Anybody ever load anything in these hulls?

 

I'll double check. But I beleive they are fiber base. The law enforcement tactical buckshot hulls are gold medals with a 6pt crimp.

 

I load these all the time with Lee slugs and .69 RB, roll crimped with Fed GM data. They work fine for me! The local Police Dept. uses our range for qualification once a year, so I get a bunch of these when they're done. They do have a fiber base wad, so they are really more like a Top Gun hull for reloading, but they are shorter (2.5") and roll-crimped from the factory. If you roll crimp, these are a great find!

 

Anybody ever load anything in these hulls?

Yes, I load heavy field loads and steel waterfowl in them. You offered me some once and I forgot to follow up on it.

Are these roll crimped hulls? FullTang knows his stuff for sure, but if I recall correctly the pics you posted were Federal Gold Medal with the all plastic basewad.

 

The funny thing about the ones I have is that they say 2-3/4" 70 mm right on the side of the hull, but they are very definitely 2-1/2" long. I guess they want to reassure everyone that they are "normal" length, even though they're roll crimped. Some of the Euro buckshot loads are roll crimped 2-3/4 shells, and everyone is always commenting that they are longer than normal (since the roll crimp doesn't take up as much material as a fold crimp.) In any case, these are roll crimped, as you'd expect with a factory slug load, so they're nice to roll crimp on reloading---no need to trim or try to recondition the folded parts. The look especially slick with a clear overshot disk.

 

stock photo, but these are the ones

 

this shows the roll crimp; medium-high brass, made in USA
Local LE seem to love these!

 

Went ahead and loaded a few LEE 1oz slugs using the Hodgdon Load data for for the Federal GM Plastic Hulls. Here is the data

Hodgdon Clays CCI 209 WAA12SL 19.6 7,100 PSI 1,180
Hodgdon Clays CCI 209 WAA12SL 20.2 8,100 PSI 1,235 - Used This Load
Hodgdon Clays CCI 209 WAA12SL 20.9 9,200 PSI 1,290
Hodgdon Clays CCI 209 WAA12SL 22.0 10,200 PSI 1,345

Instead of the WAA12SL I used the CB1100-12
I also used a 1/8" 16ga Card Wad cut down to .100± under the slug

Here is the results:

Clear Overshot card

Next two no OS

Now to go shot them Friday and see what the results are!

 

Good looking loads. Which roll crimp tool are you using?

 

I use the plastic tool I think I got from BPI....I hear that Precision makes a better one.
I'd like to try it one day.