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Our gun club kept a big glass jar of reclaimed (harvested, cleaned, lubed and packaged on site) shot so you could see what you were getting. I remember one fellow saying that if he reloaded, he sure wouldn't use that reclaimed stuff. Another guy asked him why he didn't reload. The reply was that the saving wasn't that much compared to the dove and quail promotional loads he typically used on targets. The first guy then opened the crimp on one of the other guy's dove loads and poured the shot in his hand and moved his hand next to the jar.
The reclaimed target shot looked more regular that the floor sweepings that had been loaded in the low cost field load. Some of the re-loaders I know used reclaimed shot exclusively. Sadly, with the price of lead, reclaimed shot is no longer available at the club. There's more profit for the club if they re-manufacture the harvested shot off-site.
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