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QUIGLEY SHOOTING ASSOCIATION NEWS


With no black powder Quigley shoots


scheduled until March next year, I thought I


might write a little on another subject that I am interested in, namely reloading 12 gauge shotshells with black powder, for use in Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) and even traditional clay target shooting.


Handloading, or reloading as it is commonly known, is not new; it started way back, so far back that even Vince can’t remember. (Thanks Ken – Ed.) After the invention of gunpowder, the development of firearms followed a natural progression but one action remained the same for a very long time, that is loading the thing.


Because they were muzzle loaders, everything from mortars, cannons, muskets and pistols required basically the same procedure, which is a charge of powder, followed by a wad of some description, then a single or multiple projectile and often another wad if the device was to be moved to prevent the projectile from shifting in the barrel.


With the development of the self-contained cartridge, things didn’t change that much, the common loading procedure was simply applied to a primed tube made from brass, paper or card and later, plastic in the case of shotgun ammunition.


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