If ever handloading shotshells can pay off, it’s in the loading of .410 bore. Prices of factory .410 2½" shotshells are about double that of factory 12-ga. shells, despite the fact .410s ...

Reloading has been around since the first all-brass shotgun shells. But it boomed in the 1960s with the advent of plastic shotgun hulls and continued to grow through the 1970s.