Modifying Brass Shotgun Shells to accept the 209 Primer.wmv

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one of guys Dave calibrate the path fire school back with another video in the series of the 21st century long hunter I'm going to regress for a minute back to our shotgun loading videos for the single-shot 12-gauge H and our modified choke what I've got here is I've got a box of brass shotgun shells from magtec and he's came from Midway USA they were fairly cheap probably 25 bucks for the box and there's 20 24 shells in here I believe high brass is kind of hard to find and you can reload that brass until your casing wears out until your plastic wears out or your brass wears out but if you get a box of these shotgun shells that are solid brass and what these are is they're a two and three quarter inch solid brass shotgun shell that's used for like Western shooting and things like that for Cowboy & Western accent shooting but they fit in this 12-gauge just perfect the only problem with these is they come with a primer pocket that's setup for a large pistol primer large pistol primers number one are harder to seat in the field than a regular on 209 primer number two they're about twice or three times the money of a two a nine shotgun primer so what we're going to do is we're going to modify this to fit a two a nine shotgun primer we're going to load one of these up in the field right here we're going to seal it with tallow instead of beeswax which is something you could have a lot of in the field potentially if you kill the deer and we're going to shoot this bad boy a tin can out of a 12-gauge you show you how she works these should be reusable for a long long time 24 of these shells to last you you know almost indefinitely ok guys so the first thing we have to do before we can load this shell up we have to modify these shells to accept the to an iron shotgun primer from the primer the originally come with and you can see what I've done with this one I'll show ATF close I've already drilled this one out and shot it a couple of times that's why it's all blackened up the good thing about brasses it's just going to corrode on you it's not going to rust up and it's not going to break up like the plastic shotgun shells are going to do over time so what we've got to do is we've got to take this large pistol primer pocket we've got to drill it out so it will accept it too and on shotgun primer and what I suggest you do is get you a set of drill bits and just kind of feed one through one of your shotgun shells and

till you find the one that slides through the way it's supposed to you can champer the edge of that thing a little bit so the primer seats all the way down in there I did not do that I just drove out straight hole in it I believe this is a 1560 force drill bit on this drill and all I did was just grab the hold of it stuck it in dead center and drilled it out then when I got to drill down I just kind of wobbled a little bit just to make sure we good clean hole

I don't want to oversize it it's not going to sneak properly once I've done that I've got this thing set up now to where it will take a two a nine shotgun primer it's a pretty simple process now the one thing that's a little bit more difficult with this than with the other shotguns shells is it's a little harder to seat the primer in there real easy you're almost going to have to use the tool to seat that primer or you're going to have to bang something on top of the shell you can't just push it in with your finger that's going to see because that hole is not going to accept that primer not easily all right probably because of the chamfer so what we're going to do now is we're going to put a new primer in this shell I've got a box of tooling on shotgun primers here and we're going to do this very similar to what we've done in every other video in this series and we're going to load the shotgun shell the same way except we're going to seal the towel this time instead of beeswax Jeremy if you can make sure that I will still melt the down for me over there I'd appreciate it brother

okay so we've got our two tools here that we need to use for D priming and reap rhyming our shell and that is basically just this round magnet that we've been using and this quarter inch screwdriver and then we need some type of baton or our axe so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and push this primer with my hand as far as I think it will see and make sure it's good to square it up in the hole just like that what didn't quite go in there I might have to shampoo that out just a little bit by hand there we go now it's in there good okay now what we're going to do with that is we're going to put that on a flat surface so we're going to use this piece of magnet we're just going to set it right on top of that piece of magnet and then I will just take a flat piece of wood like this to use that type of anvil and get my axe problem is I'm left-handed so I have to do things backwards all the time home on that flat piece of metal like that and now we've got to seat it in there now if I chamfered that it would probably see just a little bit better but it's definitely good enough there's no question about it I've already shot two or three of these and it is in there seated good it's not coming out that's for sure alright so now we're back to the point where all we have to do is reload our shell in the normal sequence first our powder then our patch and then our load and then we're going to seal it with tallow so I'll be right back with you in just a second when I get ready to seal it up I don't need to show the process of reloading the shell you guys have seen out in a couple videos already okay so we've got our shell loaded up now we've got our load in there we've got about 42 to 50 bb's in there the same measurement as our powder and we've got a just an old tin can here it's got melted towel in it that we've been melting over the fire and this is what I'm going to use to seal this round with and basically I'm just going to pour it in

right to the top of the shell or a little bit below and then I'm just going to let that dry now the good thing about using tallow to seal your shells with not only is it readily available if you've killed a large game animal like a deer but the other good thing about it is that when that flood comes out goes down your barrel it's going to be looping your barrel at the same time where beeswax isn't going to do that because it's kind of sticky this stuff is gonna be a lubricant to help preserve your barrel as well and maybe keep some of the fouling out so we'll let this dry and then we'll shoot her and see how she does okay you can see our Talos dried now got a little dimple in the middle of Italian gonna hurt nothing I'll wipe the towel off the outside of the case we're load this bad boy up and we'll shoot a can here from a short distance away simulating a small game and see how this load does okay guys so here's our shotgun here's our round we'll get this excess towel and wiped off the outside of the case like I said that's not going to hurt anything it's just going to lubricate the chamber anyway she slides right in there to two and three-quarter inch round I got a three-inch chamber modified choke let's see what we can do okay guys here we go not the two it popped right out there's our shell we'll pop that primer out and be ready to rock and roll again let's go look at that can okay guys here's our can wasted that was a rabbit he'd be tore up probably more than I'd want him tore up so I'd probably shoot that from further away that was only probably 12 yards you know I'd probably shoot out of 20 yards but that's what she does

out of that shotgun shell full brass shells like I said Midway us a two and three-quarter inch brass they'll come with a primer pocket set up for large pistol primers all you have to do is drill them out to accept the - a nine primer you're ready to rock and roll you got an indefinite supply brass okay guys there we go there's five shells ready to go into shooting bag drilled out primed and load it up probably in less than five or six minutes in camp here of course you want to drill all those cases out ahead of time obviously and prime them up and have them ready or reloaded like I did just did and you're ready to rock and roll when you're ready to go hunting all right guys I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me for another video hope you enjoyed this idea on the brass casings actually one of my viewers sent me a little message about those brass casings and I looked them up on the internet and found in Midway USA ordered them last week got him in last night couldn't wait to get out here and trying to show them to you guys I think that those things you know are basically a revolution in the things that we've been doing with the 21st century long runner series as far as reloading shells with black powder for the single shot hnr we're needing the alarm's 12-gauge so I hope you enjoyed it I appreciate your views I appreciate your support and thank you very much you