Old Reloading Manuals - 2 7/8" 10ga recipes
 

Does anyone have any old reloading manuals laying around? Seems like they would be a good source of hard to find short ten recipes, although some components are no longer available. I have a 1967 Hercules Powder guide coming I bought on Ebay and I am hoping to win some 1970's Hercules guides and a 1968 Hodgman Manual. Attached is scan from a 1997 IMR guide. I was surprised 57 primers were still available then.

I shot up a bunch of old Remington Peters 10 gauge 2 7/8" plastic shells I remmember going in the gunshop with my grandfather to buy in 1970 . And when I went to reload the hulls I found out they were for the 57 primer also .

57 and 157 primers can still be found. People occasionally turn them in for credit at the Kittery Trading Post and they resell them from their "junk" bin.

Do you have any old reloading manuals laying around with short ten recipes?

No the only thing I have with 2 7/8" loads is the BPI 10 gauge manual and their buckshot manual . And to be honest I don't use any of the loads they have listed .

To be totally honest I only have two loads !

The one I use , which I got from Reloader Magazine a few years back when Ross Seyfried did an article on his favourite loads . And it just so happened he has or had a W.&C. Scott 10 gauge with damascus and hammerless just like mine . So I use his load for 1 1/4 ounces of shot for just about everything !

It works out pretty well as I can load 1 1/4 ounces of whatever shot I want inside a SP-10 wad with a 16 gauge 1/4" fiber wad in the bottom of the shot cup and a .135" 10 gauge card wad above the shot . Pushed with 30 grains od SR7625 and lit with a CCI209 .
I can also leave out the birdshot , 16 gauge wad and the card and put twelve 00 Buck pellets for pretty much the same thing !

I have another load writtin down in my loading room somewhere for a 1 1/2 Ounce of shot in the SP-10 , a .135" card wad , Universal Clays and a CCI209 . Don't remmember how much of that off the top of my head . But to be honest I'm quite satisfied with the load I'm using at 1 1/4 ounces . And hopefully I can come up with a decent roundball that will fit inside the SP-10 and be safe in my old damascus gun !

I am trying to find more loads, particularly those that use more common powders such as Green Dot, Herco, 700X, HS-6 etc. I have shot lots of 32gr SR7625 loads myself but a Green Dot load is/would be much more cost efficient. My cost for GD is $20 a pound vs $27 a pound for SR7625. GD and 700X would be more reliable in cold weather as well.

I dunno it was snow on the ground last season when I used my 10 gauge load with twelve 00 Buck pellets to down a fat doe . Now granted in the New England states it will certainly get colder then here in Virginia . But that load did pretty well for me . Also in the late 2010 dove season it worked well and again there was snow on the ground . I think then the temo was between 22 and 30 . Thats by no means bitterly cold even in VA but it is below freezing .

I'm pretty happy with this load and Unique in my 16 damascus Parker . Now I need to move on to my like new W.&C.Scott 12 and 20 gauge damascus hammerless guns !

Also wanna work on single roundball loads in the short 10 and short 16 !

Back years ago shotgun reloading to me was all about loading enough shells quickly for a skeet or trap shoot the upcoming weekend :shock:

Now if I go shoot skeet I may shoot a couple rounds 10 or 12 times a year . And the rest to date has been for dove or buckshot for deer :whistle:

Pete , while we're at it do you possibly have a spread sheet for the 8 gauge ?

No I don't have one "yet" but it doesn't hurt to get yourself prepared before the fact :cool:

JB:
I'm letting a bit of the cat out of the bag here (regards an upcoming DGJ story of mine) but here are two loads that I use in a W&C Scott 10-bore:

Target: Federal case cut to 2 7/8, Win 209 primer, 21.1 grs of Clays, BP deci-Max with 16 ga. .135 card and 3/8 felt wads inside, 1 1/8 oz. of No. 8. Load is 1217 fps and 7640 psi according to Armbrust.

Hunting: 1 3/8 oz of No. 6 in same case, same BP wad, two .135 16 ga cards inside, 28 grs. of Int. Clays. 1246 fps and 10,100 psi by Armbrust.

Best Kensal

I have found two unopened bricks of #57 primers up here in Ak in the past 5 yrs. Couldn't mail them to anyone and didn't need them myself so didn't buy them. Sure was tempted.