As I get older, I only hunt with a twenty, and try to only keep a handful of 7/8oz loads in my pockets. I still carry a Zippo, even though a BIC is lighter.

I carry a Zippo in my pocket every day . However my Zippo isn’t a lighter but rather a tape measure ! When I lay it beside my grandfathers old Zippos the lighter cases and the tape measure case match right up .

Interesting that you chose to carry a slug gun in that marsh as in that county you can use a rifle. You can see a long way in those marshes and a target could appear from 50-200yds.

Not on the Blackwater ! NWR gun regs are shotgun ML and I think handgun now . Dorchester county is rifle but not the refuge .

At the present I’ve got 25 new hulls and 25 already fired hulls . So I loaded one of each . Loaded a fired one first , only problem was getting it out of the depriming sizer station next time I’ll use Imperial Sizing die wax on the brass .

Also loaded three with 0000 buckshot . Tried the first without buffer and then two with buffer . Ten of the 0000 buck pushed by 31 grains of Clays . In the two buffered I also put an overshot card just to try and keep the buffer from sifting out the tiny hole in the middle of the crimp .

That is cool.

Thanks ! This was a first I had the press clamped down on the breakfast table as it’s a bit warm out in my shop LOL’s !

I’ve got 00000 buck already cast somewhere out in the shop just couldn’t lay my hands on them quick . I also have a pair of .415” round ball molds and a .775” ball mold coming from the old Tanner mold company in the UK . The .415 roughly equates into 000000 buck and the big boy I’m going to try as a punkin ball . Also bought a mold from a friend in Ohio , he’d had Accurate Molds cut it for an LC Smith 10 he had with no choke barrels , I cast with it before but only used it in my McFarland 10 gauge ML , but those slugs are also .775 HB and 730 grains they fit quite comfortably in the SP-8 shot cup . When the mold from OH gets here I’ll cast a couple dozen and give her a go .

I’ll try the 0000 buck for pattern this evening or tommorrow and if it does okay out to say 35ish yards I’ll cart it along Friday when we go damage control hunting . And who knows :corn: