Using a 410 Lee Loader
Posted: 05 Nov 2021 19:32
Well, this section of the forum doesn’t seem to be very lively, so let me take a stick and see what I can stir up. At a fund raiser auction our club ran several years ago, somebody donated an old 410 Lee Loader from the old Lee Custom iteration of the company. AFAIK, this tool didn’t make the jump to Lee Precision. My example is made for the desirable (to me at least) 2 1/2” shell.
A year or two later I was able to buy a Marlin Model 90 in 410 bore. For those who aren’t familiar, the Model 90 is an over under developed prior to WW II, then continued after the war until the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. To the point of this post, the 410 was only in production for a couple of years prior to the war with a few odd pieces rumored to have been made up on special order right after the war (perhaps with leftover parts??)
So, why am I posting this on the Lee Loader Forum? I’ve got a couple of hundred once fired Winchester AA hulls and all of the components to reload them. I just need to “screw up my courage to the sticking point” (with proper nod to The Bard”) and actually make some reloads and shoot them through my rare and valuable shotgun. I’d love to hear from any of my fellow forum members who have loaded 410 bore shells with a Lee Loader. I’m experienced with metallic cartridges using all sorts of tools including Lee Loaders, but have only loaded a few thousand shot shells using an actual loading press, none on a Lee Loader.
tIA ~ Froggie
A year or two later I was able to buy a Marlin Model 90 in 410 bore. For those who aren’t familiar, the Model 90 is an over under developed prior to WW II, then continued after the war until the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. To the point of this post, the 410 was only in production for a couple of years prior to the war with a few odd pieces rumored to have been made up on special order right after the war (perhaps with leftover parts??)
So, why am I posting this on the Lee Loader Forum? I’ve got a couple of hundred once fired Winchester AA hulls and all of the components to reload them. I just need to “screw up my courage to the sticking point” (with proper nod to The Bard”) and actually make some reloads and shoot them through my rare and valuable shotgun. I’d love to hear from any of my fellow forum members who have loaded 410 bore shells with a Lee Loader. I’m experienced with metallic cartridges using all sorts of tools including Lee Loaders, but have only loaded a few thousand shot shells using an actual loading press, none on a Lee Loader.
tIA ~ Froggie