Shooting Reloaded Shells

**Decoy Dean** · 03-08-2005, 10:24 AM

I have had a Stoeger 2000 now for about a year and a half. I use it for waterfowl mostly and from time to time take it to shoot sporting clays. I broke my gun in over a year ago with 3" 2's then shot it for sporting clays last year using target loads 1 1/8 oz without any problems. In the last month I have gotten into reloading. I was out Sat. shooting and couldn't get many of the loads to cycle through. I was shooting 1 1/8 oz loads of reloaded AA's. Does anyone have any experience shooting their 2000 with reloaded rounds? I was just wondering what the problem may be. For now I think I will stick to the 1100 for clays. What do you guys use for lubricants? Any info would be appreciated.

**lalle** · 03-08-2005, 10:42 AM

not sure if this is of any help but:

i find even some factory rounds hard to get into the magazine more tha once. like for exsampel if i load the shotgun up and then shot one round so that an other gets loaded, and then deside to stop and unload, that round that was unloaded will be hard to get into the magazine again. ide imagien reloaded rounds would be even harder to get into the magazine.

**hollombj** · 03-08-2005, 11:56 AM

Haven't tried any reloads.Haven't seen any autoloaders that did like reloads much.Got one buddy whose 1100 .410 does ok kickingnthe bolt back when single loaded, but has a lot of trouble trying to shoot doubles. Are you full sizing your cases? I use WD40 or Starrett M1 oil on everything.

**timb99** · 03-08-2005, 03:42 PM

I use reloads all the time with my Remington 1100. Never have a problem with it.

While I can't say what is going on with your 2000 (because I'm not that familiar with the gun), a couple of questions come to mind.

First, are you using hulls that were originally shot in your 2000, or are these hulls that were shot in other guns or picked up off the ground?

Second, are you resizing your bases? This is usually the first step of the reloading process but it is optional on some reloaders. Some relaoders don't even have a resizing die.

Not everyone resizes their bases, or needs to. For semi-auto's though, most people think it is a necessary step, especially if you are using hulls you picked up off the ground.

Also, are you having problems only with the shells not cycling, or are you having trouble getting the action to close on the reloaded shells? If so, does your reloader have a "finish taper" step?

What reloader are you using?

Break-Free CLP works great on gas autos, but I'm not sure how well it will work on your 2000, or even where to put it!

Just some thoughts.

Tim

[ 03-08-2005, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: timb99 ]