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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ 1 1/4 oz. buffered lead |
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Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:44 pm
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Joined: 04 Mar 2019
Posts: 1844
Location: Central ND
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I began experimenting 20 years ago with using gas seals, felt wads, mylar wrap, buffer and Steel powder for lead, steel & bismuth loads. The reason I started down the road was that we didn't (we do now) have a wad that would work with steel shot and we didn't have a 1 1/8 oz./ 1 1/4 oz. wad that sealed well and didn't allow migration in anything but Winchester CF and Remington RGL hulls.
The buffered Bismutb load that I have works really well and I had used it for ducks, until this year when I started using it for upland hunting. This load is published in the manual, Blanks to Supersonics.
I don't have a 16 ga. shotgun that I want to use steel shot in, so the load I developed sits and I have never used it to hunt with. It was never published because I wasn't comfortable with the fact that steel shot larger than #2 and would rub through the mylar.
Today, I finally got around to building an 1 1/4 oz. buffered lead load for turkey hunting.
I based it off the Bismuth load which I have good test data for. I backed off the powder 2 grains dropped the buffer 2 grains and a couple other small changes to get the wad column height correct and built 11 loads to be tested. I should be able to get them out next week sometime.
I loaded up an extra round and patterned the round using 5's. Very mediocre 40 yard pattern at 62%. So I tried 6's from a brand new bag of West Coast .......the load went 82% @ 40 yards.
I have no idea what the velocity is and I certainly don't know the other specifics of the load but it shows promise. BTW the choke I used was a full with .032" of constriction. It is a Briley Thin Wall choke system.
I am hoping I can get a velocity of 1150 FPS or so. I just need some solid P & V figures to know what I have.
If the load is good I will post the results. I also have a 7/8 oz. load using 700-X to be tested also. |
_________________ Mark...You are entitled to your own opinion. You aren't entitled to your own facts. |
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Posted:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:04 am
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Joined: 13 Oct 2014
Posts: 253
Location: North Shore of Boston
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A man after my own heart, thank you for your due diligence.
I wish you lived nearby as I have a chronograph. |
_________________ Bill K
North of Boston
Browning New A5 Sweet Sixteen circa 2019
Browning Citori Upland 16 GA circa 2014
Darne R10 1962
Browning Sweet Sixteen 16 GA circa 1957
Savage Fox Sterlingworth 16 GA circa 1934 |
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Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:11 am
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Joined: 13 Oct 2014
Posts: 253
Location: North Shore of Boston
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Please post all of your 16 GA loads as mentioned.
If this ammunition and reloading components shortage keeps up - I'll be down to homemade black powder, with toilet paper for wading, and finely graded pebbles for ejecta, and will need all the help I can find. |
_________________ Bill K
North of Boston
Browning New A5 Sweet Sixteen circa 2019
Browning Citori Upland 16 GA circa 2014
Darne R10 1962
Browning Sweet Sixteen 16 GA circa 1957
Savage Fox Sterlingworth 16 GA circa 1934 |
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Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:21 am
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Joined: 04 Mar 2019
Posts: 1844
Location: Central ND
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Bill K,
I have a chrono and the place to be able to use it. I just want data from a lab before I share the loads. |
_________________ Mark...You are entitled to your own opinion. You aren't entitled to your own facts. |
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