Bats, Balls, and Beyond

Hunting birds with shotguns can be a rewarding experience to do as a family but can become expensive due to the cost of shotgun shells. Though not excessively expensive, they can become costly if a family is struggling to hit birds and keeps going through many boxes of shells. Thankfully, powder tricklers can help provide these individuals with a better cost investment on their hunt.

Some Hunters May Go Through Many Shotgun Shells Each Hunt

Shotguns are designed to be perfect for hunting many animals, particularly small birds because the buckshot from a shell covers a wide area. However, an avid but inaccurate hunter may find that they use a large number of rounds every time that they go hunting. This problem may not seem like a major one, but it can become complicated when a hunter supplies the shells for family members.

For example, a mother showing her son how to shoot birds not only has to stock her gun but her son's as well. And the inaccuracy of her son's shots could be costly until he improves his skills. No matter the situation, it is advisable for hunters to consider using powder tricklers to balance their cost investment. In most cases, these items provide a great return on a person's time and money.

How Powder Tricklers Help

Powder tricklers are a necessary tool for anybody who plans to refill their shotgun shells. They carefully measure out the amount of powder that a used shell needs and correctly distributes it into the casing. Then, it can buckshot and make it easier to add the cap. When used efficiently, a powder trickler can help a hunter make a dozen shells or more over an extended afternoon of refilling.

In this way, families can gather up their used shells — making a game of it with the kids by rewarding them for each round brought back — and fill them again for cheaper ammo. And many families can make this a rewarding experience to do together — the parents can fill the shells, and the kids can place them in boxes and seal them up for more comfortable transportation.

And after testing each shell to make sure that they are correctly assembled, the family can go out for another hunt using their refilled cartridges. In this way, a powder trickler can provide a family with hours of fun and teach them about gun safety by teaching them how their shotgun shells are made.