You want to increase the magazine capacity of a gun with a tube magazine without buying an additional extension.Often, shotshell hulls will first wear out at the crimp and trimming off the tattered end can breathe new life into an old shell. You are extremely frugal and want to get as many firings as possible from your hulls.You own an old shotgun with a chamber length shorter than 2.75 inches and local retailers don’t carry what you need.Besides satisfying a curiosity about how these diminutive rounds would pattern, there are essentially three practical reasons for loading reduced length shells. Such was my motivation when I decided to make up a sample pack of reduced length (2 inch) 12 gauge shotshells.
Sometimes, however, I’ll take on a handloading project for no reason beyond a desire to make something a little unusual. Sometimes such handloads will be tailored for optimal performance in a particular gun or as specialized ammo suited to a particular task. For me, the appeal of handloading is not the potential to save money on ammo but the fact that I can create custom loads not commonly available on store shelves tailored to my specific shooting purposes. Turning my reloading bench into a miniature manufacturing facility where I spend endless hours performing the repetitive tasks needed to churn out hundreds of cartridges or shotshells strikes me more as a kind of punishment than as a relaxing hobby. A 12 gauge, 2 inch buckshot load, far left, compared to 2.75 inch, 3 inch, and 3.5 inch factory loads.
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