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Harry I purchased a 1916 vintage trojan. I shot a box of the 2 3/4 1oz winchester light loads that I purchased but there was evidence of excessive pressure on brass a I stopped. The RST ULTRA LIGHTS work great but too expensive. I'm trying to find a 16 ga conversion kit for a mec 600 I'm not using. Wondering if I should just try to find a used 16 ga mec.. there is one sporting clay facility still open here in RI..take care
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Jay would like to do that some day.. I live in harrisville and shoot skeet and trap pretty regularly at wallum lake rod and gun club
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04-03-2020, 10:26 AM | #15 | ||||||
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My 16g 2 1/2" load is as follows-
2 1/2" RST (Cheddite) hull 7/8 oz shot BP Sporting 16 Short wad 16.4g PB For a spreader load I cut an X-Stream insert in half and drop it in before I drop the shot. You may want to get a copy of Ballistic Products shotshell reloading manual. THOUSANDS of recipes in there. |
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Mike, just curious, why do you cut the X-stream insert in half? Does a whole one take up to much space for a good crimp? I have a bag of those, but haven't used them--bought them to open up my F/F Lefever G Damascus.
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Harold, a full X-Stream in the short shells even with the 16 short wads will prevent a good crimp. I found cutting them in half still makes a good, effective spreader load.
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Hey John, how's it going? Check out www.16ga.com -- lots of good info.
I shoot a 16 gauge Damascus Parker GH and have used the following load a lot for both clays and live birds: 16.3 grs of Unique under 7/8 oz of #8s I'm using new pre-primed Fiocchi hulls trimmed to 2 1/2” and Ballistic Products "Sporting 16" wads loaded on a PW 375 According to published data this loads runs at 7800 psi
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Ron, are you shooting 2 1/2" or 2 3/4" shells with that load?
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Thanks for picking up on that — 2 1/2” — I’ll edit my post
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