have 5,000 3" winchester aa hulls

[KevinG]

  Hello and greetings, to all I have a major or minor problem, and have 5,000 double (AA) winchester hulls and want to load buck and slugs , and some moderate loads with #5-or #6 for rabbits and squirrls, and heavy loads for turkey in theses hulls and am haveing a difficult time locateing  load data have the recent alliant and hogdon and imr books but they only show 2 3/4" loads or am I not looking in the right books, just gut bsi catalog but havent ordered any books as of yet thought I'd try here first.Thanks for your help guys and girls. KevinG

[dukkillr]

I know winchester makes all kinds of shells, but I don't think i've ever seen 3" AAs.  I always thought that AA was only a 2 3/4" low brass upland/clays shell.

[Graybeard]

If they are 3" hulls technically they aren't AA hulls as those are only made as 2-3/4" target shells. But they are likely basically the same other than length and maybe number of folds to the crimp.

The manuals you have should have the data you are looking for but NOT with the data for the others perhaps. If you are going to load shotshells you really need to buy the Lyman Shotshell Reloading Manual it is currently at the fifth edition. I ordered one today from Ballistics Products and they have them in stock. I think our sponsor Midsouth does too but they didn't have the primary item I was ordering and you need a $40 order with them so I had to go with BP this time for the order I placed.

Generally the 3" data is at the end of the shotshell loading info in manuals. Slug data is then normally behind that. You'll need a special tool to do the crimp on the slugs and I'm not familiar with that process really.

[Val]

I get 3" load data from the powder manufacturers web pages.

[Hairtrigger]

Dumb question here
Are you measuring the hull after it has been fired?

[.45 COLT]

You can get data for Hodgdon, IMR and Winchester powder from Hodgdon's website.

http://www.hodgdon.com/

For Alliant powder, they have it on their website.

http://www.alliantpowder.com/

They do have 3" data, you just gotta dig a little.

DC

[KevinG]

  well guys I didnt look to close and discovered that they were actually  2 3/4" shells haven't realized that , but have found that on the shell is listed 3 and load on shell and they are winchester AA's it was my bad screw up but thanks for the help. KevinG

[Selmer]

And with those AA hulls you can load anything from #9 7/8 oz. skeet loads up to 1 5/8 oz. excessive pheasant loads.  We loaded #4 buck in them for years with great success geese and coyotes.  I currently use them for ALL of my reloading for league trap and upland gunning.  The only drawback I know of is that they are not recommended for steel shot reloading.
Selmer