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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Green dot or INternational |
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Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:52 pm
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Joined: 30 Nov 2011
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Location: Minnesota
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If you could only have one or the other which would it be? Do u use them for other gauges? |
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Fri Feb 22, 2019 4:18 pm
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Last edited by mike campbell on Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:19 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Fri Feb 22, 2019 5:47 pm
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Joined: 27 Sep 2015
Posts: 177
Location: Alabama
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I'm beginning to study the same question. I'm loading 2 1/2 in hulls exclusively now, both shortened and purchased and I have 1 LB PB left. I am looking for a suitable replacement for mostly 7/8 oz loads but some 1 oz loads in cheddite , shortened fiocchi, and shortened RGL. I decided if I think I need 1 1/8 oz for Phez, I'll buy'em! |
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Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:29 pm
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Joined: 24 Jul 2016
Posts: 548
Location: Ohio
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Ah,Green Dot my all time favorite powder for 12,16,and twenty. I use it 98% of the time. |
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Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:36 pm
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Joined: 09 Mar 2016
Posts: 753
Location: Mn.
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Neither Kicked my last 8 lb. keg of Green Dot last year and have gone to IMR Green. Not even looking back.
Used to use both Green Dot and International for the 20 and 16. Which ever I could get cheaper. Or a few years ago which ever one I could get my hands on. I use Clays for the 12 ga. Well used to, it isn't even worth reloading for the 12 and 20 for me anymore.
Remember the 12 lb. kegs of powder? Got this keg of Red Dot in late 83
Take my time and looking for sales and free shipping I can get ready to shoot ammo at the same price it would cost me to load them in the 12 and 20. If I am truly accurate in my total costs, even buying in bulk from a wholesaler that comes up from Iowa couple of times a year.
At one time you couldn't even buy 7/8 oz. loads in 12 ga. Now it is not a problem from several sources. Even get 3/4 oz. in 20. Not ready to get rid of any of my MEC 9000's yet though, or one of Ben's first automates which eventually MEC bought the rights from him as the 9000E. I don't have to keep my fingers on the buttons just tap and grab a hull and wad with each hand. But still not as easy as having completed rounds delivered to my door for about the same price. The 16 is a different story. |
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Sun Feb 24, 2019 5:11 am
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Joined: 06 Oct 2007
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Location: West MI
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mike campbell wrote: |
whichever is cheaper and more reliably available....which, for me, was Green Dot at one point. So I bought about 80 lbs and haven't looked back.
My favorite in the 12 & 16, useable for 3/4-78 in the 20ga. Will due satisfactory duty for plinking with 9mm, 38 spl, 44 spl, 45ACP.
The same could be said about either. Thus, see first paragraph.
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Pretty much verbatim... |
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Sun Feb 24, 2019 8:13 pm
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Joined: 19 Apr 2008
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I shoot both but seem to go to the Green Dot a lot more than the International. |
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Sun Apr 07, 2019 6:01 pm
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Joined: 21 Jan 2019
Posts: 48
Location: Indiana
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Lady I know is having problems with her vision n needed a low recoil duck load. We don't take long shots, so I loaded RP12/green dot/1.125 Bismuth for her. It was an old PR load.
She liked them. A lot. Said they barely kicked. Killed them dead at 30 yds.
Course it was colder than a well digger and we had the heavy jackets on.
BD |
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Posted:
Sun Apr 07, 2019 6:11 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Barnyard Drake,
Welcome on your first posting
Good on ya, Thanks for taking care of the ladies
We need more women hunters.
Mike |
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Sun Apr 07, 2019 7:11 pm
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Joined: 16 Jul 2015
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Location: Hudson,Wy
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Okay Cold Iron, this begs the question, why IMR Green instead of Green Dot since they use the same data and do the same thing? Cleaner? At some point I will run out of Green Dot and if IMR Green has some worthwhile advantage I could be convinced to try it. |
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Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:05 am
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Joined: 24 Jul 2016
Posts: 548
Location: Ohio
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IMR Green is a little denser. I had to drop (if I remember right) 2 bushing sizes. Other then that no difference. I bought some on a sale of some sort. Price is the only consideration in my opinion. |
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Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:27 am
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Joined: 09 Mar 2016
Posts: 753
Location: Mn.
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IMR Green is cleaner than green dot IME and most others seem to have found the same. But availability is a big reason I switched in the beginning. Those that have chronographed the 2 have found less SD with IMR Green. With shotgun loads that isn't something I get carried away with however. IMR is also a little bit cheaper from my suppliers and a larger factor to me than anything else. |
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