulls on hand. I'd always shoot New shells for Handicap and would look forward to an extra 2K from the Grand!

 

I finally trashed, gave away, or sold everything but my AA's. They go through my Dillon like grease. I must have in excess of 6,000 or so waiting to be loaded. But, I only shoot new AA's in handicap events. So, I'm add to my stash a couple of times a month

 

I have enough to last me the rest of my life. Thousands

 

I surely have enough to last the rest of my shooting career. I still scrounge hulls. All these are sorted, inspected, once-fired.

 

Dang...that is a lot of hulls. I have 5,000 but new body parts are keeping me from competing. I will trade those hulls for the recumbent.

 

There is no reason behind hording anything. It is a disease.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a disease that has slightly infected me.
But, thank God, not for hulls, plastic bags or broken garden equipment and the like.
Certain shotguns and vintage French kitchen knives are a different matter.

 

Back when I loaded and shot a lot, always had maybe 5,000 or more good ones ready to load up, now its buy, shoot, and chuck.

 

I've got like 3 - 35 gallon trash containers filled with empty hulls. Don't know what the heck I'm going to do with em since I stopped reloading after using my last bag of shot that I paid $12.50 a bag - ten years ago. I still reload a few shells for games where we get passed the 37 yard line. 6s. (We got 37 yard line pads at our club, no 28-36 but we do have the 37 yard line concrete pads) Really don't know what I will do with the empties. I can remember when I first started shooting - AA hulls were like picking up gold. Now you can't give em away and around here you can't Big Dog it anymore and let the shells hit the concrete - clubs around here require you to pick up your empties.

 

You are correct. I can remember years ago shooting AA's and shucking them out of my Model 12. People would follow me down the trap line picking up those hulls.

 

There is no cure. I still have my decade old hoard but either dump or give away my once fired gun clubs.

 

Way too many. It's just a lot of clutter I'd like to get rid of but I can't get myself to send them to the landfill. Are you allowed to set out trash cans full of them for pick-up by the trashmen?

 

Dump em at the club in a dumpster or put them up for sale if they are AA’s or Nitro’s ,etc

 

Man, this could be the makings of a tv episode on the Outdoor Channel