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non toxic shot safe for 8 ga ?
Unread 08-22-2010, 08:41 PM   #1
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Default non toxic shot safe for 8 ga ?

Is non toxic shot like nice shot or ITX safe to shoot in 8 ga parkers ?

http://www.ballisticproducts.com/products.asp?dept=370

http://www.precisionreloading.com/mm...Code=NICE_SHOT

Does it load like lead ?.just want to know because UK banned lead for waterfowl to but not 8 ga guns or 4 ga or even 2's
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Nice Shot loads the same as lead. I been using it for a few years and like it. The verdict is still out on the ITX do to lack of reloading data.
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Do you load it for a 8 ga ?
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No, I load it for my 10 and 12ga. guns. Not lucky enough to have a 8 yet. Others here load for the eight.
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How many shells does 2 lbs of nice shot load for your ten in what charge of shot ?. Have you used it on waterfowl yet ?
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I load 1 3/8's because it fills the shot cup [25 shells + -] Get a roll crimping tool that fits in a battery operated drill and you can mark your shells with load and shot size. Don't want to shoot a box of nontoxic at crows, right Scott

Yes on the water fowl, that's all I use it for. It is pricey but when you get that ten dialed in, it will amaze you.
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i dont know if i will buy a old parker gun or not . Thinking about the zabala 10 ga and restocking it making it lil nicer . I have found a company that makes a more expensive sxs but for 20k i know someone who could build me a sxs 8 ga .Thanks for your number to but i dont ever make many phone calls .It will probably be a time before i get into reloading .I calculated though i could load 8 ga hulls with nice shot for 110$ box of 25 .That sounds like weatherby prices lol
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you would never wear that old parker 8 ga out shooting it....but if your like me you willwear it out looking at it.....there was a 8 ga parker listed on gunbroker auction site that looked like a good buy it was under 6000.00.... you can loadthose 8 ga with steel shot if you want too.i have loaded up steel bb shot for coyotes and such like...theres other shot out there besides that expensive stuff.... charlie....ps if i wanted me a 8 gai would go for it...we aint going to live but once...
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i will say probably by the middle of next year i will try to get one .If i hit the lottery i will have a westely richards drop lock ,take the rest of the money to buy a machine shop to make sxs 8 ga . You seen the cheap stoeger sxs shotguns . I wonder what it takes to start your own small arms company cant be to hard if you only make sxs 8 ga's either since they are obselete legally . I should take a machine class at college
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sorry i got off topic .I noticed that on parkers the area that behind the barrels dont know the name for it but they are 3x thicker than other sxs of the time .I thought that steel shot was unsafe for damascus barrels ? or any barrels made before 1950's ?
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