Two old guys, two old 10 Bores, 10 birds in the boat

[Gene Danielson]

10 bore Thank you for that info; I'll try your Bluedot loads. As an aside I tried some loads with Longshot but could not get patterns much above 50 %. The 4756 was giving me 70+%, but of course that was summer when I did my patterning. They were useless once season got going with cooler temps.


Thanks again

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Gene Danielson

10 bore Thank you for that info; I'll try your Bluedot loads. As an aside I tried some loads with Longshot but could not get patterns much above 50 %. The 4756 was giving me 70+%, but of course that was summer when I did my patterning. They were useless once season got going with cooler temps.


Thanks again

I am surprised that Longshot threw an IC pattern through what was shooting a full choke pattern with 4756. How many grains of Longshot and what was the charge weight? Were you using a plastic wad? Longshot can deliver some very fast velocities and bismuth doesn't react well to that.

[Gene Danielson]

Load had 30 grain Longshot, SP10 wad with cards and 1.25oz #4 bismuth. Speed maybe the problem as you indicated. Did not pursue loading Longshot any further because 12 ga bismuth loads I tried had similar poor patterns. The 12 ga loads were cataloged in the manual at 1250fps. Don't know speed on 10ga; not pressure nor speed tested.

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Gene Danielson

10 bore Thank you for that info; I'll try your Bluedot loads. As an aside I tried some loads with Longshot but could not get patterns much above 50 %. The 4756 was giving me 70+%, but of course that was summer when I did my patterning. They were useless once season got going with cooler temps.


Thanks again

i am getting 80 % pulse patterns with my loads, i do alot of testing. biggest thing is keep all filler wads under your shot , on top of it will open up your patterns.

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by scott kittredge

i am getting 80 % pulse patterns with my loads, i do alot of testing. biggest thing is keep all filler wads under your shot , on top of it will open up your patterns.

I havnt gotten around to patterning mine yet, I need to buy some nitro cards but then I will need to get those pressure tested. I have seen load data in other gauges where adding a nitro card increased pressures up to 2500 psi.

I have noticed with larger shot sizes a overshot card no longer sits properly but a 1/4" fiber wads does but who knows how that will affect patterns.