16 Gauge Blues

[skeet]

Sounds neat to talk of reloading 16 ga. But Being in the reloading business for all those years I can tell you that 16 ga components are as hard to find as the ammo. 16 ga empties are just as bad. I know...I know. The specialty companies have all kinds of stuff for reloading. BUT ..do they? And the expense of shipping items with the necessary wait makes it end up being too expensive. Might as well just buy the loaded specialty ammo from those same companies. After a few cases of ammo...well quite a few...I made the decision years ago that the 16, while being a good gauge etc, is not neessary for my uses. The 20 will do just as well and maybe better. The 16 is kinda neat for nostalgia reasons though. Kinda like the 28 ga, which I love to shoot. Kind of unnecessary. Anything it will do the 20(or 16) will do infinitely better