Originally Posted by
offshore44
There is so much bad information floating around about Magtech brass hulls it's unbelievable.
If you do a little reading of authoritative sources, you'll find some very interesting things out about these, and similar, hulls.
CBC in Brazil makes them. Magtech imports them. CBC has reloading data for smokeless powder in the CBC version of the Magtech hulls. Unfortunately the reloading data is in Portuguese, and the powders listed are not available in the US. The primers used are not available in the US either.
Remington, Winchester, Alcan, and federal have made brass hulls very similar to Magtech hulls at one time or another. Remington recommended that everyone who purchased a shotgun from them keep a box of brass shells available at one time. Several companies made tong type tools to reload brass hulls in the past.
There's a few tips and tricks to reloading brass hulls. It's cheap and easy. And safe. Just don't be stupid.
Magtech brass is almost all I shoot now. It lasts seemingly forever. 12 ga, 16 ga, and 20 ga. The 16 ga shoots best with brass hulls and smokeless or black powder loads. Homemade birdshot (about#5), buckshot (#1), and roundball (1 oz).
Everyone has to do what they believe is best though. Just do your own research and make up your own mind.