Hi there Nebs, thank you so much for your reply.
The hulls i will be getting are the classic AA CF hulls and as far as i have figured it out, they are tapered hulls.?
I went to the range yesterday after shooting completed for the day and was able to retrieve lots of once fired hulls left there. looks like most of them are Federal Top Gun red and similar amounts of Eley Olympic blues as well as the cheapest Diana reds. They all seem to be two piece with straight walls, but with a tapered white disk at the bottom, apart from the Federal, which seems to made out of cork ( reloading problem?)
in the mean time i have also received 500 mystery hulls which i cant place. even after looking on the web from different manufacturers, it still eludes me.( see photo).
This seems to be a very complicated process of finding the right combinations, hull, wads, powder, primers and shot
here in Australia where duck hunting is allowed, less and less states are now, it is law to use steel shot. I have noticed that there is a special powder to use for steel too.
i wont be needing to make that many steel shots, maybe enough to get me by for this coming season and next years season, for a start. the rest will be made in lead for rabitt and fox shooting, #2 or #4 and then the various ones i will be taking to the range for skeet/trap practice to keep my skills up to speed.
i have also noticed that there are many variations in height of the wad, cup volume etc. Where do i start???? so confusing. It seems that the powder also influences the volume that is taken up in the hull and this will influence the wad that is to be used and its overall length.
i havent decided which relaoding book to get, as most of them are designed for the States and what is available there, which btw is heaven for variety and pricing.
if you have a recommendation for a good powder and a good reference book for load data, much appreciated.
in the mean time, its back to having 20 browser tabs open, trying to find a good source of knowledge. ( hoping to find the Dummy guide 101 to reloading).
cheers again for your help
Ralph