12 gauge with Green Dot

[David Penland]

Anybody have a good 12 gauge 2 1/2” load using green dot? Thanks

[Andrew Sacco]

Anybody have a good 12 gauge 2 1/2” load using green dot? Thanks


This is all I have, and it's a spreader load. I worked it up and had it tested by Precision Reloading and the pressure/FPS are from their tests. Your bushing may vary this is what threw 19g for me. It shoots great and birds go poof inside 25 yards. My chokes are all M/F or M+/F

- MEC 600Jr Mk V
- Cheddite 2.5"
- Cheddite 209 Primer
- Dispersor X Short wad DX12S (Ballistic Products)
- 1oz #8 (1 oz bar)
- 19gr Green Dot
- #34 bushing
- 6702PSI 1224FPS

[David Penland]

Thanks Andy, I’ll give it a try.

[Mike Koneski]

[QUOTE=Andrew Sacco;391590]It shoots great and birds go poof inside 25 yards.[QUOTE]

If Andy can make birds go POOF inside of 25 yards that load has to be good!! :rotf::rotf::rotf::corn: Just sayin' for a friend.

[Andrew Sacco]

[QUOTE=Andrew Sacco;391590]It shoots great and birds go poof inside 25 yards.[QUOTE]

If Andy can make birds go POOF inside of 25 yards that load has to be good!! :rotf::rotf::rotf::corn: Just sayin' for a friend.

That's the kindest thing you ever said to me Mike!

[CraigThompson]

[QUOTE=Mike Koneski;391594][QUOTE=Andrew Sacco;391590]It shoots great and birds go poof inside 25 yards.

That's the kindest thing you ever said to me Mike!

Better get it chiseled in stone :rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf:

[Mike Koneski]

[QUOTE=Mike Koneski;391594][QUOTE=Andrew Sacco;391590]It shoots great and birds go poof inside 25 yards.

That's the kindest thing you ever said to me Mike!

Now I truly feel all warm and fuzzy inside!! BWAHAHAHAHA! In the words of Telly Savalas, “Who loves ya baby?”

[Matt Valinsky]

Just a heads-up. This concerns the Green Dot with the new green lid. Per Alliant, they changed the manufacturing process a couple years ago but not the formulation of GD to help make it burn cleaner. Since that change people have found that the velocities and pressures of previously Alliant published recipes have increased.

There is a poster over on the Upland Journal website who has tested a multitude of 16ga. recipes and apparently noticed that this indeed might be the case.

Any recipes that are a couple years old and that are being filled with the new green lid GD might want to be sent off to be tested.

Just passing this along for the sake of our old guns. It might be a good thing to go over to the Upland Journal reloading forum and give it a read and draw your own conclusions.

[David Penland]

Thank Matt, I will definitely look into this.