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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Things that make you say "Hmmmm..." |
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:55 am
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:36 pm
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Mike,
Now you have me wondering what my Clay Buster 16 Ga. wads are doing. They seem to load fine and shoot fine, but I guess I'll have to cut one open to see what it looks like  |
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:49 pm
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Wads are trapped in a rigid tube and remain symetrical, from when you reload them until barrel exit. Forget what you think you see, it isn't there. You are chasing ghosts.
Take the loads and pattern test them. That will be the final test.
I have never had a one piece plastic wad go in cock-eyed,so I can't comment on that part of your post. |
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:48 pm
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:09 pm
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Those wads didn't go part way in and cock, mysteriously, they are cocked because they caught on the mouth of the hull. The other issue you have with those wads, is they were never designed to go in a Remington hull, it is a tight fit.
Mike you are making more of this than it is. Take apart most loads, you will find the same thing. Wads collapse, they are supposed to. Cut any load apart with a Remington Power Piston wad in it, they all look the same. |
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:41 pm
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Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:46 am
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Mike,
Buy yourself a bag of Clay Buster 16's for the RGL. They work great so far  Besides, they come in a beautiful "powder blue color"  They are so pretty, I think I'm gonna hang some on the Christmas tree this year
Life is too short to load with an ugly wad ---- Right |
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Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:10 am
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Mike,
It sounds like those R16s are not cocked while inside the hulls (as you depict with the Gualandis). Evidently, the legs don't relax to pre-compression state. Its possible that fired wads might not look distorted.
I wonder if this is affecting performance? If there were some way to distinguish loaded shells containing these wads you could run some velocity variation tests on them vs the "normals". Did you get any obvious off-reports from the larger batch?
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