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Joined: 09 Oct 2005
Posts: 76
Location: Denver
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The place I’m lucky enough to be allowed to shoot doves is an organic potato farm. Even though I shoot around the edges of the fields, for years I’ve been feeling maybe just a little bit guilty about spewing lead and plastic wads around the place. Also, there is a pond in the middle of one of the fields I’ve avoided for this very reason and would like to check out this year; so I’m afraid the following is not completely altruistic…..
I want to load up some “low impact” (environmentally speaking) shells. I’ll use bismuth and I know there are felt and cardboard overshot, filler and, I’m assuming, over-powder cards available form Ballistic Products. So:
1. Anybody out there tried this sort of thing before?
2. Is 7 ½ Bismuth about the same as 7 ½ lead shot? I’d guess it is good enough.
3. What goes over the powder, what goes over the shot?
4. What I want is a 1 oz load of 7 ½’s at about 1200 fps.
I have Cheedite, Fiocchi and Black Rem hulls, SG16 and R16 wads and Win 209 and Fiocchi primers on hand. I typically use Green Dot but have some Universal Clays laying about somewhere. I’ll be shooing out of them out of the Merkel 1620.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I send the resultant shells off for velocity and pressure testing.
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