.310 skeet round

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biglabsrule

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I was wondering this today. My old man used to use a .310 shotgun(remington), the rounds were rimfire shotshell. Well they stoped making ammo for his 2 .310s back in the 80s or so, since then I bought him a .410 to use instead but he still longs for the .310 round to use around the house. Does anyone know if it would be possible to repack the rounds at all? Also I've had thoughts about refinishing one of the guns and having it mounted as a surprise christmas present, if anyone knows anything on the guns or rounds I would appreciate the knowlege.

I found this site on them but it's from Brazil, the guns and ammo were made in Brazil under the remington name.
http://www.municion.org/semi/310Rem.htm


PS know ive posted on this thing once before, but got about nothing to be honest, thought maybe someone new would have something, or maybe someone would know some way to pack a cartridge to work, they're 8mm rimfire with what i beleive is #12 shot...
 
You can't reload rimfire rounds, and recrimping those shells would be very difficult.

I'm afraid you are SOL :( :( :( .

Refinishing is a much simpler matter, though. You could probably do it yourself.
 
I really doubt you are going to find shells for his gun.. I had a 32 rimfire and the ammo is now almost non existant. As posted, reloading a rimfire is not possible at home.
 
I see this ammo from time to time at gunshows; usually from ammo collectors who sell them individually as novelties. I have one such round in my "collection". All the ones I've seen have a copper base and paper body.

Reloading rimfire ammo is indeed possible, though probably not practical. I guess it depends on how much work you'd want to invest. I've read about one guy who used the heads of strike anywhere matches as the priming compound, and stuffed it into the rim. This would be corrosive though. It might be possible to dismantle musket caps or percussion caps instead. I hope you realize such a proposition is extremely dangerous, and you should take all manner of safety precautions if you try. You could use the shell several times until you had too many spots dented on the rim.

Really, I think a better solution would be to convert the gun from rimfire to centerfire. Depending on the design, you might get by with filling the old firing pin holes & drilling new ones & moving the firing pins accordingly. Then you could find a more common brass round that could be converted to fit your chambers.

Once you get things figured out with your ignition source, it really ain't that big a deal to reload brass shotshells. You could probably pick up lots of tips in the handgun section.
 
I've also read about using the matchheads, but that really strikes me as an extremely dangerous "Anarchist's Cookbook" sort of thing.

Unless you are fighting off the Fourth Reich and/or zombies, it's too dangerous and unpredictable to be worth it.

That's why I didn't mention it, let alone recommend it.
 
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