Located hard to get, B&P classic 16 shells

[Kenny Graft]

I just found and ordered some B&P classic 16 gauge F5 2 5/8 hunting loads in 5# and 7# 8 boxes in a case 115.00 ships free. go to: www.aerostaroutdoors.com These are premium hunting rounds.....have some left from 4-5 years ago. The company restructured and dropped them till now, they are great and I was getting low! They are in stock but quantities are limited, cases available. Great grouse loads for the old vintage guns. Other gauges are available too. thanks all SXS Ohio....(-:

[Paul Ehlers]

Kenny,

Do you know what the pressures are for these B&P loads?

I bought some of these a few years back. After shooting them I came away feeling that they were a pretty stout load judging from the recoil they produced after shooting them in several different guns. I decided not to order any more and have stayed with RST's. I've never had the perceived recoil from the RST's that I got from the B&P's. Don't get me wrong, I think B&P makes great ammunition. I just felt they were a little stout for the wood on my old SXS game guns.

[Kenny Graft]

The RST light 16 rated at 1200fps 1oz B&P rated at 1280 1-1/16th oz The B&P makes a nice hunting grade load for short chamber guns. If the gun is very light 5lbs 10oz then maybe the RST would be better choice. A gun that is 6lbs or better should be fine with the B&P load and do a little better job downing birds. Its nice to have a range of factory loaded ammo on hand....I own all sorts of 16-s from 5lb-10oz up to 6lb-8oz My modern CSMC Fox, Parker Reproductions and my Ithica Classc Doubles all can shoot Fiocchi HV loads 1300 FPS 1-1/8th oz. and also the old vintage loads from the 60-s 1 1/4 oz Max drams. I had bought a Fox SW from a feller who had 20 boxes of the old heavy field loads...I do not know if he was feeding the Fox with these...hope not! I bought all the ammo too. Now I have a big selection of that old shot-shell ammo....most is plastic hulls but some are paper. I'm a hoarder when it comes to ammo....(-: When I was a kid ammo was gold! We did not waist any of it. I still own ammo from them days! SXS Ohio

[Randy G Roberts]

Kenny,

Do you know what the pressures are for these B&P loads?

I bought some of these a few years back. After shooting them I came away feeling that they were a pretty stout load judging from the recoil they produced after shooting them in several different guns. I decided not to order any more and have stayed with RST's. I've never had the perceived recoil from the RST's that I got from the B&P's. Don't get me wrong, I think B&P makes great ammunition. I just felt they were a little stout for the wood on my old SXS game guns.

The B&P website shows this load at 720 bar of pressure. Not knowing what this represented in terms of PSI I googled a conversion on it and the web tells me this translates to 10,442 PSI. Yikes !

[Mike Poindexter]

The linked site shows the advertised velocity at 1310 fps--a little stout for my taste. I prefer the 1150 range in my vintage side by sides. Thanks for the post, however.