The empty hulls are somewhat in demand by those that shoot vintage 8ga shotguns. Not much else around in 8ga afterall.
They take standard 209 shotshell primers. Black powder is usually used in the vintage guns and card & fibre wads are available yet from a couple of sources.
The recent mfg hulls are plastic case w/a high brass head. The case needs trimming for the old vintage short chambers and that's not a problem.
What can be a problem is that the Industrial 8ga hulls are mfg w/a 'belt' around the base just ahead of the rim.
The Industrial gun they are meant to be fired in is chambered for it of course,,but those old vintage guns will not accept the belted case and with good reason.
The belt was and is a safety precaution to keep the high pressure industrial round out of sporting arms which were never meant to fire them.
Some industrious souls have altered their vintage guns by cutting the chambers to accept the belted case.
Frowned upon both from a safety standpoint and the disfigurement of the collectible.
I just worked on a beautiful W&C Scott 8Ga SxS not long ago that had that surgery done to it.
A better solution comes with a price. A die to swage the the case head down to elliminate the belt. You supply the press,,a standard 7/8-14 reloading press isn't large enough in dia to take the die.
The 8ga is right around an inch dia at the case head,,so a small arbor press is the usual way to go.
..and you thought you could just buy a few empty cases and shoot the old thing..
